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While variable interest entities in such cases are technically owned by the Chinese, foreign-owned corporations maintain de facto control through a series of contracts that can involve equity pledges, profit assignments, purchase options and service or consulting agreements.
The reserve banks are technically owned by their member commercial banks, but this is a pure formality.
Though much of this forest is technically owned by the state, the communities have strong rights to it.
Although all news outlets in China are technically owned by the government, in many cases the connection is rather indirect.
Someone who technically owned a 1/60 millionth of a share in the vehicle drove off with it.
Not technically owned or patrolled by anyone, these waters are the last place on earth where you are truly alone.
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A representative of one show said of the guild's decision to permit the Letterman-owned shows back, "Regardless of who technically owns what, they are now intentionally putting us at a competitive disadvantage".
She doesn't technically own her home.
Nor did I technically own the gold Rolex on my wrist.
Thousands of other bad mortgages were bundled in private securitization trusts, frequently with the trusts technically owning the loans and the evicted homeowners owning the property.
There is also unease over what is seen as a cozy relationship between the government — which technically owns all of Hong Kong's land — and tycoons and property developers.
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