Sentence examples for humble enterprise from inspiring English sources

The effort to understand the natural world is not a humble enterprise, and neither should it be.

Poor Comcast — a humble enterprise "founded as a small company in Tupelo, MS," as Cohen writes — is now besieged by competition from Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Tim Cook, the mighty Verizon, and a reborn Ma Bell.

Potanin tells FORBES that he and some colleagues from the ministry set themselves up in business with $10,000 in 1990 to handle the foreign trade of relatively humble enterprises in fields such as agriculture and construction.

Started decades ago by Anjuna's hippie community (for whom it was a vital form of income), the humble local enterprise has mushroomed into a sprawling international affair.

Was the man waving a bouquet of flowers holding onto an inner vision of building a much larger business by learning to hustle no matter how humble the enterprise?

Small enterprises are dominant.

It is my favorite line in the film, not only because it registers the final humbling of adult enterprise but also because Keys sounds like a casting director — glad that Spielberg had met Henry Thomas, just the kind of normal boy you would choose to represent the planet.

The humbling of BP, one might say, made the enterprise less humbling.

These issues are illustrated in the case of Africa's largest bed net manufacturer, A to Z Textiles – a family-based Tanzanian enterprise that grew from humble beginnings to become a major bed net manufacturer.

The humbling of the great nobles, an enterprise in which he was sustained by the lesser nobles, became necessary.

(MGM Blu-ray/DVD Blu-ray/DVD.99; DVD, $29.98; PG-13) DUcomboNASTY: SEASON 2 The continuing adventures of Louisiana's Robertson family, which turned a humble duck-call manufacturing business into a multimillion-dollar enterprise.