Sentence examples for exchange a majority of from inspiring English sources

In exchange, a majority of the company's debt holders agreed to defer some interest payments and grant relief from loan covenants.

The Treasury received the preferred and common shares in exchange for a majority of G.M.'s government debt.

The machinists and the pilots took deep wage cuts in 1994 in exchange for a majority of the stock in UAL Corporation, United's parent.

Since portable media such as CD or DVD are still used for data exchange by a majority of the hospitals (85%% of the respondent hospitals) and the incoming CD/DVDs are all uploaded into their images archive system, this will lead to fast growing storage problems.

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About two dozen Latin miners are publicly traded, most of them on their home exchanges and a majority of them in Peru.

Indeed, officials of some exchanges have complained that the commission pushed some of them, including the Nasdaq stock market, to overhaul their boards a few years ago, but allowed the New York exchange to maintain a majority of industry insiders.

A forthcoming report from the Injection Drug Users Health Alliance shows that a majority of needle exchange participants in New York City injected in public spaces in the past year, and were therefore more than twice as likely to have overdosed as users who didn't.

In exchange for gun industry campaign contributions, a majority of Republicans in Congress have been purchased and enough Democrats have been bought or at least intimated into submission, they won't even vote in favor of a federal law requiring a criminal background check for all gun sales.

The merger of the New York and German exchanges requires approval by owners representing a majority of NYSE Euronext shares and 75 percent of Deutsche Borse shareholders.

He called on stock exchanges to require companies to appoint a majority of independent (non-executive) directors, and for audit and remuneration committees to be all independent.