Sentence examples for half the shareholders from inspiring English sources

Farmers are free to sell their shares to other villagers or, with the approval of half the shareholders, to anyone else.

A three-year plan will give McCall a maximum of £4m a year, but it has to be approved by at least half the shareholders.

But the regulator has received several complaints about it all.Under local law, a buy-out must be approved by more than half the shareholders that are not party to the acquisition.

Companies are encouraged but not required to change their executive compensation if less than half of the shareholders approve it.

On April 17th over half of the shareholders in Vivendi, a media conglomerate, voted to stick with one vote per share, but they were short of the two-thirds majority required.

One result of that decision was that many American investors, who made up half of the shareholders of the merged company in 1998, have sold the stock, and Americans now make up only about one fourth of the shareholders.

But the parting was brief, for Rebekah Brooks was soon back in charge of the papers, and James Murdoch is running Sky again (over the objections of half the independent shareholders).

Even if he did not prevail -- and that has not yet been definitively decided -- Mr. Hewlett did get the support of nearly half of the shareholder voters cast.

Investors had no say over Dofasco and they can stall the Severstal deal only if at least half of the shareholder register rejects the merger at a meeting in Luxembourg at the end of this month (see article).

But when the two massive boring machines digging the service tunnel bump noses in November, a gale-force sigh of relief, and much orchestrated cheering, will emanate from Eurotunnel headquarters in London, followed by weak but hopeful hurrahs from the 210 banks and half million shareholders financing the whole affair.

Volvo said it would spin off half the Scania holding to shareholders should it fail to find a buyer by the commission's April 23 deadline.