Sentence examples for granting corporations from inspiring English sources

The House majority leader, Representative Dick Armey of Texas, said on Monday that if talks remained stalled, he would consider stripping some provisions out of the House bill that were most objectionable to Democrats, including a cut in the capital gains tax and granting corporations billions in immediate refunds as part of the repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax.

The implications of granting corporations the right to free expression of religion are horrific.

Citizens United, the misbegotten Supreme Court case granting corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections, has entered its terrible twos.

The Economist magazine recently teamed with Innocentive, an award granting corporation, as it advertises itself, connecting " seekers with solvers" to enable other corporations the "shortest, most cost-effective path to finding a solution.

With its ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Supreme Court has granted corporations even further unfettered access to destroy the fundamental Constitutional protections against corporate control of government.

(Courts have granted corporations, like newspapers, First Amendment records for decades).

If the court previously granted corporations first-amendment protections for speech, then why not for religious exercise too?(Photo credit: AFP).

While it grants corporations and unions new access, it is also likely to spur state officials and campaign reform groups to push for new types of restrictions.

In 1886, the United States Supreme Court found that the 14th Amendment -- intended to protect the rights of freed slaves -- granted corporations the legal status of persons, enshrining the distinction between corporations and their owners.

She has passionately campaigned against Obama's proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, which would grant corporations the ability to sue elected governments in secret courts to stop policies they don't like.

Similar fears led Mr. Nader to condemn South Africa's new Constitution, the one that ended apartheid, because -- like the laws of every market economy -- it grants corporations some legal status as individuals.