Sentence examples for that could be exercised from inspiring English sources

At Comverse, favored employees were given options that could be exercised overnight for millions in profits, prosecutors said.

Including restricted share units and other securities that could be exercised in the coming months, the company's market value was over $28 billion.

In addition, he has 100,000 options to buy shares at $54.50, slightly above the current price, that could be exercised now.

The sourcing agreement between Ocado and Waitrose is due to run until 2020 but there is a break clause that could be exercised in 2017.

The grant, much of it awarded to partners, gave options that could be exercised in one-third installments in January 2010, January 2011 and January 2012.

Finally there was his client's Sixth Amendment right to the attorney of his choice -- a right that could be exercised only if Mr. Bhalla forfeited his own rights.

Speaking as someone who has specifically chosen that course and who is grateful to have lived in an age where that choice could be exercised, it is quite clear to me that the word 'childless' is loaded with assumptions; that reproducing is the norm, something to which everyone aspires, and that to be without children is clearly to have failed.

That put would be "in the money"–meaning that it could be exercised for an immediate profit of $9.75 by forcing the stock at $70 into the hands of whoever wrote that put.

At the end of 2000, he had 5.1 million options that could have been exercised for profits of $257.5 million, and another 1.5 million options that would have been worth another $104.1 million when enough time had passed that they could be exercised -- assuming the share price stayed level.

A Televisa spokesman had no comment on the regulatory outlook, but stressed that the debentures could be "exercised piecemeal".

The Obama administration announced last summer that "prosecutorial discretion" could be exercised to halt the deportation of prospective immigrants in same-sex relations (along with DREAM Act students and others).