For Exodus, the transaction would have allowed it to enlarge its leading role in the hosting industry, in which companies provide services like security and high-speed connections for other companies' Web sites.
Facebook understands its leading role as an identity technology -- it is providing the leading tool for individual empowerment, not although, but precisely because it is also the leading tool to deceive, coerce and manipulate the perceptions of others.
Its leading role in the struggle against apartheid still secures it the loyalty of a large majority.
In addition to its leading role in implementing EU's policy in Ukraine, it is Ukraine's neighbor and would most directly be affected by renewed fighting in Ukraine because such fighting would likely cause new migrations, and, of course, Poland would directly be affected by Russian aggression against NATO's eastern flank.
The BBC, for all its faults, used to take its leading role in our culture seriously.
Despite its leading role in policing the banks, the New York Fed cannot levy fines.
To showcase its leading role, Samsung gathered 50 industry executives and academics on Cheju island for a conference on 4G.
The most serious challenge to its leading role came from the American Football League (AFL) in the 1960s.
The large star was said to stand for the Chinese Communist Party and its leading role in guiding the nation.
The sort of European-oriented Palestinian nobility from which you come, Sari, has lost its leading role.
Though run-down and destitute today, the town is considered a holy place by Ethiopians because of its leading role in the growth of Coptic Christianity.
