Sentence examples for controlling vote from inspiring English sources

Even so, they will not have the controlling vote, which proved crucial during last summer's fiasco.

The lawyers bore in on how both sides arrived at the terms under which Mr. Malone agreed to transfer to Mr. Diller the proxy for Liberty's controlling vote in IAC.

In his last 15 years as chairman of the Forte group, he was involved in a protracted battle for control of the Savoy group of hotels which ended with him owning the majority of the shares, but no controlling vote.

In addition, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, its biggest shareholder and the company that has a controlling vote on Bridge's board, will inject $150 million in temporary financing during the reorganization.

Justice O'Connor is also likely to cast the controlling vote if the court, as expected, takes up one of several pending cases on the role of affirmative action in higher education.

In addition to questions about hacking, executive compensation and the dual-class share structure that gives the Murdoch family a controlling vote, investors asked Mr. Murdoch about animal rights and digital tools for teachers.

Redstone, head of National Amusements, still owns controlling voting shares in both Viacom and CBS, media properties responsible for huge incomes across cable, broadcast, premium pay-TV networks and film.

While the government now controls voting rights for about 44percentt of the company's stock, it does not own the shares.

The little-known state corporation that was supposed to make the annual payments to the city, the Local Government Assistance Corporation, which Mr. Pataki controls, voted to halt the deal.

The rout of the centre-left has led some MEPs to predict that a new "centre-right" majority may now control voting more often.

He always said he had befriended Mr. Friedman, Mr. Esposito, Mr. Manes and others because they controlled votes that could make or break legislation he wanted approved or killed.