Sentence examples for losing venture from inspiring English sources

"Poetry is a money losing venture," chimed in Halahuddin Bahri, whose day job is advising the finance ministry.

The company constructed it in 1902, operated it continuously until April 30 , 1921 and then discontinued its operation because it had proved a losing venture.

The owner declined journalists' requests for interviews, but some in the know wrote on their blogs that there was nothing political about the decision: The owner had just grown tired of financing a losing venture.

According to family legend, my grandfather and his brother, after realizing that they were knee deep in a losing venture, released their nutria in western Washington State in the early 1960's.

When Sommers returned stateside, the retail executive pursued an MIT Sloan Fellowship and applied the knowledge learned in higher education at a new position in which she headed up Victoria's Secret Direct a losing venture that soon became profitable under her leadership.

H&H Imports is, as the Post put it, "a money losing venture," that in May merged with TVGoods, a marketing company started by Kevin Harrington, the entrepreneur from the ABC show 'Shark Tank.' Its stock was at $0.10 before the tweets began, and is now at $0.39.

An oligarch may be directed to invest in losing ventures, such as a media outlet the Kremlin wants to be neutralized, or allowed to invest with profit.

Recently Transworld unearthed the lost Venture video from 1991 and it got me feeling all sorts of misty-eyed.

"What counts is what happens on the field," he explains, and on this subject Larry points a finger of blame at a target few on losing teams venture near.

It does not seem to occur to Strassels that an investor who has enough money to throw at a losing business venture might not wish to manage apartment houses.

Whether they win or lose, the venture capitalists will have helped to oil the wheels of Europe's huge restructuring.