Sentence examples for irb from inspiring English sources

More moderate nationalists subsequently regained control, but the IRB influence remained very strong.

At the end of last year it paid 2 billion koruna for a controlling stake in the remains of IRB.

Back in Ireland, Davitt won Parnell's cooperation in organizing the Land League, which led, however, to his expulsion (1880) from the supreme council of the IRB.

The first Rugby World Cup competition organized by the International Rugby Board (IRB) was held in 1987 in New Zealand and Australia and was a popular and financial success.

It was staged four years after a failed attempt to launch a global "rebel" (that is, outside the control of the IRB) professional championship.

An IRB world player of the year award and 68 caps bear testimony to that.

But with most coaches and blinkered commentators blaming the IRB for ruining the game, nothing happened.

IRB chairman Bernard Lapasset said: "In order to reach an outcome that is in the best interests of rugby globally, the IRB will work actively with its unions towards the goal of achieving a unified and acceptable outcome for all stakeholders involved".

Its future plans include a schedule of international rugby tours ahead of the 2019 World Cup in Japan, taking in visits by top-tier counties to the Pacific Islands, North America and Japan in the November and June windows of the year, when other competitions are in hiatus.The IRB is also making good efforts to close the resource gap, with a strategic-investment programme in second-tier countries.

On May 20th OTP bought DSK, Bulgaria's second-largest bank and the last in state ownership, having seen off Austria's Erste Bank with a euro311m ($364m) offer.This is OTP's second foreign acquisition it bought IRB, a Slovakian bank, in 2001 and it is looking for more.

When it bought IRB, the steel maker's intention was to use the bank to finance projects that other banks wouldn't touch.