Sentence examples for corporate settlements from inspiring English sources

Of the 10 largest corporate settlements, nine have involved companies outside the United States.

In March he told Congress that corporate settlements do too little to deter fraud cash fines, he claimed, have become a mere "cost of doing business".

Our leader and briefing on corporate settlements, which argued that "companies must be punished when they do wrong, but the legal system has become an extortion racket", prompted lots of readers to write in.

As noted in a January, 2013, report on corporate settlements published by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, in 2003 the S.E.C. supposedly instated a policy requiring that its settlements include language that makes clear that penalty payments are not tax deductible.

In America last week one of the largest corporate settlements over asbestos, a fire retardant that causes lung cancer and other diseases, was agreed, between around 30 insurers and PPG Industries, a chemicals and paint manufacturer with a half-share in a bankrupt asbestos producer.

It was a theme set out in "The Suburban Employment Perimeter," in which the authors noted that "the invasion of large-scale post-industrial corporate settlements and their service retinues" had established the sites for economic recovery in the 1990's.

The agreement announced by the S.E.C. is the second big corporate settlement it has recently completed.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee demanded that former Attorney General John Ashcroft testify about his appointment to oversee a Justice Department corporate settlement.

The upcoming JPMorgan Chase settlement is expected to be the largest corporate settlement in Justice Department history.

In July, BP announced that it would pay up to $18.7 billion in penalties to the U.S. government and five states to resolve nearly all claims from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the largest corporate settlement in U.S. history.

Indigenous peoples in Ecuador and Bolivia had a particularly rousing set of victories, while the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia, astonishingly, defeated U.S.-based Bechtel Corporation's privatization of their water, and Ecuadorans are suing Chevron for environmental devastation in what could be the biggest corporate settlement in history -- $27 billion.