Sentence examples for obtained business from inspiring English sources

A defining trend of the now subsiding Net stock frenzy involved deals in which Internet startups obtained business from companies related to them via share ownership and back-scratching deals.

Then, as now, the company had a strict rule against making illegal payments to obtain business.

A. We usually frame it in the context of obtaining business with a sense of urgency.

Since Austria joined the European Union in 1995, young artists have been taking advantage of government incentives to obtain business licenses.

It is concerned a Howden subsidiary in an emerging market may have been embroiled in "irregular payments" to obtain business.

The United States attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said Mr. Davis had lied before a grand jury, which was investigating whether the insurance plan executives made kickbacks to union officials to obtain business.

Before making these payments, according to the attorney general, Carlyle/Riverstone had only limited success in obtaining business from the New York State pension fund.

Federal regulators have cautioned that such upfront payments might be construed as illegal kickbacks if they were used to obtain business.

A sum of £29.5m was now due to be paid to the Tanzanian people – "the victims of this way of obtaining business", said the judge.

"I made these phone calls with the understanding that my efforts on behalf of these people could assist them in obtaining business from these government agencies.

In Oakland, nearly 300 individuals and businesses have listed themselves as "interested parties" to obtain business permits to sell or grow marijuana.