Sentence examples for plain operating from inspiring English sources

Not so at other companies, where synthetic leases may be swept under the rug with such murky phrases as "tax-retention operating leases" or just plain "operating leases".

Lula, short and plain, operated on an unpredictable schedule, liked to have fun, and would rather hug than hector.

It alleges that they were "fully aware" of how Think Finance and Plain Green operated, and that they "knew that the practices violated the law" before they decided to invest. .

As her roving, restless camera makes plain, Eastover operates in collusion with the Harlan police, who look the other way when its representatives start taking pot shots at miners (and Kopple herself).

We used remotely sensed fire data to assess if the Flint Hills—a landscape of tallgrass prairie in the Central Great Plains, United States is operating beyond fire frequency thresholds.

Moreover, Syria continued to thwart the UN's investigation into the assassination of Lebanese PM Hariri, accelerated a covert nuclear program (conveniently taken out by Israel) and refused to shut down terrorist operations against Israel emanating from terrorist storefronts operating in plain view in downtown Damascus.

Thatcherite culture celebrated the chancers and the semi-crooks: people who had been shunned in the solidaristic working-class towns became the economic heroes of the new model – the security-firm operators, the contract-cleaning slave drivers; the outright hoodlums operating in plain sight as the cops concentrated on breaking strikes.

The director of the Clean Carwash Campaign, Henry Huerta, said carwashes across the city were guilty of abuse, calling them "sweatshops operating in plain site".

Words mean a lot to Fabolous, the Brooklyn rapper who even after four albums and several hits still thrives at the margins, a cult figure operating in plain view.

In recent weeks the tax campaign has hit marinas along Italy's 8,000 km coast, with the Guardia di Finanza operating in plain clothes or uniform onshore.The summer's blitz has brought a sharp fall in business in Italian marinas.

Science has exposed a thriving academic black market in China involving shady agencies, corrupt scientists, and compromised editors many of them operating in plain view.