Sentence examples for system businesses from inspiring English sources

In a market system, businesses and consumers have a clear incentive to reduce their carbon use, and they can choose the cheapest way to do so.

Over the past five years, the government has quietly liberalised the work-permit system: businesses, which used to have a tough time getting permits for foreigners, now find that applications go through pretty much on the nod.

And in a report unveiled on Wednesday, the city's Transportation Department says it has identified another benefit to pedestrian plazas, bike lanes and a rapid-transit bus system: Businesses that operate nearby have seen a pronounced bump.

Under a command-and-control system, businesses and consumers have to focus not just on carbon use but also on the details of the government's rules: the intricacies of vehicle and building standards, the types of appliances that qualify for subsidies, the fine print of the Energy Department's loan applications.

The first would require a reorganization of Microsoft, pursuant to a detailed plan to be prepared by Microsoft itself, into two separate, independent companies; one would own Microsoft's operating system businesses, and the other would own its applications and other businesses.

Elsewhere, fourth-quarter earnings soared at Boeing, thanks to strong orders for its commercial airplane and defense system businesses.

Its desktop Windows operating system business was about flat compared with the year-earlier quarter.

Mr. Johnson was also in charge of Microsoft's Windows operating system business.

Across Indonesia's political party system, business elite and state institutions, a generation of former Suharto loyalists still holds sway.

This was intended to create immediate competition in the operating system business, and the states joined in advocating the idea.

"As of last week, Oracle essentially got in the operating system business," Mr. Beach of CIO magazine said.