Sentence examples for true sales from inspiring English sources

True, sales figures fell at both Christie's and Sotheby's.

Subtract out all that, and the true sales price of the property was $460,000.

They were not true sales but Hawaii was paid to raise money for Enron by holding an asset Enron continued to control and benefit from, the report said.

What will be of interest to criminal investigators, however, is how often participants in the transactions failed to take actions that would be required if the deals were true sales.

Minutes of a 1997 meeting of directors on Enron's finance committee "strongly imply that Enron did not consider the transactions to be true sales and fully expected to retain control over the projects," the Senate report said.

(You might argue that this week's true sales winner is Fergie, whose solo debut, "The Dutchess," has now spent an entire year on Billboard's album chart; it currently sits at No. 6).

True sale opinions are issued in letters routinely written by law firms in connection with various types of financings.

Real estate professionals say the true sale price of the estate would surely be much higher, even in a depressed market.

"If Vinson & Elkins did know there was something wrong at Enron, they have much larger problems than true sale opinions," he said.

That, the government said, constituted a guarantee against loss, meaning that Enron's risk of ownership was never transferred, as would occur in a true sale.

Enron could not "use V.& E. due to conflict -- they provided some true sale opinions on some of the deals," the letter said.