Sentence examples for directors to exercise from inspiring English sources

"We encourage all of our field office directors to exercise prosecutorial discretion on a case-by-case basis," he said.

Recent Delaware rulings (including sharp words for Disney's board over an obscene pay-off to Michael Ovitz, a failed former company president) suggest that its judges have begun to rethink the latitude with which they have allowed directors to exercise their "business judgment".

It requires audit committees of independent directors to exercise broad oversight, but in Germany firms don't even have audit committees.

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An assertion that the directors failed to exercise proper oversight requires proof that the directors failed to create an information system or controls or, having an information system, consciously failed to monitor corporate operations.

However, even though the company failed to achieve this, directors decided to exercise their discretion and allowed some of the award.

The case presented "suggests that the Disney directors failed to exercise any business judgment and failed to make any good-faith attempt to fulfil their fiduciary duties to Disney and its stockholders," wrote William Chandler, chancellor of Delaware's Court of Chancery, last year, after an earlier hearing on the case.

Yesterday, a special committee of Hollinger International's directors sought to exercise boardroom prerogative by filing suit in the Delaware court to block Lord Black's deal, and by adopting a poison-pill provision that could make it financially undesirable for the Barclays to proceed with their purchase.

I don't want to be part of a system where the movie director has to exercise self-censorship," said Weerasethakul, whose film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives triumphed at the Cannes film festival in 2010.

The RFU has agreed a central management system for the leading players with the Guinness Premiership clubs, who will receive £11m a year for allowing the Union's elite rugby director, Rob Andrew, to exercise a considerable amount of control over the national squad.

The meetings occurred shortly before a period in which directors were allowed to exercise share options.