Sentence examples for failed directorships from inspiring English sources

And defaulting on one's debts has become much less cumbersome; in the current housing slump many American homeowners have resorted to "jingle mail", dropping their keys through the lender's letterbox and walking away from their property.In business, a few failed directorships are a sign of entrepreneurship rather than incompetence.

The investigation examined whether Lord Hanningfield failed to declare directorship at the time of transfer and whether he stood to benefit financially from the arrangement.

But Aitken failed to declare the directorship and, as the arms sales minister, promoted a military equipment deal for his friend in the 1990s.

In The Australian, independent senator Nick Xenophon features heavily this morning, with reports that he failed to declare his directorship of a company run by his father.

The South Australian independent, who stands to win the balance of power in the Senate, initially denied any involvement with Adelaide Tower Pty Ltd but after checking admitted he had failed to declare the directorship in his parliamentary register of interests in an "embarrassing oversight".

He said that the committee would also look into the recent Bahama Leaks affair and the case of former Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who failed to declare a directorship in an offshore firm while she held the competition portfolio.

Though in past years he was something of a serial applicant for other museum directorships, including those of the Frick Collection in New York and Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, he was most disappointed by his two failed attempts to get the directorship of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In a recent classic of the genre, a national newspaper column dismissed strict liability and the author failed to declare his long-time directorship of Celtic.

As for the linked suggestion that I improperly failed to register my former banking directorship with the Makhzoumis' company Future Management Services in the Register of Members' Interests, I am confident that I acted entirely in accordance with the register in not recording this non-remunerated directorship.

She says her tribe's current chieftain has failed in this task by accepting a directorship in the mining company and a new 4x4 in return for approving a deal he had no right to make.

He had failed to follow the proper rules over shareholdings and directorships after he quit as home secretary last December over an affair.