1.   After a brief fad of investing in them, big investors began to shun these companies.

2.   He said the company had been shunned by prospective new investment clients while that cloud was hanging over the firm.

3.   I believe many commuters shun company because that is their only alone-opportunity.

4.   In addition, it shuns companies in tobacco, alcohol or gambling.

5.   Most socially responsible funds shun companies whose products or attitudes they consider anti-social.

6.   Talbot said he was now attracting financial interest from venture capitalists who had once shunned companies like Salon that created original content for the Web.

7.   The stock market has experienced a violent mood swing, shunning Internet companies today as intensely as it was captivated by them a year ago.

8.   The Timothy Plan shuns companies who make money from what its founders call sinning, but they apparently have no problem with greed.

9.   Tired of all those whiny liberals who run so-called socially responsible mutual funds, the ones that shun companies that make booze or bombs?

10.   Amid the increasing questions about the accuracy of earnings, investors have shunned companies whose business structure appears too labyrinthine.