Sentence examples for hefty stake from inspiring English sources

Ben-Cohen retains a hefty stake - 85% - of the shares.

The U.K. government's hefty stake in the country's banking system raised the spectre of an active role in the boardrooms.

While the bankers showed up in force this week, they are not the only ones with a hefty stake in the financial regulatory overhaul under consideration in Congress.

He may have to make more friends among them now, given Harvard's hefty stake in hedge funds and the possibility that he will have to recruit from their ranks—already a daunting task, given HMC's high visibility and limited compensation.

He was a proponent of buying shares of companies with steadily growing earnings, strong balance sheets and managers who themselves owned a hefty stake in the company, and then holding those investments for many years.

Mr Museveni has also threatened to close the Daily Monitor, in which the Aga Khan has a hefty stake, as well as two other independent newspapers, if they continued to "play around" with security matters.Such threats are nothing new, say media-watchers in Kampala, Uganda's capital.

France, for instance, still has hefty stakes in GDF SUEZ, Renault, Thales and Orange.

He also likes the region's banking sector but would rather invest through Western institutions that are taking hefty stakes in Central European banks.

Both men have hefty stakes in their companies 7½% for Mr Reichmann, 12% for Mr Bernerd and family and both have big private backers (Mr Reichmann has a Saudi Arabian, Mr Bernerd another Saudi and a Hong Kong businesswoman).One reason for bidding is that the constraints of quoted-company status are especially felt in property.

The rest hold hefty stakes to get at their dividends and earnings.

With so much money to invest and such close political scrutiny of their activities, funds are drawn to investment opportunities that can swallow their cash without giving them too hefty a stake.