Sentence examples for harsh trade from inspiring English sources

We can know that success at work does not necessarily require harsh trade offs at home.

In discussions over the resolution, American officials threatened Ecuador, telling the country's representatives that the United States would enact harsh trade measures and withdraw military aid if Ecuador backed the resolution, the New York Times reported.

Rod Weston, a partner at Mazars, said: "The company has encountered difficulties due to the harsh trading conditions associated with the current economic climate.

Though you'd think someone with a fascination for classical antiquity, and a special admiration for an emperor whose harsh trade-offs apparently included arranging the execution of his own grandson, might have found plenty to test that theory to a natural breaking point.

The Dutch retailer struggling to emerge from an accounting scandal reported weaker unaudited quarterly sales, but its shares climbed on relief the firm had held up well in harsh trading conditions.

The Dutch retailer struggling to emerge from an accounting scandal reported weaker unaudited quarterly sales, but its shares surged on relief the firm had held up well in harsh trading conditions.

The global economy avoided a scrappy fight over who could impose the harshest trade measures.

Now, in a harsher trading climate for all airlines, he can enjoy the fruits of a policy that mechanically sets payouts at 50% of post-tax earnings.

"The prolonged nature of the global downturn makes this the harshest trading environment we have ever faced," said Willie Walsh, the British Airways chief executive, "and with no immediate improvement visible, market conditions remain challenging".

As a child working in the harshest of trades, Tom spends his days climbing up dark flues, "as much at home in a chimney as a mole is underground".

It seemed like a harsh but necessary trade off.