Sentence examples for strange paper from inspiring English sources

Last year, pop's Mr Bowie had to persuade his record company to guarantee investors' money in case his music fails to sell as expected before he could complete the $55m securitisation of his future royalties.Most of this strange paper ends up in the portfolios of pension funds and insurance companies which are willing to bear the risk in exchange for some extra return.

The web of transactions involving the company and its subsidiaries was large and complex, and one stock analyst stated in 1977 that he had "never come across a company that has so much strange paper on its books".

As fashion companies explore new ways to engage consumers online, some designers are embracing experiments that might sound strange on paper but are having unexpected results.

By the time it emerged that a lot of homeowners could not pay, these loans had been pooled with other loans and chopped into strange new paper assets that were sold to unsuspecting buyers around the globe.

Sure, a pale pink coat looked camera-ready for a first lady or princess, but the strange tissue-paper-like fabric dared you to touch it.

The sounds-strange-on-paper mishmash of the birth of America from the eyes of Alexander Hamilton, that random guy on your $10 bill best known for being the first person shot by a sitting vice president (and only one killed, since I guess Dick Cheney was just playing a prank or something), told in the lyrical stylings of artists like The Notorious B.I.G. and Jay Z.

Watch With Mother, with Andy Pandy going around the gardens, and that strange lady making paper lanterns with a model sausage dog helping her.

The Oval Space is a hipsterish, white-bricked cave of a venue, a strange fit on paper for musicians approaching their half-centuries, and a small one at that.

And it would be strange if the paper's coverage of Afghanistan, which has also been stellar, focussed entirely on things like Hamid Karzai's use of traditional Pashtun rhetoric in his effort to ride the wave of public anger at the Americans.

Which is strange, because on paper, DC has those "ingredients" for a high-tech ecosystem that so-called experts love to tout.

Stapel immediately admitted that there was "something strange" in his papers, Eijlander says, and "yesterday, he told me that there are faked data".