Sentence examples for mess selling from inspiring English sources

Brought over from Kraft Foods in 1994, Lacy became chief financial officer and cleaned up Sears' credit card mess, selling off most deadbeat accounts.

Books about the mess sold like crazy -- everything from Woodward and Bernstein's best-selling All the President's Men to transcripts of the White House tapes to collections of Watergate "recipes".

It would be hard to make a complete mess of selling some of the government's prize assets.

Rarely has a club made such a mess of selling its greatest asset and they have dealt with Samuel Eto'o little better.

Gibson says the family should clean up its mess by selling their own cable operations first.

I guessed he might be asking questions about some of the black and north African kids who hung around the streets here, messing about and selling weed.

It was - predictably - something of a mess, but it sold reasonably well, and Lonnie was persuaded to go back on the road.

Fans reacted angrily to the suggestion, worried that such a scheme might turn the browser into "a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder"  (in the words of vice president Johnathan Nightingale).

What definitely won't happen, Nightingale promises, is Firefox turning "into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder; without user control, without user benefit".

Stone and Parker both strongly dislike Glass Parkerr, who was a music major in college, said, "I really thought you could basically tell a third grader to sit down at a keyboard and mess around and sell it as a Philip Glass album, and no one would know the difference".

Race also didn't play any role in the 2008 campaign in equal part because Obama ran an astoundingly measured, appealing, race neutral campaign that kept the focus squarely on the issues of the Bush administration's towering failures, the economy, the financial mess, and he sold a majority of Americans that he could bring a much needed directional change in government.