Sentence examples for class of voting from inspiring English sources

The Novo Mercado, which insists on one class of voting shares, has expanded from two companies in 2004 to 34 today.

(In 1956, Mr. Weinberg put together a plan that allowed Henry Ford II to take his company public -- raising $650 million and retaining 40percentt of a new class of voting stock in the process. It was a brilliant piece of financial engineering, and cemented what has become arguably the most personal relationship between a Wall Street firm and a public company).

A shareholder resolution filed this year demanded that the company recapitalize in order to establish a single class of voting stock, and noted that the corporate-governance rating agency I.S.S. had given Viacom its lowest possible score, warning of "red flags across all the categories in board structure, compensation and shareholder rights".

This nice idea of phantom voters was introduced by Moulin (1980), who used it to characterize a class of voting schemes that are non-manipulable, in that they do not provide opportunities for strategic voting.

Ford Motor is safely in the hands of the Ford family, which owns an estimated 5% of Ford shares but controls 40% of the company through a special class of voting stock.

The Sulzberger family members own about 19percentt of company and control it with a special class of voting shares.

VW has a 20% stake in Scania, a Swedish truck and engineering group, which has two classes of voting shares, one with ten times as many votes as the other.

Scoring rules and voting trees are two broad and concisely-representable classes of voting rules; scoring rules award points to alternatives according to their position in the preferences of the voters, while voting trees are iterative procedures that select an alternative based on pairwise comparisons.

He argued that there was an emerging group of moderate, middle-class voters capable of voting either for the Greens or the Christian Democrats.

Indeed, to most in the political and journalistic class, the mere thought of voting for Jeremy Corbyn is tantamount to a psychotic break with reality, justifying the abuse (some from former party leaders) that has been thrown at these poor deluded fools.

Mr. Levan and his associates control BFC and BankAtlantic through special classes of voting shares.