Sentence examples for fierce proxy from inspiring English sources

When the Calhoun bank balked at paying some of his legal expenses, Mr. Lance began and won a fierce proxy fight, installed two sons as directors and re-emerged as an influential Georgia banker.

A25 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 Tally Favors Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard said a count by independent inspectors had confirmed that it won the shareholder vote in the fierce proxy battle over a plan to buy Compaq.

The fierce proxy battle to decide Hewlett-Packard's future was not yet under way, and Mr. Hewlett met privately with a few Wall Street investors and journalists to explain his stance.

Hewlett-Packard said yesterday that a count by independent inspectors had confirmed that it won the shareholder vote in the fierce proxy battle over the company's future by a modest but decisive margin.

It is his vision for the company that is at the center of the increasingly fierce proxy fight, one that began last month and in which both sides have recently dredged through the other's corporate history for purported instances of self-dealing and incompetence.

But the departure of Mr. Clarke, 42, and a few other former Compaq executives, analysts say, are of greater significance to Hewlett-Packard in terms of a thinning of the management ranks below Carleton S. Fiorina, the company's chief executive, who overcame a fierce proxy challenge to complete the Compaq merger in May 2002.

Whether it was countering increased Iranian influence or its fierce regional proxies, the brute menace of the divisive prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq or the despotic rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, to tolerate and supporting violent extremist groups inevitably meant to tolerate Isis, al-Qaida affiliates and other like-minded groups.

No one today remembers the death throes of the last of the colonial empires in the mid-twentieth century with their staggering population transfers, fierce insurgencies, and endless proxy wars -- even if the infant states that emerged from those bloody afterbirths gained at least a measure of independence.

In the decades that followed, civilians experienced devastation caused by conflicts that played out completely differently to the two world wars – marked by proxy conflicts and fierce battles of ideology fought in the name of religion or regime change.

No, there are facts: the rise of Iran, the fierce projection of Iran's proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and the rockets that have been fired by them.

Mutual funds must disclose how they exercise their investors' proxy votes.Only on this last point did the SEC resist fierce lobbying.