Sentence examples for standard shareholder from inspiring English sources

They unilaterally went to Washington to get an injunction not on a deal — which had never been consummated between the two companies — but to block Broadcom from replacing its board of directors in a standard shareholder vote.

A corporation can be distilled (sometimes foolishly) to one standard: shareholder returns.

Exceptions include that a company in the oil and gas extraction industry may not accept group relief against the profits arising on its oil and gas extraction business, and a life assurance company may only accept group relief against its profits chargeable to tax at the standard shareholder rate applicable to that company.

"The club should therefore be on a much more secure financial footing than the standard shareholder-ownership structure," says Mr Brooks.Leeds United is top of the fans' shopping list, according to votes cast online.

We hypothesize that CEO compensation is optimally designed to trade off two types of agency problems: the standard shareholder-management agency problem as well as the risk-shifting problem between shareholders and debtholders.

Although all the directors were re-elected, Mr. Lane and two other directors, John Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson, received less than 60 percent of the vote, which by the standards of shareholder democracy is considered a repudiation.

Now increasingly conservative courts impose tougher standards on shareholder claims.

By the admittedly low standards of shareholder democracy, that's considered repudiation.

Mr. Tese received the support of just 45.4 percent of shareholders, which is an abysmal showing by the standards of shareholder democracy.

Still, the measure has gained as much as 38 percent of the vote, considered resounding support by the feeble standards of shareholder democracy.

Mike Rees, head of Standard Chartered's wholesale banking division, and one of the highest-paid bankers in the industry, was denied almost a quarter of available votes – a large revolt by the standards of shareholder meetings.