Sentence examples for historic floor from inspiring English sources

Mr. Greifeld said he recognizes "the ceremonial value to listed companies" of the exchange's historic floor.

"This is also an historic floor, for what it's worth," he said.

Shortly before midnight, the committee completed its work and proposed the parameters for the historic floor fight, which will entail two hours of formal debate on the legislation.

On December 4th it tumbled to that historic floor, last seen in 1951, as the bank cut the base rate by a full percentage point, from 3% to 2%.The step had been widely expected in the City, but it still marked another extraordinary reduction in the official interest rate, which as recently as early October stood at 5%.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats put the finishing touches on their health care legislation on Friday, but failed to bridge an internal divide over the politically treacherous issue of insurance coverage for abortions, as party leaders and the White House pushed to lock in votes on the eve of a historic floor debate.

The developments consist of two conversions of older office properties to new uses, as well as the renovation of a historic trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade.

A strong jobs market report for October had already prompted traders to price in a December hike in rates from their historic 0.25 per cent floor and more piled into the trade on Wednesday.

"I can't believe this was covered with brown carpet," said the milliner Stephen Jones, looking down at the historic mosaic flooring, resurrected as the base for glass cases, which offer 20th-century opulence.

Using the historic five-floor Georgian town house to its fullest potential, not an inch of the space is squandered.

Over the last year he has scaled back the days the restaurant is open and reduced the number of seats in its historic sixth-floor dining room with its magical panorama overlooking the Seine, although he said he would increase the seating if the demand were there.

On a day of trading clouded by fears of a potential terrorist attack, John A. Thain, the chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, announced yesterday his long awaited plan to increase electronic trading that could diminish the historic role of floor traders.