Sentence examples for surplus business from inspiring English sources

The combined authorities would also be given the right to retain all surplus business rate revenues above forecast.

Mr. Thomas, 28, is an auction services director at DoveBid, a company in Foster City, Calif., that conducts auctions of surplus business equipment.

It came to mind when I read "Bush's Task: Deciding How He'll Spend a Big Surplus" (Business Day, Dec. 31), which discusses George W. Bush's proposal to reduce all income tax rates in a way that would give most tax-cut dollars to the rich: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little".

"It was a craftsman or hobbyist's dream, Canal Street," Mr. Skoler said, remembering a time before the surplus businesses was replaced by souvenir shops and stalls selling designer knockoffs.

At RSA, he has raised £748m in a rights issue and sold off surplus businesses but has been under pressure to produce speedier results from RSA's biggest shareholder, Cevian Capital, chaired by former City minister Lord Myners.

Indeed Britain chalks up the world's biggest trade surplus in business services (see chart).If Britain is to retain its edge in business services, its companies will need to do more rather than less offshoring.

Overall operating profit, the cash generation surplus, new business profit and the capital cushion all showed significant improvement.

The bridegroom, 27, is the chief financial officer in the excess and surplus lines business of Argo Group International Holdings, a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance company.

Despite analysts believing Game this week finished its financial year with a net cash surplus, the business had nevertheless been heading for a breach of its borrowing covenants at the end of this month.

He calls himself a pioneer in "the surplus chemical business". Charles Colbert and his brother, Jack, who did more than half their highly profitable trade with government agencies, were speaking from Federal prison.

We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.