Sentence examples for harsh sales from inspiring English sources

Still, retailers have become so efficient at cutting inventories and reducing other expenses that many were able to sustain an earnings increase despite the harsh sales climate.

It seems a harsh sales pitch for recruiting believers, but as a leading figure in Tajikistan's main religious party, Mr. Husseinzoda presents the face of a new brand of Islamic politics here.

PepsiCo India's vice president of sales, Harsh K. Rai, also declined to comment on the lawsuit.

The long queues in the street are almost all in front of liquor stores now, since Mr. Gorbachev put harsh restrictions on sales and banished the usual vodka and cognac from official functions.

He said he would also close loopholes that prosecutors have long complained allow traffickers to avoid the harsh penalties for illegal sales of several guns at once.

A FEW weeks back, just after "Taboo" opened to harsh reviews, lackluster ticket sales and rumors of its imminent demise, a press representative for Rosie O'Donnell, the show's producer, proudly announced that the production was a success.

When The Good Life was published in 2006, it was met by harsh reviews and poor sales, but McInerney still felt a strong connection to his characters and the world he had created.

Although harsh weather held back sales, the trade group said there was more behind the poor figures.

The focus on stopping drug usage and sales through harsh sentencing laws, including mandatory minimum sentences, three-strikes laws and an intense focus on urban black neighborhoods for anti-drug efforts led to more than a tripling of the prison population in 30 years with substantial racial disparities.

In a runner-up transaction that presented yet another example of the year-end rush to consolidate luxury sales before harsher tax implications kick in, the lavish duplex penthouse condominium at the Park Laurel that had been owned by J. Michael Evans, the vice chairman and global head of growth markets at Goldman Sachs, sold for $23.75 million.

The growing trend stopped abruptly in July 1991 when the Brazilian government imposed harsh new restrictions on Cytotec sales.