Sentence examples for partners vote from inspiring English sources

If Deloitte's partners vote for a consultant, it will leave little doubt that the firm's roots in bean counting are being left further behind.

According to a McKinsey spokesman, Michael Stewart, the selection process often takes many months because not all of the firm's 270 eligible senior partners vote in time to meet deadlines set for each round of voting.

If partners vote to amend their partnership agreement, eliminating a clause that prohibits them from competing against Andersen, it would probably set off a speedy mass exodus, leaving Andersen an empty shell, according to lawyers who are advising some of the partners.

In a regulation intended to protect minority shareholders, Hong Kong law stipulates that a buyout can be approved if a majority of shareholders, regardless of how much stock they own, other than the buyout partners, vote in favor of the deal.

Under the Uniform Partnership Act, a partnership will be dissolved within 90 days of a partner's death if a majority of surviving partners vote for dissolution.[36].[36]

This year, Mr. Stewart said, partners voted on time, so the process took less than two months.

Andersen Consulting's partners voted unanimously in December 1997 to sever ties with Arthur Andersen.

In 2010 the company's partners voted down a proposed merger with AT Kearney, another midsized strategy firm.

In the end, the partners voted to stay in Lower Manhattan, where the firm has been operating since 1792.

But when the time came, the partners voted 3 to 1 to remain in Lower Manhattan, the firm's home since it began in 1792.

In the Czech Republic, the fledgling government of Prime Minister Valdimir Spidla teetered near collapse after one of its coalition partners voted against a tax increase to help flood victims.