Sentence examples for limiting companies from inspiring English sources

A chart in Business Day on Feb. 25 listing the largest owners of television stations, with an article about pressures to change federal rules limiting companies' holdings, included two companies erroneously and omitted three others.

The Federation of Korean Industries, made up of the leaders of the 64 largest conglomerates, singled out rules limiting companies' ratios of debt to equity and barring any company in a conglomerate, or chaebol, from investing more than 25percentt of its assets in other companies.

But since any territorial system is vulnerable to tax-avoidance schemes — like shifting income abroad to make it look as if profits were being earned abroad — you'd also need tough anti-abuse provisions, like taxing at least a fixed percentage of foreign earnings and limiting companies' ability to channel income to subsidiaries in low-tax countries.

Supporters of the existing regulations say that the rules promote many benefits that are not easily quantifiable and are certain to be overlooked under such cost-benefit analyses, from protecting consumers from dangerous products to preserving the environment and limiting companies from dominating certain crucial industries like telecommunications.

After years of limiting companies to no more than one-third of the available airwaves in a given territory, the F.C.C. on Friday will begin the rule-making process on whether new technologies require limits to be redrawn, recalibrated or perhaps removed.

In December, San Francisco nearly banned the bots by limiting companies to three robots each with only nine total in the city that are relegated to low-population areas, can't travel more than three miles per hour and must be supervised remotely by humans.

That could limit companies' ability to grow by acquisition.

In 2005 only half of Italy's limited companies admitted to making any profits at all.

It would limit companies' emissions while allowing them to buy and sell permits to pollute.

The F.C.C. now limits companies to holding no more than one-third of an area's available airwaves.

President Clinton said the rules would limit companies' ability to obtain sensitive medical information for the purpose of marketing.