Sentence examples for a large severance from inspiring English sources

And in a high-risk job, if you don't perform, you should be out," without a large severance payment.

But he received a large severance, enough to make it impossible for the church to pay a full-time minister until 2000, when Mr. Tennyson came aboard.

Shortly afterward, in April , 2008 Brauchli resigned under pressure; because Brauchli, who accepted a large severance, did not object to his removal, Murdoch was able to circumvent the restrictions of the independent board.

The chief executive at Massey Energy was awarded a large severance contract despite presiding over a company barraged with accusations of reckless conduct and with legal claims stemming from one of the deadliest mining disasters in memory.

Mr. Whittingdale said the panel, the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, would also be keen to explore allegations that Mr. Hinton had personally insisted on a large severance payout for Mr. Goodman when he was released from prison.

In a 1998 preliminary ruling in the Disney case, the judge, Chancellor William B. Chandler III, said that as long as Delaware law was followed, "a large severance package is just as valid as an authorization to borrow".

The company said today that after long negotiations it had reached a tentative agreement with the largest creditors in the bankruptcy case and a group of former employees who had been pressing the company for a larger severance package.

Mr. Thompson, who left the BBC in 2012 and is now the president and chief executive officer of The New York Times, has challenged July testimony by Mr. Patten about how much the trust was told about a series of large severance payments to executives who left the corporation in an effort to reduce costs.

Rejecting management recommendations, the Hewlett-Packard Company's shareholders narrowly adopted a measure requiring their approval of large severance packages for executives, the company said yesterday.

LONDON — A much anticipated parliamentary hearing on large severance payments made by the BBC created modest heat and rather less light on Monday, with key actors defending their positions in the face of legislators' incredulity.

In common usage, the term golden parachute refers to large severance payments made when a change of control results in job termination.