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How to use the word tie-up in a Sentence?

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A retailer doesn't want to tie up their inventory dollars in products that aren't moving.

Simeon Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The full scale deployment would tie up a lot of capital with some uncertainties around the earnings potential, at this juncture we said to be the first one, does not make sense.

Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That's extremely disappointing, not only are people's lives -- including emergency services workers -- put at risk, the people who do these sorts of acts tie up police resources for the investigations.

Steve Gollshewski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are working on another German supply agreement which we expect to tie up this year.

Charles Lew

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That will send him down a path that for the next few years that would tie up his presidency in ways that are not in his best interests legally or politically.

Michael Zeldin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I heard the noise a lot and got asked that a lot about this (a tie-up with Didi), when you look at the growth we have, market share growth of 1 percent to one-third, and the efficiency we have achieved, our business is in a greater than ever position to continue the rapid growth.

Liu Zhen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Insurers want to see how much yield they get relative to the capital they tie up, and EM jumps out.

Yacov Arnopolin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If they want to have this debate, have it in a political arena, don’t enact ordinances that are blatantly unlawful, tie up local townships, expose them to liability, and tie up companies.

Kevin Moody

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a little bit optimistic to believe that you can define the moves in stocks purely on the basis on stock buyback activity, it's too neat a package to tie up and tie a little bow around of and say 'perfect.' I wish it were that easy.

Tobias Levkovich

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Olive Schreiner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

Ethiopian Proverb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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