Sentence examples for which owned from inspiring English sources

Power was shifting from the aristocracy, which owned the land, to the middle class, which owned the factories.

Ross, who died in 1992, was the chairman of Warner Communications, which owned the original Cosmos.

For years, its board was controlled by Lehman, which owned a quarter of the firm.

In 1965, the entire company was bought by RCA, which owned NBC.

Four years later Allied purchased Union Texas Natural Gas, which owned oil and gas properties.

Why should a gas company which owned a financial-services business buy a motoring club?

The Brandt family, which owned many of the theatres, sued and lost.

The bank approached Citicorp, which owned Citistar, a special financial vehicle in the Cayman Islands.

But the Ferragamo family, which owned Ungaro, dismissed him during an internal struggle in 2004.

It acquired Jacobs Suchard, which owned Toblerone and Milka chocolates, for $4.2 billion in 1990.

Curtis Publishing, which owned The Saturday Evening Post, tried, unsuccessfully, to claim ownership of the paintings.