Sentence examples for secured a controlling from inspiring English sources
And Mr. Gates's software, in particular -- the operating system of I.B.M.'s machine -- secured a controlling position that it still has not relinquished.
Mr. Allbritton, who secured a controlling stake in Riggs in 1981, coveted the bank's international cachet and made regular business trips abroad, including to Chile.
Kroenke triggered a full takeover on Monday when he secured a controlling stake and the American businessman is now obliged to make a mandatory cash offer for the remaining capital.
KirchMedia, the German company who have caused controversy over their plans for TV coverage of the 2002 World Cup, today secured a controlling stake in the holding company that holds the rights to Formula one.
Having secured a controlling stake, CITIC Group will take up most of CITIC Pacifics money-losing Australian-dollar-leveraged foreign exchange contracts, leaving a small proportion with the Hong Kong-listed company to be used for its Australian iron ore business.
In that deal, which was announced in August, Disney secured a controlling interest in Toysmart.
LONDON — Heineken's efforts to secure a controlling stake in Asia Pacific Breweries is facing a setback after Thai Beverage increased its stake in Fraser & Neave, the Singapore-based conglomerate that had agreed to sell its rights in the Asian brewer to Heineken for around $4.1 billion.
Throughout most of the 1990s, his Dallas-based Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, one of the nation's largest leveraged buyout firms, was richly rewarded for securing a controlling stake in old-economy companies, improving their bottom line and selling out at a profit.
Perimeter-based security: The technique of securing a network by controlling access to all entry and exit points of the network.
The Obama administration deliberately stopped short of securing a majority or controlling interest in Citigroup, but will probably come under intense pressure to take a much larger role in shaping the bank's direction.
Warwick Fairfax, then only 26, secured a huge loan to regain control of the empire.
