Sentence examples for retained business from inspiring English sources

This includes Revenue Support Grant, retained business rates, council tax and a number of special grants that authorities are free to spend as they wish.

Like Alaradi, the al-Darats have lived in the west – in their case, California – for most of the past 30 years but retained business ties to the UAE.

A retained business card and a telephone call put the Army and the Bee Alert team buzzing around the same blossom.

The retained business is cash-generative with long-term visible annuity streams generated from the Long Term Partnering Agreement, and although the UK defence budget remains stable, the procurement arm of the UK MoD (Defence Equipment and Support) continues to experience reform as it learns to operate as an arms-length trading entity of the MoD.

"When an employee shows that they brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars in new business or retained business that could have gone to a competitor, a salary increase of a few thousand dollars is justifiable and reasonable," says Palmer.

"We have in fact been very successful in retaining business".

(Federal law already prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials to get or retain business).

It was devised to punish the giving of bribes for obtaining or retaining business abroad.

The bill will create a specific criminal offence of bribing a foreign public official to obtain or retain business.

Under the corrupt practices law, companies are prohibited from providing bribes or other benefits to a foreign official to "obtain or retain" business in a country.

It said Stryker made the payments to get or retain business, but it recorded them as legitimate consulting and service contracts, travel costs, charitable donations and commissions.