Sentence examples for quaker from inspiring English sources

Use this renovated Quaker cottage as your base and explore the nearby hills or visit Mount Usher Gardens (00 353 4044 8206; mountushergardens.ie).ie

She is the chief executive of the Barrow Cadbury Trust, an endowed foundation which has strong Quaker roots and works through a variety of means to achieve socially just structural change.

Despite its provincial Quaker roots, Cadbury has proved a master of reinventing itself, first joining the British establishment (moving its headquarters from Birmingham to London's Berkeley Square) and then joining the global corporate establishment (moving once again to an anonymous London suburb near Heathrow airport).

Now somebody else may buy it although on November 23rd, France's Danone ended its own pursuit of Quaker.

"Paternalistic companies like the Quaker groups of Cadbury and Fry survived and prospered in the 19th century by treating their workers well .This is a key part of the campaigners' argument.

Yet, as Mr Sunderland points out, Rowntree was also a 150-year-old Quaker company with a stable of brilliant brands, but "was sold out [to Nestlé] by the investment managers in ten minutes".

An American who infused an ancient, Quaker-founded British institution with the highly paid, highly competitive ethos of Wall Street investment banking, he was described by Lord Mandelson, then the business secretary, as "the unacceptable face of banking".

His mother was an Irish Catholic, his father an English Methodist-Quaker.

On Halloween night a friend of mine, dressed as a Quaker Oats carton, sat on a curb for a quick nap and was cited for disorderly conduct.

The little girl was a success right away, appearing in television advertisements for California Raisins and Quaker Oats.

AS THE board of Coca-Cola met on November 21st to approve the $15.8 billion acquisition of Quaker Oats, owner of the Gatorade sports-drink brand, one member asked Coke's chief executive, Douglas Daft, whether he was staking his job on the deal.