Sentence examples for act on governance from inspiring English sources

Schroders, managing £313bn of other people's money, is a firm we expect to read the riot act on governance to quoted companies.

"We act on corporate governance, but below the radar screen," says Alan Brown, chief investment officer at State Street Global Advisors.

Mr Webster's appointment to the new audit-oversight committee, which had been established under the Sarbanes-Oxley act on corporate governance, was already controversial.

His appointment to the new audit-oversight committee, which had been established under the Sarbanes-Oxley act on corporate governance, was already controversial.

Post-crisis regulation has a long history of unintended consequences, from the pay reforms of the early 1990s (when new limits on the deductibility from corporate tax of executive salaries merely shifted the excesses to bonuses) to key parts of the Sarbanes-Oxley act on corporate governance.

But the constructive act of governance is another matter.

But rhetoric is a tool of politicians, while legislation is an act of governance.

The theoretical debates around the concept of regulation reflect different disciplines and research agendas and can be broadly divided into approaches to regulation as an act of government and perspectives on regulation as governance.

Nigeria too could turn the corner on governance.

Second, they risk worsening an already fractious relationship between the administration and Wall Street.Many of the current economic problems do indeed go back to the excesses of the 1990s, notably the failure to act on abuses of corporate governance.

"A U.S. Visa, Shouts of Corruption, Barrels of Oil" (front page, Nov. 17) highlights the need for President Obama's administration to act on his call for good governance during his visit to Ghana last summer.