Sentence examples for early corporations from inspiring English sources

Early corporations were chartered by the Crown or legislature.

But the plan was in the interest of realizing a profit sooner, and was only intended for the short term; historians say the Pilgrims were more like shareholders in an early corporation than subjects of socialism.

He paid for the construction of the six-month-old Hotel Colorful P&A (the initials are a reference to an earlier corporation of his), as he did for three other hotels he owns in nearby Shibuya, with a loan from Hiroshima Bank, a regional lender 420 miles away in western Japan, because bigger banks turned him down.

It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of what this means for individuals who are founders or who invest in early stage corporations.

But as Zachary Karabell reminds us in this concise and pleasantly digressive history, the waterway's creation stirred great passions in the 19th century.The Universal Company of the Maritime Suez Canal, formed in 1858, was one of earliest multinational corporations: its directors were French, Belgian, American, Russian and Venetian.

Then again, the Tenth Circuit was comfortable finding the opposite to be true when it wrote a month earlier that "corporations can be 'persons' exercising religion".

These early universities were corporations of students and masters, and they eventually received their charters from popes, emperors, and kings.

Not since the hip-hop boom of the early 90s have corporations leapt on a scene so vigorously.

While Second Life's limitations have caused a number of early investors — mainly corporations who bought virtual property as a potential marketing tool — to pull out, there is still plenty of speculative hovering around virtual worlds.

The critic Astra Taylor, in "The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age," argues that Adorno and Max Horkheimer, in their 1944 book "Dialectic of Enlightenment," gave early warnings about corporations "drowning out democracy in pursuit of profit".

"Corporations are still adopting Windows 7, so we don't think there'll be a massive adoption of Windows 8 by corporations early on," he said.