Sentence examples for portion of directors from inspiring English sources

And many, including E*Trade, have relatively small boards with a high portion of directors who have ties to management, Mr. McGurn said.

When only a portion of directors are up for election every year, the argument goes, corporate boards are less accountable to shareholders.

Illumina has what's known as a staggered board, meaning that only a portion of its directors are up for election in any given year, providing some defense against hostile takeovers.

Back in early 2005 it tied a portion of managing directors' compensation to how the firm performed over the next five years, as measured by earnings and share price performance.

Credit Suisse has for 2010 increased the fixed portion of pay for 7,000 directors and managing directors.

In a memorandum published on Wednesday entitled "Harvard's Shareholder Rights Project Is Wrong," the law firm stood up for the practice, in which only a portion of a company's directors come up for election in a given year.

All occurred during the swim portion of the event, said Kathy Matejka, director of event services at USA Triathlon.

PUCK "He's the only character that we're allowing to play across the Internet," as well as be shown in the more traditional live portion of the production, said Tom Uglow, director of Google Creative Lab (during an interview on Google Hangouts, appropriately enough).

"I feel as though every part of the world has taken a portion of our blood," says Abdul Ghani Alshawakh, director of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet organization in Kilis that cared for the four children and others like them.

In 12956 he used a portion of his inheritance to establish the Ingram Merrill Foundation, whose board of directors was empowered to award grants to writers and artists.

Among the resolutions passed was one covering the need to defer portions of pay for directors in 2010, but Hampton revealed that a new long-term incentive plan would be put to shareholders at the annual meeting next year and that consultation with shareholders had now begun.