Sentence examples for was so proprietary from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bloomberg was so proprietary about the appointment, he personally chose the hour -- noon -- that it would be announced.

He brokered her lecture tours, book contracts, columns, product endorsements, and media exposure, and he was so proprietary that a rival of Earhart's described him as her Svengali.

"All the other companies drool over that contract, but it's so proprietary they feel they don't have a shot to get it".

One of the reasons he conceded for being so proprietary (aside from the nature of bakers) was that there is a fine line between a great doughnut and one that's average.

Open-source programming hero Linus Torvalds quieted techno-hecklers who were razzing an Intel engineer for being so proprietary about new Intel products.

The owners were so proprietary they wouldn't share the recipe with Jackie Kennedy when she wanted to serve it at the White House.

"I'm all for people building their dream houses, and I don't want to be so proprietary as to exclude new people.

Mr. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman whose advocacy for the proprietary trading ban was so fierce that his name was attached to it, told a Congressional hearing this year that with hundreds of trillions of dollars of derivatives being traded, "you have to wonder whether they're all directed toward some explicit protection against some explicit risk".

New mayors are so notoriously proprietary that the city gives them funds for home improvements.

Because there are so many proprietary moving parts we had to build from scratch, there are a lot of different ways to answer that question.

And some may wonder why the proposal's spotlight is so trained on proprietary trading and hedge fund operations, since these were not where banks experienced their greatest losses in the crisis.