Sentence examples for opening business from inspiring English sources

We could have opened it closer to the holiday and done bigger opening business, but the answer is that we've got $30 million in the bank so far.

On Saturday, 15 minutes into the sixth day of its soft opening, business was picking up.

When Lang Lang comes on stage it's with the gravity of an elder statesman: hand on heart, then extended in brief salute, before getting down to business - in this case Mozart's Piano Concerto No 42 in C minor K491, which he conducted mutely while waiting for Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra to finish their opening business.

In addition to the big names, there is a multiplicity of small names opening business in the Harlem area, people familiar with the neighborhood say.

The Redskins, opening business in Washington after five years in Boston, had moved into an office on 9th Street N.W. Boxes were stacked, furniture was being rearranged, and a black telephone was on the floor.

And in light of that, the fact that people have been resilient, that folks are still out there working, and opening business and, you know, working in the community, looking after their families, uh, taking care of their responsibilities, that's encouraging".

In the 1970s she helped the NCNW win grants to provide vocational training and assist women in opening businesses.

The people who live there have worked very hard -- planting trees and painting houses and opening businesses and forming block parties -- yet it looks much the same to me.

As the XFL's pre-opening business marches on, it insists that its credibility will increase and skeptics will discover its football to be an honest, more aggressive version of the N.F.L.'s, with such tweaks as: one foot inbounds for receptions, and no place-kicked extra points, fair catches or knees in the end zone for touchbacks.

And though the company has 65 employees and didn't have obvious openings — business is down for restaurants and hotels because of fewer customers — it decided that it couldn't spurn the Heartland Alliance's entreaty to assist.

On Wall Street and in Washington, data about product inventories, plant openings, business starts and employment are assembled into economic assessments, many of which report that the national economic recovery has sputtered and nearly stalled.