Sentence examples for it exercised its from inspiring English sources

It exercised its pre-emptive right to buy a 26% stake in France's second-largest telecoms company from BT for euro4 billion ($4 billion), thwarting (for now) Vodafone's designs on the company.

The voting-age population in the 16th Congressional District is 77.6 percent Hispanic, according to the Texas Legislative Service, but it exercised its franchise on behalf of Mr. O'Rourke instead of Mr. Reyes.

Over the UN's first quarter century, the U.S. did not exercise a single veto, but after 1970 it exercised its veto power substantially more often than any of the other four permanent members.

"The contents of the prosecution's file plainly belie the State's claim that it exercised its strikes in a 'color-blind' manner," Roberts wrote for the Court, adding, "the focus on race in the prosecution's file plainly demonstrates a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury".

Another investor, the British bank Barclays, says it exercised its special right to immediately redeem from the funds in October 2008 but that Highland refused.

Apparently, Capital One was not satisfied with the results because on March 3, 1999 it exercised its contractual option to terminate its agreement with Priceline.com unless it renegotiated the terms.

He insists, in fact, that "Imagination is the widest known thing" because "it exercises its properties through its reality over every thing and non-thing.

The infusion of money helps it exercise its atrophied military muscles.

Mr. Booth says that his company pays close attention to issues like executive compensation and that it exercises its voting rights in the companies in which it invests.

President Bush needs to find a new director who can get control of the F.B.I. and ensure that it exercises its considerable law enforcement powers fairly and effectively.

Mr. Brisseau's most obsessive subject is sex, particularly as it exercises its hypnotic influence over members of different generations, older men and younger women, and, more subversively, older women and younger men.