Sentence examples for flier from inspiring English sources

Batting at five and in around the halfway mark, his 49 not out saw his team home, getting The Outlaws' T20 season off to a flier.

Godleman and Stephen Moore got Derbyshire off to a flier, prompting the Essex captain James Foster to bring on Panesar in the 10th over.

But Stephen Moore and Billy Godleman are off to a flier, with 18 off the first two overs.

Skilful use of data allows companies both to spot which customers are worth fighting for (the frequent flier, the account holder with a big loan and a regular job) and then to offer them hefty discounts, to reduce the risk that a competitor will poach them.

Chevron's Mr Robertson says that taking a flier on a project with a long lead time and high investment is simply too risky for his firm.

You don't have to be a frequent flier to be potentially affected by a highjacking.

On June 3rd it said it would offer frequent-flier miles to viewers of specific programmes (who will have to complete a questionnaire to prove they watched).

He has clocked up 1.8m frequent-flier miles, and on one day on the Taiwan trip was up from 2.30am to 11.30pm, most of it in the public eye.

As you and others reported from time to time in the 1980s and early 1990s, this led to frustration among its institutional shareholders, unable to bully it into the myopic strategies that dug the graves of many British manufacturers.Now Rolls-Royce is indeed "Britain's lonely high-flier".

And since most airlines' conditions of carriage expressly forbid the practice, people who do it often enough to attract the company's attention can have their frequent-flier accounts suspended, miles voided and any elite status revoked.Yet despite these obstacles, the savings from a hidden-city ticket can sometimes justify these risks and inconveniences.

Just ask Mr Pérez Roque's predecessor, Roberto Robaina, likewise a high-flier until his dismissal in 1999.