How to Use do business with in a Sentence

do business with

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  • Many of his old contacts from Sanyo wouldn’t do business with a no-name like Trek.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
  • But that does beg the question: how to set up one, and which company to do business with?
    — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And so what about finance and law firms that decline to do business with Black Rifle?
    — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That move has alarmed bankers who don’t want to do business with customers in the SEC’s crosshairs, people familiar with the matter said.
    — Rachel Louise Ensign and David Benoit, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
  • More than that, a strong mission has the power to motivate our teams, and inspire our customers to do business with us.
    — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • And some sought to split control of Washington to encourage, even force, the two parties to do business with each other.
    — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • People can also be levied fees that will fund the state’s General Fund, acting like a tax that only those who do business with the court will have to pay.
    — Ralph Chapoco, al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The willingness to leave one brand to do business with another has never been higher.
    — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • Others called for calm, however, warning that a bank run could harm the many companies who do business with SVB.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Suppose that a company in Peru wants to do business with a company in Malaysia.
    — Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Governments that adopted a hardball stance were often able to do business with Trump.
    — Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
  • First impressions are important and can make or break your chances with a talent agency or a venue trying to do business with you.
    — Kice Akkawi, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But as brands there to promote free speech absolutism, none wanted to be seen as unwilling to engage or do business with them.
    — Lisa Hagen, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • That much of the global film industry continues to do business with Putin’s Russia casts the public posturing of the past year in sharp relief.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The United States could punish countries that continue to do business with Russia.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 27 June 2022
  • Chinese officials, for their part, insist that they should not be forced to choose between Europe and Russia, and that China should be free to do business with both.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • An ever-growing number of employees want to work at a place that looks like that larger world–and customers want to do business with those companies.
    — Anne Chow, Fortune, 22 June 2022
  • At least four of Trump’s businesses have declared bankruptcy, and no major lender save for risk-friendly Deutsche Bank is still willing to do business with him.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Parle’s right to choose: Merely wanting to do business with Parle can’t get Udaan on the former’s distributors’ list.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 13 July 2022
  • Think of it this way: a reputable gold IRA will always only do business with equally fair dealers and custodians.
    — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The decisions were played as an attack on the Castro regime, but the real losers were entrepreneurs in Cuba who were desperate to do business with America.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 8 June 2023
  • John had established an entity called DF Ventures — also a plaintiff in the case — to do business with the Bakers’ ribs company.
    — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • Advertisers who do business with the city have plenty of options to advertise elsewhere, Schwab said.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2022
  • These are all really important things and being a company my customers want to do business with.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • American companies have a dismal record of kowtowing to do business with China, so cheers to Google for standing strong.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Even the most competitive Big Tech companies do business with each other.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 20 July 2023
  • But spokesmen for both companies said that neither currently do business with OTP’s branch in Moscow.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But many of China’s innovators were in the private sector, and those that sought to do business with the military often encountered distrust and red tape.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Students are calling for their schools to divest from companies that do business with Israel, among other demands.
    — Sequoia Carrillo, NPR, 7 May 2024
  • Twenty-seven percent of customers say belonging to a brand influences their decision to do business with the brand.
    — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023

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