Sentence examples for corporation defeated from inspiring English sources
The corporation, defeated in its bid for Chevron of the US earlier this year, would then be able to buy foreign energy assets without fear that the anti-China card could be played by Americans or Europeans.
He entered public relations and became known, in the world of political consultants, for winning dozens of issue-oriented ballot campaigns on behalf of corporations: defeating proposals to increase tobacco taxes and to require restaurants to offer health insurance to employees.
My point was that most of the time liberals achieved lasting reforms when they initially swallowed concessions proposed by corporations, and conversely, went bust when they tried to defeat corporations outright.
The company also defeated efforts to eliminate News Corporation's dual-stock structure that ensures Murdoch family control and to require that its chairman be independent.
Millions of dollars poured in from various corporations such as Monsanto and PepsiCo against the ballot measure, which was ultimately defeated.
In the afternoon, the Democrats defeated an amendment that would have prevented lawsuits against American corporations.
The TPP must be defeated, but our overall trade policy must also change for corporations to start investing in America and creating jobs here again, and not just in China and other low wage countries.
The Reform Act 1832 led to his departure from the Lords, and is considered to have greatly shortened his life; he fought strongly for the city corporations, which he claimed the bill treated "with absolute contempt", but was eventually defeated.
Voters defeated a hard-fought ballot initiative in California late last year after the biotech industry, and major corporations like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, spent millions of dollars to fight the effort.
Spain was defeated and surrendered.
