Sentence examples for big preferred from inspiring English sources

Along with the Treasury Department announcement, Citigroup said that it had gotten assurances from four big preferred shareholders to convert their investments into common stock.

Citigroup has been pursuing a similar conversion plan with several big preferred stock investors, including several government investment funds like the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the Kuwait Investment Authority, as part of a broader financial restructuring.

Again, those describing a big win preferred the healthier snacks; those who had to write about a narrow defeat comforted themselves with something waist-expanding.

Each big producer prefers to stipulate agreements where only its own line of products are used, and each big producer typically adds any sort of technical difficulty to impair its devices from communicating with those of its competitors.

As a poet, he refused the easy consolation of big ideas, preferring to focus on the choices individuals made.

All together it renders him uncommitted, slickly distracting from his lack of big moments, preferring anything but emphasis.

We are too old for hostel party vibe stuff, and are not fans of big hotels, preferring intimate little posadas/pensions with character and colour.

That's why the big countries prefer Belgians, Luxembourgers or Portugal's Jose Manuel Barroso to be president of the commission or – the Belgian Herman Van Rompuy – president of the council itself.

But the big utilities prefer to look at the numbers on their balance sheet since the collapse of the economy late in 2001.

Another alternative, one many big states prefer, would be rotating regional primaries, with a different bloc of states going first every four years.

Clearly, big business prefers A123 to Altair.