Sentence examples for mere business from inspiring English sources

Some of the relationships go far beyond mere business.

But the issue is not a mere business spat to be resolved between Comcast and Netflix.

In the meantime, the lockout's depressing effect is spreading beyond mere business considerations.

LIKE so many other high-technology companies during the boom, MicroStrategy thought of itself as more than a mere business.

It was a telling choice of words — an utterance so evocative of gallant sacrifice and heroic last stands, yet made in connection with a mere business issue.

"A mere business relationship between parties dealing at arm's length does not give rise to fiduciary duties," Mr. Thibodeau's lawyers wrote, citing two examples of case law.

As investors scramble to get a piece of Facebook ahead of its initial offering, Mr. Zuckerberg wants to paint a portrait of a company with goals far loftier than the moneymakers on Wall Street — and certainly loftier than most mere businesses.

These pressures have made the steel industry a mere "conversion business", making wafer-thin profits, at best, by transforming ore into metal, laments Colin Hamilton of Macquarie, a bank.China's continuing economic growth offers the prospect of its excess capacity eventually being used up, if the central government can somehow restrain local authorities' zeal for new plants.

She wouldn't do a mere lifestyle business, would she?

John Hagins, a lawyer representing some of the duped investors, describes Carolina this way: "[It] depended on continued deposits to pay a return to earlier [ones]." The state attorney general's office suspected trouble at HomeGold as early as 1999 but was prevented from stepping in by state law that allows investigations only in cases of clear fraud, not mere bad business sense.

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