Sentence examples for of being owned from inspiring English sources
TMZ has the advantage of being owned by entertainment giant Time Warner.
He had the good fortune of being owned by Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, a member of Dubai's ruling family as well as a deep-pocketed sportsman.
It helps, of course, that Tata Motors has deep pockets, by virtue not only of its strong position in the Indian car market, but by dint of being owned by Tata Group, whose holdings include power, steel, beverages and hotels.
It certainly helped that she was not so consumed by desperation for stardom that she would do anything, and buckle under any instruction, to reach it; "the idea of being owned by a studio was offensive to me," she said.
These ideas are distinguished from ideas of properties that are peculiar to particular dogs, such as the property of being owned by Smith or the property of weighing 20 pounds.
But his mother's family, slaves in Virginia, had the rare good fortune of being owned by a Quaker family, which freed them in 1782, exceptionally early in the history of American slavery.
The energy company of Feldheim is owned by the citizens of the village.
Most of these are owned by municipalities.
And half of that is owned by the top 1percentt.
(Warner Brothers, of course, is owned by AOL's parent, AOL Time Warner).
In 1995, just 24% of homes were owned outright.
