Sentence examples for took executives from inspiring English sources

In 2009, workers took executives at Caterpillar France hostage during a dispute over the restructuring of operations in Grenoble.

As early as 1999, Ms. Westine took executives to Austin, set up a Bush advisory board on technology and put advertisements in California newspapers urging him to run.

He had an evident fascination with Hollywood; he took executives to a Beverly Hills cigar club to show them his personal humidor locker, which bore both his name and Arnold Schwarzenegger's.

At Morgan Stanley, "furious" institutional shareholders took executives to task last year, questioning why compensation could not be lowered to about 30 percent of revenue from 51 percent, according to Reuters.

In June Haque and his partners took executives from eight portfolio companies on a two-week business-building mission to his native India.

He took executive action to shield some young students from deportation.

Fortunately, in 2012, President Barack Obama took executive action, signing a memorandum that granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca).

He brought up the Emancipation Proclamation, saying it took executive action when Congress wouldn't act, and he compared the debt ceiling to that.

President Obama took executive action last November to further ease policies around skilled tech labor.

Finally, under pressure from immigrant rights groups, Obama took executive action to shield many from deportation.

After retirement, we took executive positions in counterintelligence and counterterrorism for the Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore Lab from 2001 to 2007.