Sentence examples for waves of firings from inspiring English sources

Marvel Comics had two waves of firings, and smaller companies like Valiant Comics folded outright.

COLLEGE basketball coaches have every right to be insulted by the wave of firings this year.

Sources with knowledge of the report and its consequences, who requested anonymity to discuss the findings before public release, expected a wave of firings and resignations across the leadership of an organization that Hoffman finds used its extensive institutional links to the CIA and US military to facilitate abusive interrogations.

The wave of firings may not be enough to stem Volkswagen's bleeding.

Everyday there seem to be warnings about possible terrorist attacks, waves of corporate firings and some new scandal involving a religious, political or corporate leader.

The result is a wave of abrupt firings as corporations move to stop perceived breaches of ethics that could result in law enforcement action, or public relations disasters.

Fehr worked as an unpaid adviser to help the union — then troubled by dissension and a wave of staff firings and resignations — rewrite its constitution and search for a new executive director.

CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned on Wednesday amid a wave of expected firings.

These larger waves of layoffs were preceded by a smaller spate of firings earlier this summer which saw 250 employees let go from the company's Waterloo R&D and product testing facility.

B3 OBITUARIES B11 EDUCATION B12 ARTS E1-12 Turmoil at Carnegie Hall The 109-year-old landmark has been swept by a wave of resignations and firings as its executive director, Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, prepares to present a strategy for change.

The size of an avalanche is defined (in the standard way) as the number of firings within the avalanche.