Sentence examples for code of corporate secrecy from inspiring English sources

Amazon's code of corporate secrecy is extreme — it won't confirm how many Seattle employees it has, or how many Kindle e-readers have been sold — so it's impossible to know for sure, but, according to one publisher's estimate, book sales in the U.S. now make up no more than seven per cent of the company's roughly seventy-five binlion dollannual annual revenue.

David Cameron has vowed to "knock down the walls of corporate secrecy".

"We try to follow the paper trails, but there are veils of corporate secrecy to disguise identities," a senior Australian diplomat said.

Action plans by G8 countries to produce full transparency, breaking through walls of corporate secrecy and establishing central public company registries.

Delaware provides a degree of corporate secrecy for those who operate there that makes it highly significant.

And Hinman (2008, 67) believes that the control of knowledge that these companies have is "in a very fundamental sense, a public trust, yet it remains firmly ensconced in private hands and behind a veil of corporate secrecy".

In a recent letter to CIGNA Chairman H. Edward Hanway, Rockefeller charges that insurance companies are hiding the amounts used to help consumers and small business owners "behind a wall of corporate secrecy".

The pervasiveness of corporate secrecy on America's shores stands in stark contrast to Washington's message to the rest of the world.

Russia's new securities chief, Igor Kostikov, already has begun work on a code of corporate governance.

Without irony, they tell themselves, "Don't be evil," parroting Google's code of corporate conduct.

Some 75% of properties whose owners are under investigation for corruption made use of offshore corporate secrecy to hide their identities.