Sentence examples for salvaging about from inspiring English sources

Barclays picked up parts of Lehman from the bankruptcy courts, salvaging about 10,000 of the bank's 25,000 jobs.

While salvaging about two-thirds of the regular season may be good for the players and fans, the loss of so many games has come at a steep cost to some owners.

The education department estimates it could salvage about 160,000 jobs.

Altogether, the team salvaged about a thousand new letters and inscriptions from the Mechanism — doubling the number available to Price.

The plan to salvage about two-thirds of Swissair's operations by turning them over to Crossair, whose operating costs are much lower, has provoked political turmoil in Switzerland.

When I came to write my book Salvage, about siblings Aidan and Cass, reunited after a long separation triggered by Cass's adoption into a wealthy family, I realised that many of my favourite children's books examine the particular experience of adoption or fostering.

Paul Normand, chief executive of PDA Repair World in Houston, says his employees salvage about 80% of the phones they see with liquid damage.

Twenty-two hundred of the 6,600 single-family homes in the city went into foreclosure, according to AbleWorks, an East Palo Alto nonprofit that was able to salvage about one-third of its foreclosure cases.

But its songs — about salvaging love or hope from disaster — were well chosen for this concert.

Talks with its would-be rescuer Dynegy, also of Houston, about salvaging the deal ended in acrimony.

He muses openly about whether it is more apt to talk about "salvaging" the talks, "kick-starting" them or "breathing new life" into them.