Sentence examples for it has run up from inspiring English sources

In time, "we will have a pan-European rate".Unilever managers may take longer to do the sums than the sharp young consultants at BCG, but as the American consultancy has built up its foreign business, it has run up against the same dilemma.

In the past four years, it has run up accumulated operating losses of £130m.

But it has run up losses, struggling with the continent's banking infrastructure, overambitious plane orders and office costs.

Too many times, though, it has run up against corporate pressure applied through Congress, not least in the case of special-purpose entities, the trick that Enron used.

The Arab Spring is not necessarily over, but it has run up against dictators willing to use lethal force to preserve their power.

He predicted last year that the company would have annual revenues of $1 billion within five years, but it has run up steady losses to date.

It had run up unfunded liabilities of 2 trillion naira ($12.9 billion).

It had run up a £3m loss on income of £30m, and drained its financial reserves.

Rather than cutting the fiscal deficit it had run up in to offset the effects of the global financial crisis, the government kept spending freely.

In 2006 staff at ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, were put under house arrest after the firm was blamed for foreign-exchange losses it had run up (though a subsequent report by government inspectors held the central bank responsible).

Meanwhile, in New York, the former Congressman started Coelho Associates, a financial advisory firm that shut down in 1997 after it had run up more than $1 million in expenses and brought in no business.