Sentence examples for stock means from inspiring English sources

Appetite for Twitter stock means Costolo is now worth north of $500m.

A rapid expansion of the housing stock means fewer people living in the boondocks or in urban discomfort.

Heavy discounting led to margins falling and extra stock means further markdowns will be needed to clear stock this month and next.

"The sale of all remaining stock means that trading will now cease, resulting in the closure of the remaining [18] Zavvi stores by 20 February," said Ernst & Young.

Department officials say his recusal and his divestiture of company stock means that there is neither a conflict nor an appearance of one.

Also important, said Arthur Meyers, a partner at Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, in Boston, is the fact that 401 k)'s stuffed with company stock means many shares in friendly hands.

As Wine Spectator enthused: "Most of his wine is what he calls 'rolling stock,' meant for everyday consumption.

The trouble was, measuring things such as crime levels, transport efficiency and housing stock, meant that the most anodyne cities inevitably rose to the top.

Guglielmo Epifani, the general secretary of the Cgil public sector union, said the decrepit state of the rolling stock meant the Viareggio disaster was "a tragedy waiting to happen".

Even AT&T's vaunted offering of a new stock meant to track its fast-growing wireless operation has been a disappointment.

Unlike Reginald Owen in the 1938 Hollywood version, who came across as a stock mean person and then later as an abrupt and still stock happy person, Sim was psychologically believable as the bitter miser.