Sentence examples for serious margin from inspiring English sources

If you bought a summer house by pledging stock that has lost more than half its value, you are looking at a serious margin call.

"I am sure and have heard from others that his attempted stock sales were only attempts to stem serious margin calls," Ms. Stewart wrote in the first version.

A few serious margin calls could change that very quickly; the markup is four and five times what the winemaker sells it for, so there is a lot of fat in that price to be trimmed.

"As we wrote in late April, we are not at all confident in the company's underlying business fundamentals, and that came to light in the second quarter with the serious margin erosion across all sectors," Black said, reiterating her "underperform" rating on the company.

"If a company has good margin improvement on stagnant sales growth," he said, "management is doing serious cost-cutting or restructuring".

And there is no serious difference between margin and profit.

Not to whitewash the challenges ahead, however; Valspar, like the rest of the specialty chemicals industry, faces rising raw materials costs that put serious pressure on margins.

Theoretically, so long as the center of power remains unaffected, anything is allowed on the margins, where serious culture mostly operates (Russian pop culture seems not to ruffle any feathers, or maybe it doesn't want to, and television is firmly under the Kremlin's thumb).

Automakers have a huge problem: their fat rebates help them sell cars but are causing serious damage to profit margins.

This final one – he will step down this month – is by some margin the most serious, in that it has grave implications for the sport itself, not merely his own good character, which you don't have to submit to especially rigorous testing in order to find abnormal results.

In fact they turned up in larger numbers than in 2004, and their disproportionate Democratic margin made a serious difference, as did their hard work on the ground.