Sentence examples for franchise operating from inspiring English sources

But at last week's scouting combine, general managers spoke of operating as if the usual rules were in place, franchise operating budgets standing in for the salary cap.

Thames Trains has lost out to FirstGroup to run a combined franchise operating local and inter-city services from London Paddington to the Thames Valley, Wales and the West Country.

Berkshire "is the only truly AAA monoline franchise operating today, and, if its weaker balance competitors are going to capture business, they will have to do so on price and terms and conditions," says Rob Haines, an analyst at CreditSights.

Primarily using a franchise operating model, IHG's 3,400 hotels in the Americas include brands like InterContinental (165 hotels), Crowne Plaza (400 hotels) and Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express, their largest brands, representing 75% of their rooms.

The losses — the club's falloff in revenue was the largest year-to-year decline for any major league team in recent years — are certainly jarring for a franchise operating in the nation's most lucrative market.

Lorenzen Wright had 19 points and 15 rebounds, Pau Gasol added 16 points and Jason Williams scored 13 for the Grizzlies, seeking their first victory as an N.B.A. franchise operating in Memphis.

But many did not know that their community UPS Store was a franchise operated by a local owner, she said.

Since Groh quit, Parcells has acted as Johnson's tutor in the intricacies of how the franchise operates.

But while there is some open access rail competition on the east coast main line, the west coast long-distance rail franchise, operated by Virgin, faces none.

Southern, part of the wider franchise operated by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) since 2015, has seen industrial disputes and staff shortages piled on top of major engineering works – and suffering passengers have had enough.

Like Bomben, he supported the idea of an NPL team that represented the Far North, indeed he was briefly on the board of directors but resigned after not being able to reform the way the franchise operates.