Sentence examples for selective businesses from inspiring English sources

Jake White, a legal adviser to the green group, said the UK was prohibited from offering selective businesses a greater advantage as that being proposed for shale frackers over those searching for traditional oil and gas onshore.

Spending long stretches of time in Paris in his flat in Avenue Foch, he has become a member of France's most selective business clubs.

Stanford, the nation's most selective business school, does not even hold classes on Wednesdays -- which allows many of the students to hit the university's immaculate golf course.

But with Whitney's prediction of massive defaults -- astutely marketed during a 60 Minutes segment several weeks ago and repeated on selective business networks ever since -- the market has gone from worried to crisis mode.

Selective Retailing businesses operate in two segments: travel retail and the selective retail concepts represented by Sephora and Le Bon Marche.

One area of business that is not doing well is the company's selective herbicide business, which is declining as farmers switch to Monsanto's Roundup, in combination with crop plants that tolerate the broad-spectrum weedkiller.

The agricultural company Monsanto posted a wider quarterly loss yesterday and forecast fiscal 2008 earnings below Wall Street estimates, partly because of weakness in its selective herbicide business and a higher interest expense and tax rate.

And during periods of peak demand, like the current harvest season, the company is more selective about whose business it takes.

An executive of a leading consumer advocacy group called yesterday for the government to take a highly selective approach to protecting businesses against big losses from terrorist attacks, saying that terrorism insurance was widely available from commercial carriers.

Luckily for those of us who considered vacation an opportunity for selective sensory deprivation, the business people were usually busy with their golf games, children's games and meetings, leaving the pools and the beach to us.

Galli's mantra for managing Newell's international business is "selective globalization".