Sentence examples for take majority from inspiring English sources

We can no longer take majority votes for granted.

Does the deal allow him to take majority control of the Mets?

The transaction gives Discovery the chance to take majority ownership of Eurosport in two years.

Foreign banks were not, at first, allowed to take majority stakes in Mexican banks, delaying management clear-outs.

K.K.R. and others rationalize this by saying that their private funds typically take majority positions in big companies.

But it cannot take majority control of Chrysler until it repays money borrowed from the federal government.

Among those deals were taking majority stakes in two big hedge funds and in a European fund of funds.

After Democrats took majority control in the House and Senate this year, lawmakers in both chambers adopted stringent "pay-go" rules to highlight their differences with Republicans.

When Sri Lanka couldn't repay loans on a deepwater port, China took majority ownership of the project, stirring protests about interference in Sri Lanka's sovereignty.

Defence contractor BAE Systems is pushing to secure control over Britain's entire submarine industry by taking majority ownership of maintenance and support facilities at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth.

Carlyle, aiming to make itself more attractive to its investors and public shareholders, recently took majority stakes in two hedge funds.