Sentence examples for sort of firm from inspiring English sources

Notwithstanding their unflattering, often lurid revelations, the sort of firm denials one might have expected have not materialized.

But Mr Duffie asks: "What sort of firm is General Electric?" (it has a big financial division).

Unlike Lehman Brothers, it was not the sort of firm that took on too much debt to buy assets that could later collapse in value.

Then, during the storm's peak of powerful gusts, there was a knock on the door, the sort of firm rap that announces the authorities.

The much hyped "AME [Annually Managed Expenditure] cap" sounds more like an aspiration for limiting welfare spending rather than any sort of firm ceiling.

Described by some analysts as "the sort of firm where even the scientists are used to punching time clocks", AHP has been trying to change its image as a stodgy merchant of over-the-counter remedies.

But these are exactly the sort of firms hit hardest by the economic downturn, and the people of Swindon are suffering as a result.

Why shouldn't those jobs come to India?The answer is that, set alongside other fast-emerging Asian countries, India has too few of the right sort of firms or workers and too many of the wrong rules.

Last month the government said it would lend these sort of firms £100m to help expand their own lending to businesses.

'It is more a sign of confidence that perhaps the tightness in the credit markets may be abating, and there are funds available for these sort of firms to continue on doing business," said Matt Lewis, a dealer at CMC Markets.

With small businesses finding it hard to borrow from banks in the current economic climate, the peer-to-peer lending has taken off and earlier this year, the government said it would lend these sort of firms £100m to help expand their own lending to businesses.