Sentence examples for purchasing control of from inspiring English sources

BARCELONA — When Telefónica, the Spanish phone company, entered Latin America in 1992 by purchasing control of an operator in Chile, the company was criticized for exposing itself to a region prone to debt crises, political instability and corruption.

Hicks served as chief engineer and then as vice president in charge of engineering, before purchasing control of the company from her uncle in 1955.

Pope told me that George Soros had recently purchased control of all the voting machines in eighteen states.

In 1897 Schiff attained considerable prestige in banking circles when he provided the financial backing that enabled railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman to purchase control of the bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad.

In 2007, Italian lawmakers resisted overtures from AT&T before agreeing to let Telefónica and its Italian partners purchase control of Telecom Italia.

In the late 1970s Renault of France purchased control of American Motors, but a decade later and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, the French were forced to regress.

Jack, however, secretly organized a syndicate that purchased control of the company.

Even before the Pakistani-born Khan tried to purchase majority control of the St . LouisRams early last year, he was known to the N.F.L. as a feasible buyer when a team came up for sale.

The banks "snatched up the best part and left the rest behind," said Joerg Drittenbass of the Swiss airline workers' union, referring to the purchase of control of Crossair.

Europe's biggest cable maker, Pirelli, gave Italy's two largest banks veto power over strategy in return for aid in financing the purchase of control of the dominant phone company, Olivetti.

The scarcity of affordable housing, apparently exacerbated by gentrification, led the Labour government to consider the blunt tool of compulsory purchase to control of the capital's housing stock.