Sentence examples for while selling off from inspiring English sources

A buildup in goods inventories also helped, suggesting potential weakness ahead if companies lower production while selling off any backlog.

While selling off ancient monuments was never a serious idea, the privatisation of state assets has always been an integral feature of Greece's international bailouts.

They held the line on property taxes but paid employees handsomely, while selling off county property or borrowing mountains of cash to keep government chugging along.

Reed Elsevier has been building its position in digital products in recent years, while selling off print assets such as Variety magazine.

Kraft picked up Cadbury, of the European candy maker, in February 2010 while selling off its pizza business to Nestle a month later to help pay for the acquisition.

The dispute arises from a system dating to 1887, when Congress divided many tribal lands into parcels — most from 40 to 160 acres — and assigned them to individual Indians while selling off remaining lands.

Central bank officials are expected to increase interest rates three times this year while simultaneously selling off some of the trillions of dollars of Treasury bonds the Fed bought during the financial crisis to keep rates low.

The United States remains the largest buyer of Venezuela's oil, despite deteriorating political ties, but that long commercial relationship is starting to change as Mr. Chávez increases exports of oil to China and other countries while gradually selling off the oil refineries owned by Venezuela's government in the United States.

Now, Deutsche Bank, having avoided the ruinous losses of Citigroup, UBS and others, is seeking acquisitions, while Citigroup is selling off assets to shore up its capital adequacy ratio.

While DuPont was selling off buildings in the 1990's and cutting its work force, MBNA put up five buildings on the northeast side of Rodney Square and employs thousands there.

While Donnelley focused on selling off businesses from a failed attempt at diversifying several years ago, Quebecor was spending $1 billion retooling its printing plants and putting in new 126-inch-long presses, a third faster than the best Donnelley has to offer.