Sentence examples for corporation effort from inspiring English sources

In the television interview, Mr. Cameron said that he did not give Mr. Hunt, 45, an Oxford-educated contemporary of Mr. Cameron's, the power to rule on the bid because he knew that Mr. Hunt supported the News Corporation effort to buy the 61 percent of the stock that it did not already own in British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB.

It certainly accounts for the two corporations' efforts to cast themselves as global companies with local operations, not insensitive American behemoths.

The corporations' efforts saved them far more in reduced taxes than the costs of their political contributions, lobbyists' fees and public relations campaigns.

Says Kleinbard, "The right solution is worldwide tax consolidation at a fair rate" to shut down corporations' efforts to play one country's tax regime off against another's.

The loss is seen in the development corporation's effort to persuade a fiberglass company to put a plant here employing 700 people at $12 to $13 an hour, and health insurance.

Dr. Zimmerman also said that the fallout of the case had reverberated through the hospital, to the extent that the State Hospital Review and Planning Council was holding up the corporation's effort to get approval on a $105 million renovation.

The Murdoch purchase is the most recent example of the corporation's effort to expand coverage of the boroughs outside Manhattan; the News Corporation also bought papers in Queens and the Bronx, as well as Courier-Life in Brooklyn, in 2006 and 2007.

The deal is a centerpiece of News Corporation's efforts to expand.

And EchoStar trounced the News Corporation in efforts to acquire Hughes Electronics, owner of DirecTV, in a deal that would create the dominant satellite-television broadcaster with 16 million subscribers.

The move came as the giant corporation accelerated efforts to remold itself by shedding diverse businesses one year after having moved its primary stock exchange listing from Johannesburg to the far larger market in London.

Opponents have already promised a vigorous legal struggle against the development corporation's efforts to condemn the small amount of property that Forest City Ratner has not been able to acquire privately.