non-cyclical

We have been developing non-cyclical businesses like buses, auto parts and defense for quite some time.

Ashok Leyland Profit Jumps 34% Nikhil Gulati 2011

Some investors may want to gain exposure to non-cyclical equities by investing in the Lyxor Stoxx 600 Personal & Household Goods or the ComStage Stoxx 600 Food & Beverage index.

Inflation Bites Javier Espinoza 2011

Moody's argues there has been a "sustained and non-cyclical erosion of confidence" in highly indebted sovereigns.

Rome's Rating a Warning to Europe Richard Barley 2011

In comparison, consumer goods and pharmaceutical companies are "non-cyclical" because people will continue to buy toothpaste and drugs no matter what the economy is doing.

How to be Warren Buffett in India 2010

"The government's plans for non-cyclical primary expenditure in 2011-12 ... are not yet backed by detailed departmental spending limits," it says.

Too Late to Change Your Minds, Gents 2010

Musical form is determined by musical repetition, whereas literature (especially narrative fiction) is ongoing, unidirectional, and non-cyclical.

Music 2007

Really the terms "ongoing, unidirectional, and non-cyclical" are a way of reducing literature to the element of "story."

Music 2007

To what extent is it true that literature, even granting the narrowing of the term to fiction, is "ongoing, unidirectional, and non-cyclical"?

Music 2007

"The focus now is not on any one category, but on non-cyclical growth ideas outside the United States, new products replacing old ones or improving on current applications."

Everything Looks Like Up From Here 2008

As of April 30, the fund had about 21% of its money in consumer non-cyclical shares, about 19% in basic-materials stocks, 18% in tech shares, about 11% in energy holdings and nearly 10% in consumer cyclical stocks.

Fueled Up 2008