Sentence examples for taking majority from inspiring English sources

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

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.

One reason private equity was successful in the United States was its ability to reorganize companies by taking majority ownership and eliminating management inefficiencies.

And we made our choice — taking majority shares of two of the biggest banks in the world, restructuring the banking system, and to prevent saves losing out, putting in place the biggest insurance policy that Britain has ever had.

They are taking calculated steps as part of a long-term strategy.Until recently Chinese foreign acquisitions generally involved taking majority stakes in oil, gas and commodities companies in developing markets.

The party fell agonisingly short of taking majority control of Barnet Council for the first time.

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.

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.