Sentence examples for williams act from inspiring English sources

To the contrary, the Williams Act was a simple and narrow law.

Justice White's Misreading of the Williams Act in Edgar v. MITE Corp.

The Williams Act also regulates tender offers (SEA §14(d)/ e)).

Still others would redefine the term "group" under the Williams Act to include those who act in a consciously parallel fashion.

The Williams Act does not give hostile offerors a substantive right to have their offers succeed, and does not even give shareholders a right to receive such offers.

In 1968, Congress passed the Williams Act, updating the Securities Exchange Act to regulate tender offers by specifying the actions the offeror company and target board must take.

Sometimes, Williams acts as if he were still an oblivious 17-year-old from Puerto Rico, signing as a free agent with the Yankees.

The main element of the charge is that Mr. Williams acted recklessly, or was aware of and disregarded risk that his conduct would cause Mr. Christofi's death.

Shaplin and others have issues with the portrait of women in The Crucible, which imagined that Abigail Williams acted out of jealousy and desire for revenge, following her brief sexual liaison with farmer John Proctor.

He said Mr. Williams acted recklessly by opening the gun's two barrels and then snapping them closed while Mr. Christofi and four other men were standing near him in the bedroom.

Mr. Lember argued that the prosecution had proved that Mr. Williams acted recklessly -- a legal prerequisite for the two manslaughter charges against him -- by keeping three loaded shotguns and a loaded rifle in a gun cabinet in his bedroom.