Sentence examples for sheets meant from inspiring English sources

But some analysts said the banks' reluctance to clean up their balance sheets meant they were merely postponing their day of reckoning.

The mythology of the happy ending has endured ever since, kept alive by the popping up of one baby store after another, uptown and down, each with its flax bassinet sheets meant to suggest that fate chicly assumes the best.

After almost three days, we were both relieved, and I asked the marine if he would like a shower and a good night's sleep, between sheets (the sheets meant a lot).

Consider the tasks that followed: the turning away of the blood donors, the rolling back of the empty wheelchairs and stretchers, the folding of winding sheets meant for bodies that never arrived.

Quote sheets mean that work quoted is documented correctly and when staff attend the job they know exactly what work needs to be undertaken and what equipment is required.

The collapse in the availability of loan finance as banks struggle to repair their own balance sheets means that companies looking for capital to expand are likely to consider alternative sources.

The amount of assets expected to come to the market, as well as the rising levels of loan defaults currently on banks' balance sheets, means investment opportunities in Europe will rise for private equity firms, he said.

That's necessary because you can't just measure sea level change in a single place and get a global picture — over long time periods, factors ranging from whether land is rising or sinking to changes in ocean currents and the gravitational pull of the planet's ice sheets mean that different regions can see different amounts of sea level rise (or fall).

"Nice-looking data sheets mean promotion opportunities," it said.

Of course, boosting their own balance sheets means weakening the corporate ones.

"The clean sheets mean a lot to the back four and the goalkeeper.