Sentence examples for on acceptable terms from inspiring English sources

But he was shocked at being unable to find financing on acceptable terms from big-name banks.

Support for a "British business bank" has been growing among businesses, which are increasingly exasperated by the failure of banks to deliver funding on acceptable terms.

On Oct. 13, the S.& P. 500 plunged 6.1percentt after a planned leveraged buyout of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, collapsed because the money could not be raised on acceptable terms.

But without an agreement on acceptable terms, "we had no option but to suspend all activity" on the expansion, Peter Robertson, vice chairman of ChevronTexaco, said in a statement.

The Asia Pulp and Paper Company of Singapore said it had canceled a proposed $378 million purchase of a Canadian pulp mill because it was unable to arrange financing on "acceptable" terms.

Now, having tried and failed to sell Time Inc. — home of iconic publications like Time, People, and Fortune (where I write a monthly economics column) — to Meredith Corporation on acceptable terms, it is spinning off the publisher as a separate company with its own stock.

Reasonable citizens, who want to cooperate with one another on mutually acceptable terms, will see that a freestanding political conception generated from ideas in the public political culture is the only basis for cooperation that all citizens can reasonably be expected to endorse.

James P. Bond, president of the Living Classrooms Foundation, the vessel owner, said the settlement was "on mutually acceptable terms".

Mr. Hughes said that difficult conditions in credit markets have "made it impracticable to obtain financing for this transaction on reasonably acceptable terms".

If Beijing sulks, obsessed with its problems in Tibet and with the Olympics, and manages to link them to a continued hard line on Taiwan, it will miss its historic opportunity to transform this longstanding hot spot into a source of stability and growth on mutually acceptable terms.

Due to confidentiality of the agreement, we are not able to reveal additional details of the contract, other than to say that it could not be completed on mutually acceptable terms and conditions by both parties.