If both parties go, Mr. Sharon would be left with only 55 seats and would need new partners to maintain a majority of more than 60 seats.
Indeed, officials of some exchanges have complained that the commission pushed some of them, including the Nasdaq stock market, to overhaul their boards a few years ago, but allowed the New York exchange to maintain a majority of industry insiders.
It's slimmer and lighter than its predecessor, while maintaining a majority of its iconic aluminum design language.
A logical move would be to sell off at least some of the VMware stake while maintaining a majority of the shares.
Tim Sullivan, Ancestry.com's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Howard Hochhauser, Ancestry.com's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will maintain a majority of their equity stakes in the company as part of the transaction.
The current demographic composition of Israel maintains a majority of people whose native family origins and history are in the Middle East - be they Jewish or Muslim.
Given the important role of alternative splicing in neural differentiation, there may be selective pressure to maintain a majority of splicing events in order to retain glial-like characteristics of the tumor cells.
Vistaprint bought out all of Printi's investors' stake and a portion of the founders' stake in the company, but the founders still maintain a majority stake of the company and control the board.
This weekend, Reliance Industries said Ambani and his associates would buy warrants convertible into shares, prompting speculation that he plans to maintain a majority stake in case of a share sale.
Ravalomanana's popularity began to waver in some quarters in 2007, although his TIM party was able to maintain a strong majority of seats in the September 2007 legislative elections.
