Sentence examples for mammoth firms from inspiring English sources

When these mammoth firms, and others, came to Jersey City in the 90's, "the market was hot as a pistol, with virtually no vacancy," Mr. Donahue said.

That excites those who foresee the industry consolidating into a few mammoth firms, or those simply feverish from the surge that carried gold briefly to $437 an ounce this week.

The usual suspects contributed to this year's ignominy: a low percentage of singles, an anemic job growth rate despite mammoth firms like Alcoa, PNC Financial Services, HJ Heinz, Mellon Financial and United States Steel –a poor showing in our reader poll, and, well, lack of cool.

But in this age of diminishing expectations, mammoth media firms seem a tad antediluvian: Witness the pressure on companies like Time Warner and Vivendi Universal to split up and spin off.

The funding comes from new investor Technology Crossover Ventures — the firm behind mammoth investments in Vice, Spotify, Minted, Swagbucks and in earlier days Facebook, ExactTarget and many more — and existing investor Accel.

It lacks the mammoth balance-sheet that oil firms maintain to manage the huge risks in oil exploration.

Browne's firm is no stranger to mammoth foreign partnerships the company has plowed $14 billion into bolstering its TNK-BP joint venture in Russia since 2003.

British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted Saturday that he bungled his admission of his investment in an offshore fund revealed in the mammoth data breach of a Panama law firm.

This week's mammoth bid by Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil firm, for BG Group may prompt further consolidation among Europe's struggling oil and gas firms.Non-European buyers are also sniffing around, in part because fears that a Greek exit from the euro might send shock waves across the region seem to have subsided.

By assuming a share of the liabilities of many different insurance firms, reinsurance firms make it possible for mammoth claims following a storm or earthquake to be paid without bringing down the insurers that issued most of the policies in the affected area.

Representatives from the government, EDF and China General Nuclear Power (CGN) – the French firm's 33.5% partner in the mammoth construction project – are expected to attend.