Sentence examples for soft services from inspiring English sources
"The only concern is the soft services signings".
"We're the opposite of Sodexo," says Jérôme Tolot of GDF Suez: "They started in soft services and are increasingly moving into hard services.
When "soft" services like catering and cleaning showed signs of becoming commodities, Sodexo expanded into "hard" services such as building maintenance and energy management.
The Treasury now says that staff in "soft services" like catering and security do not have to be transferred to the private sector in PFI projects.
Likewise Vinci, a French firm that builds and runs infrastructure projects around the world, entered a new realm when it bought Faceo, a provider of soft services, in 2010.
Only the NHS, which is rebuilding hospitals, has a bigger pipeline of PFI deals.Until now most PFI deals have been for large capital projects such as roads, prisons and hospitals, where contractors have built a facility and then tagged on the provision of "soft" services such as cleaners and a maintenance man.
We present Ping Trunking, a novel edge-to-edge management technique that can provide soft service guarantees to aggregate traffic streams without requiring any special support at the core of the network.
The Treasury said this would include reducing wasteful energy consumption, mothballing surplus building space, and reviewing soft service requirements, "so that the public sector does not buy more than it needs when specifying facilities management such as window cleaning and frequency of decoration".
Yet social care, the poor cousin, continues to experience cuts as "softer" services silently slip from sight.
So-called soft-service ice cream was invented in 1939; it is served directly from the freezing machine without being allowed to harden.
The partially frozen ice cream is drawn off into packages and frozen solid, or "hardened". So-called soft-service ice cream was invented in 1939; it is served directly from the freezing machine without being allowed to harden.
