Sentence examples for executive forcing from inspiring English sources

In August, Jeffrey K. Skilling resigned as chief executive, forcing Mr. Lay, his predecessor, to resume day-to-day control.

For the Taiwanese company Acer, it has meant a brutal boardroom shakeout that saw its chief executive forced out after two successive quarters of losses.

These sinister forces include his own employee Kor Dienerowitz, an amoral executive forced on him by the money people; and Thor Ang Balk, a Julian Assange type who runs a site for leaked documents.

But most shows suck not because some stupid executive forced the writer to cut out the edgy stuff or add a cute redheaded kid, but because making something good is hard.

Silicon Valley has been heavily derided by the media these past few months, on everything from Google executives forcing senior citizens out of their homes and founders accused of sexually harassing women to startups stealing reservations and parking spots.

At his fiercest, corporate raider Irwin L. Jacobs, a member of The Forbes 400 richest Americans from 1986 to 1988, terrorized chief executives, forcing them to either fix their problems or sell them off to him, if possible.

Another theme is the notion of network executives forcing ideas onto a show.

"I keep hearing people say that the ITV executives forced me into it.

Executives, forced to vouch for the accuracy of their reports, could become less willing to exaggerate profits.

HP has suffered from a lack of clear leadership, with two chief executives forced out in the last two years.

Otherwise, it seems like an idea some television executives forced to happen because they thought it would get a lot of attention.