(1) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
(2) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(3) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(5) Perhaps local governments could contribute a proportion of the asking price of a house if it is to be sold to a local who will actually live in it?
(6) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(7) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(10) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
(11) The four other works were sold at auction at Christie's and disappeared into private collections.
(12) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(13) She, and three other captives, were told that if they didn't pay $10,000 each within a few days, they would be sold to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai.
(14) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The flat in Crouch End, north London that Linda Grant bought for £92,000 in 1994 and sold for £660,000 last year.
(16) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) Since 2006, some charities have sold donated goods as agent of the donor and then written to the donor, asking if they wish to give the proceeds of sale to the charity.
(19) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(20) When Hussain gave him a camera and told Cromitie to reconnoitre targets, he promptly sold it.
Undersold
Definition:
() p. p. of Undersell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Never knowingly undersold is a weak motto unless it includes never knowingly underpaying a workforce.
(2) As pathologists, it would appear that we have really neglected this powerful tool in recent decades and have undersold the potentiality of this method.
(3) One of the singer's promoters "categorically denied" claims that the shows were undersold, telling Peru's El Comercio that all the gigs were at least 80% sold out.
(4) Nick Bubb, an independent retail analyst, said John Lewis’s never knowingly undersold price-matching scheme was also likely to have cost the company profit margin as discounting across the market increased ahead of Christmas.
(5) John Lewis is running a one-day Black Friday sale in stores and online partly because Apple will be offering discounts and its "never knowingly undersold" price pledge means it must match cheaper prices elsewhere.
(6) These are skills which are marketable but which, in many cases, are being grossly undersold.
(7) Concentration possibly affected by the sheer number of leading clubs apparently queuing up for his services, John Stones slightly undersold Tim Howard with a backpass along the goalline and the goalkeeper was fractionally slow in coming out to meet the ball.