Sentence examples for was very transactional from inspiring English sources

"Before that, it was very transactional," Mr. Gilvar said.

Dr. Steven E. Hyman, then the Harvard provost, recalls that the institutions' presidents — Lawrence H. Summers of Harvard and Charles M. Vest of M.I.T. — approached it from different angles: Dr. Vest saw it as a chance to build relationships, while Dr. Summers "was very transactional and impatient, like he always is".

John, an associate professor at the School of International Service at American University, said Trump's approach was "very transactional," a style that may have served him well in commercial real estate but will flop in international relations.

At Basel, it's very transactional.

"Unlike Jordan, I'm very transactional in my conversations," Mr. Stodel said.

His view of the media, like most politicians, is very transactional.

"Doug is very transactional," an unnamed senior Clinton adviser told Alec MacGillis for a profile of Band, published in The New Republic in 2013.

Q: Again that's very transactional.

"When you go to Amazon, it's very transactional," Fong said.

"The US tends to be very transactional with business engagement -- meaning people feel comfortable moving ahead with business matters without having established a relationship," said Darrell, who serves as Dow's Director of Product Sustainability Consulting.

The group of men who had had sex with a woman in prostitution without also having a transactional relationship or once-off transactional sex was very small (3% of the total sample) but constituted a quarter of men who had had sex with a woman in prostitution.