Sentence examples for stern business from inspiring English sources
The album is stern business, but also graceful in its subversions, often even sumptuous.
He also served as a stern business adviser to the fiscally carefree Hughes, and at times as a tough critic.
The astonishing discipline and drive Tyson once put into "the stern business of pugilism," to quote the boxer Jack Johnson, is now being channeled into the business of leading an ordinary, even humdrum existence.
Merchant, 45, a graduate of Stern business school in New York, who has Indian and British nationality, worked for Barclays in London and later in New York, earning £2.2m in pay and bonuses for 2007.
A reluctance to borrow may limit growth in good times, but it can make family firms more resilient when the going is tough.They also tend to have better labour relations, according to studies by Holger Mueler and Thomas Philippon of New York University's Stern business school.
Pankaj Ghemawat, of Spain's IESE and NYU's Stern business schools, calculates that only 12% of the world's Fortune Global 500 the largest corporations by revenue are led by a CEO who hails from a country other than the one in which the company is headquartered.
The annual shore walk was also a reaffirmation, members said, of the idea that environmentalism should not always be a stern-faced business of advocacy and hard science, but also a celebration of the things that are to be protected.
It circumvented Brookfield and triggered the collapse of the stern-wheeler business that serviced rural communities.
The Accompli is the older, sterner, all-business version of the V100.
Bruce Buchanan is an associate professor of marketing at the Stern school of Business, New York University, where he specializes in marketing research.
This week, echoing that era, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a stern warning to businesses not to use the crisis as a pretext to fire people.Having pumped vast sums of public money into banks, European governments are trying to encourage them to continue lending to businesses on favourable terms.
