Sentence examples for promoting friends from inspiring English sources

Its management of ITV Digital, a pay-TV service originally launched in 1998, was a disaster.ITV argues that there are real benefits to gain from promoting Friends Reunited on its TV channels and vice versa.

Mr Tirole groups these into four categories: insufficient effort; extravagant investments; entrenchment strategies (actions, such as anti-takeover "poison pills", that are costly to shareholders and make it harder to remove managers); and self-dealing (from legally consuming perks to promoting friends or even outright theft).

In a letter sent to Mr. Karzai late Thursday, the seven senior members of the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency accused the new head of the agency, appointed two months ago, of disregarding proper hiring procedures and instead promoting friends who shared the same tribal or ethnic allegiance or belonged to the same political party.

Part of the problem, as always in Italy, was a nepotistic system that promoted friends instead of professionals.

Mr Thaksin, after all, has been careful to promote friends and relatives to the top ranks.But it is this concentration of power in Mr Thaksin's hands, argues Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Chulalongkorn University, that has helped galvanise opposition among middle-class Bangkok residents.

Many of them are just an excuse for the writer to promote friends or people they like who also happen to exemplify the characteristic in question.

It also promotes friends going to the gym with one another, rather than alone.

The meal would generally be set up by an organization wishing to laud or raise money for politicians, newly promoted friends, or celebrities.

JR: I always had a home recording studio, and I love the idea of mixing music and radio theatre, and having that ability to promote friends and do things on the spot and have it not be so performance-based, but more laid back, and seeing what you can find in those moments.

Tell your newly promoted friend that you know the relationship will have to change; this could ease any anxiety, he said.

In a lengthy evidence session before the Commons Humans Rights committee, the commissioners accused Phillips of promoting his friends inappropriately, and chasing newspaper headlines.