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Usage examples of sell.

The accounting for the two sides of the transaction-buying production payments and selling fixed-price contracts-followed different rules.

Worse, traditional accounting provided benefits to companies that sold winning positions while holding on to losers.

They were going to use the accounting rules and sell the plants to an entity created by Enron itself.

I had told Aley to meet me in the store that sold the Disney paraphernalia.

The Minister of War, in a barrack-square allocution to the officers of the artillery regiment he had been inspecting, had declared the national honour sold to foreigners.

He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improvements being made, inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold, and they enabled the government to sell the lands which could not be sold without them.

We got arrested shooting them off in a park and I had to sell off some shares of my old Mass Anal stock to pay the fine.

Your solution will be this: suspend the negotiations until your technician phones in, and then inquire of the Anarch as to whom he wishes to be sold.

So we Uditi still maintain that as an ownerless old-born the Anarch alone can legally sell himself, and we are now waiting for his decision.

He had been fired when the anatomist discovered him copying newly made diagrams to sell to other doctors.

The dairy company demurred to the regulation on the ground of its applying to milk produced and sold intrastate.

The contraband was invariably sold deep in the hinterlands, where dreams soured within weeks when it became clear just how tough it was to survive outside the enclosed comfort of an arcology, and nobody was going to question where sophisticated power hardware and medical packages came from.

In this case a North Carolina tax was assessed on the income of a New York corporation, which bought leather, manufactured it in North Carolina, and sold its products at wholesale and retail in New York.

But the syndicate members were bankers just like 518 KEN FOLLETT the Pilasters, and in their hearts they thought There but for the grace of God go L Besides, the cooperation of the partners was helpful in selling off the assets, and it was worth a small payment to retain their goodwill.

The frequent possession of Assientos by the Portuguese and Dutch in the first half of the seventeenth century also facilitated this contraband, for when carrying negroes from Africa to Hispaniola, Cuba and the towns on the Main, they profited by their opportunities to sell merchandise also, and generally without the least obstacle.