Sentence examples for guarded trade from inspiring English sources

The equations behind the operations of digital businesses are a closely guarded trade secret.

Fees in the private health care sector have been jealously guarded trade secrets among insurers and providers of health care.

The comparable fees paid physicians for commercially insured patients are jealously guarded trade secrets, but it is reasonable to assume them to be $100 to $200.

Its algorithm is a tightly guarded trade secret, but it relies heavily on linking search terms to noun phrases in a Web page — as well as the popularity of a site and how often other sites link to it.

If KFC's initial reaction seemed harsh, that is because the Colonel's Original Recipe, as it is known by trademark, is locked in a company safe and treated as a closely guarded trade secret.

Moreover, Mr. Torvalds made the case that open-source software projects like Linux -- where code is shared and openly published for all to see -- provide more visibility and accountability than the more closed realm of traditional propriety software, where source code is a closely guarded trade secret.

The Spanish guarded their trade routes jealously, and Mary could not condone illicit trade or piracy against her husband.

Their innovations were exceedingly difficult to reverse-engineer and thus were successfully guarded as trade secrets.

Katherine Mills, one of the few women members of the Magic Circle, the jealously guarded elite trade organisation, said her friends were incredulous when she left university with a psychology degree and took up full-time magic.

The exact ways that these numerical scores are derived has been almost as closely guarded a trade secret as the formula for Coca-Cola, even as the use of credit scoring has become widespread in the last decade.

But critics say that the relationship between fracking fluids and groundwater contamination has never been thoroughly studied — and that proving a link has been made more difficult by oil and gas companies that have jealously guarded as trade secrets the exact chemical ingredients used at each well.