Sentence examples for original franchise from inspiring English sources

Montreal lost its original franchise in 1982, then its replacement in 1987.

He stressed that ministers had made the original franchise award "without being told about the flaws and after being given inaccurate reports".

Under the original franchise, First would have been liable to pay £800m in premiums to be running the route next year.

But as the shopping conglomerate began to focus more on higher-margin intimate apparel and beauty products, executives at its original franchise found it harder to amass the cash needed for operations like an e-commerce business.

If you hadn't heard (as I hadn't) Assassin's Creed Chronicles is a three part spin-off of the original franchise, each set in a different historical location – 16th century China; Colonial India and Russiaa just after the communist revolution.

Barbon played one final season with the Kintetsu Buffaloes before retiring to a career as an interpreter, coach and front office official for his original franchise, today's Orix Buffaloes.

"While both of those films had genetic material in common with their original franchises, both were very, very original pieces".

The Hawks were one of the original franchises of the National Basketball Association NBAA) when the league was established in 1949.

The league needs a presence from its six "original" franchises in order to preserve the culture of the sport.

Then came the failed attempts by the new league management to expel two of the original franchises, Rajasthan and Punjab, for alleged irregularities.

The Knicks and the Celtics are part of the N.B.A.'s original franchises and their playoff matchups date back to the 1950-51 seasonlyonly a few years seasons after the birth of the N.B.A.