Sentence examples for off the executives from inspiring English sources

BORAT WILL NOT BE EXECUTE Did "Snakes on a Plane" scare off the executives at 20th Century Fox?

Y.& R. also made overtures to Saatchi & Saatchi, but those talks never took off, the executives said.

While Hilton's management had discussed what to do if the recovery is three to six months off, the executives decided that it would not significantly affect costs if they were more optimistic, Mr. Bollenbach said.

Before its collapse in 2000, Mr. Fujimori's government had tried to ensure positive media coverage by paying off the executives of the biggest television stations and the stars of TV's most popular shows.

At the end of August, an unrepentant Mr. Schneiderman was kicked off the executive committee of attorneys general in charge of the case by its leader, Tom Miller, the attorney general of Iowa.

It was under President Obama that the government signed off on the executive bonuses for TARP recipients and under Obama that no executive was punished for criminal malfeasance.

But at the climactic moment, that time-honored symbol of good faith got the kiss-off; the executives lightly bumped their fists instead.

"We're projecting increased hiring that's going to take some of the pressure off some of the executives".

A vice president (at a meeting of the executives) took off his diamond ring worth $3,000.

"They learned all the bad tricks here," Carlos Salas, a food stand vendor who himself admits to paying off municipal inspectors, said of the executives of Wal-Mart.

Within a few days of that article, an editor informed Mr. Jin that the deal was off because the executives at the publishing house feared controversy, said Mr. Jin.