Sentence examples for normal business activity from inspiring English sources

Companies let criminals look legitimate and make their frauds, tax evasion or kleptocracy resemble normal business activity.

Mr. Song called the mines purchase a "normal business activity," and said he could take legal action against his accusers.

In recent years, banks have seen an excess of about $10 billion in dollar deposits and transactions that cannot be explained by normal business activity.

But it quickly slid into recession when the revolution wiped out tourism and normal business activity at the start of this year.

Commercial traders, like airlines or oil refiners that need to hedge their positions as part of their normal business activity, would be exempt from the position limits.

"But when there is this threat that could potentially paralyse the Central business district, when there is a threat that political action, in fact civil disobedience movements, I would call it, is threatening to disrupt the normal business activity of Hong Kong, and with it, the livelihood of Hong Kong's workers and their families, then we feel we really should be speaking up".

But there would be no storehouse, private or public, of telephone data beyond what the phone companies keep in the course of their normal business activities.

Ireland taxes corporate earnings from normal business activities at a rate of 12.5%, which compares with a standard rate of 27.5% in Italy.

"One who conducts normal business activities while ignorant that those activities are furthering a fraud is not liable for securities fraud," Judge Stanton said.

Liggett at the same time was forced to curtail all of its normal business activities and cut its advertising to the bone in order to sell at this price.

In America, the Fed reckons that this has caused profits to be overstated by an average of 2.5 percentage points a year over the past five years.There has also been a growing trend to take huge write-offs, and then announce pro-forma profits that supposedly reflect the firm's normal business activities.