Sentence examples for small division of from inspiring English sources

Formed in 1985 as a small division of Countrywide, IndyMac started making loans in the 1990s and became fully independent in 1997.

BP Alternative Energy was given its own headquarters in County Hall opposite the Houses of Parliament two years ago and its managing director, Vivienne Cox, oversaw a small division of 80 staff concentrating on wind and solar power.

The Welsh had a small division of outstanding candidates and nothing was more moving than the testimony of Leigh Halfpenny, who came to the tournament straight from a perilous foot operation and on the eve of the semi-final misadventure against France spoke of his debt to his grandfather, a former Swansea player, who met him after school and took him for kicking practice.

The whole thing seems designed to demonstrate Wall Street at its worst: short-term profit being put ahead of the long-term health of the company (that's why this small division of A.I.G. made these massive bets which put the firm on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in losses); pay for not-performance; and a refusal to change even after everything has fallen apart.

Hence, from the foregoing, railway is a very small division of Nigeria's transport subsector.

The major studios are small divisions of international conglomerates, such as Sony and Viacom, and, as one studio head observes, the declining margins mean that "our owners don't need us to swing for the fences at all costs in hopes we can justify our existence.

Second, in cerebral convexity pain may arise from traction of small divisions of medial meningeal artery, rather than from the dura mater itself.

As Davout's men were progressing against the Austrian left, Napoleon formed the three small divisions of MacDonald into a hollow, oblong shape that marched against the Austrian center.

Specimen The smallest division of a material used to determine a measurement, e.g., a piece of a pot fragment or a standard cylinder from a lava drill core.

Pericytes are the mural cells of the smallest division of the vascular system, the microvessels.

These are the smallest division of the federal government and are the scale at which many extension activities are organized.