Sentence examples for corporate killing from inspiring English sources

However, the government has delayed the legislation amid business unease about the concept of corporate killing.

But if evidence existed, firms such as tobacco companies, could face action under a new "corporate killing" law.

By the time I'd grasped the concept (underachieving businessman is overassisted by an ex-soldier who takes corporate "killing" all too literally), I'd stashed the set back in its cabinet.

Ministers have also decided that, besides the crown prosecution service, the health and safety executive, and the civil aviation authority should be allowed to investigate and prosecute in corporate killing cases.

Mr Straw said he would consider extending the law to include criminal sanctions against individual, named directors, but only as part of a separate charge from corporate killing and only in cases where there was direct evidence implicating the person.

The lesser verdict was the only sanction available after July, when the judge had thrown out more serious charges of corporate manslaughter levelled at three of Network Rail's former employees and two of Balfour Beatty's.Campaigners seized on the outcome as further proof that the laws that govern corporate killing need reform.

You live enslaved to the whims of your board of directors, the swings of what the stock market does to your shares, the conference calls on the weekends, the 6.00am flights to foreign meetings and the dealing with individuals that live for the corporate kill and machiavelian intrigues.

On the subject of old Rare, the popular story is that when Microsoft took control of the studio, it restricted the team's creativity, and insisted on a more corporate approach, killing the unique atmosphere.

His character still believed in music as protest; he didn't know that corporate pop had killed the revolution.

You get points for wanton destruction (every window you break increases your score) and you are occasionally assigned a task like blowing up corporate headquarters or killing the corporate "genetically modified enforcer".

Walgreens, Theranos' biggest corporate partner, killed its deal and shut down all its Arizona in-store Theranos testing centers in June.