Sentences with phrase «blank check»

It is known as a «blank check company,» because investors buy into the fund without knowing which company they will end up owning a part of.

As you may know, many credit card lenders freely offer these to their customers with good credit, in the form of blank checks the borrower is invited to use as they wish.

In other words, companies with no profits or specific prospects have raised $ 14 billion in blank check funding.

You probably get blank checks in the mail once in a while from your card issuer.

Talk to your loved one about not signing blank checks as well.

An urgent plea for the government to write a virtual blank check.

They're much like blank checks you write to creditors or yourself to put cash in your checking account.

The 1994 family comedy Blank Check teaches us a valuable lesson about money and the tendency to underestimate what a modern lifestyle really costs.

Great art depends on walls as well as open doors, on constraints as well as cultural blank checks.

One thing I do agree on is that executive orders are basically blank checks and need to have set strict limits as to when and how they are used.

They have such a big blank check that they just make each other miserable.

Another possibility is a legal department with a complete blank check.

In most cases, your lender will issue you a set of blank checks.

GAZ even operates an in - house classic - car operation that has well - heeled collectors writing blank checks for restored or hand - fabricated recreations of Volga models from bygone eras, and although unlikely, visitors get the sense nothing would make long - time workers more proud than a revival of the brand.

Flores told Newsday last month he supported Trump «because he is not going to give blank checks to these Central American governments where there is so much corruption going on.»

Within months, Ross was taking blank checks from Fox and forgingsignatures.

«I'm fine with that headline, that Google Ventures doesn't write blank checks to YC companies... that Google Ventures negotiates and invests wisely,» said Google Ventures partner Bill Maris in a phone call.

• Cision, a cloud - based media software provider, announced that it plans to raise $ 325 million and become a public company via a merger with blank check company, Capitol Acquisition Corp..

• MTech Acquisition, an Orlando - based blank check company formed to acquire a cannabis - related firm, filed for a $ 50 million IPO of 5 million units.

Xbox team gets handed blank checks.

Such provision and blank check preferred stock may discourage attempts to acquire Forward.

III is a newly organized blank check company founded by Daniel J. Hennessy and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

The very wealthy wallstreeters and bankers received blank checks for trillions.

Blank check funding?

The group Reclaim New York said the state can not afford the governor's «free college tuition blank check.»

«The leaders wrote billions in blank checks while doing nothing» to protect public funds, warned Reinvent Albany.

If there's one sound that conjures Americana, then it's brass, which Desplat uses in a way that's all about mournfulness, as opposed to the kind of blank check patriotism the young woman is rebelling against.

This is how I set up my classroom environment: First ~ I begin with contacting local banks to donate a class set of blank check registers and checkbook covers.

Isn't this when Trump should stop cutting blank checks?

Heck, I wouldn't either if I had a bunch of Fortune 50's writing me open - ended blank checks to keep my armies of associates churning away.

Not included in the March numbers are two of the biggest ICO's - those for popular messaging app Telegram and a seemingly blank check token called EOS by block.one have raised a combined $ 3.2 B so far.

And the beauiful thing is that im sure publishers are giving blank checks to development teams to make games for the ps4 because it will sell.

Likewise, in the series Trust, Fontaine obtained signed blank checks from each of the galleries representing «her» work internationally.

He rejected Madrid even when presented with blank check to sign any players of his choice.

The days of blank checks for the Twerps is rapidly ending.

I don't like writing blank checks.»

• Hennessy Capital Acquisition III, a Wilson, Wyo. - based blank check company seeking to combine industrial manufacturing, distribution or services companies, filed for an IPO Tuesday seeking to raise $ 225 million.

These provisions include «poison pills,» blank check preferreds, super voting common stocks, staggered elections for Boards of Directors, super majority voting provisions, preventing stockholders from convening special meetings, and having the company itself finance all of management's expenditures where there is a contest for control.

III (HCAC III) is a newly organized blank check company founded by Daniel J. Hennessy and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

It also criticized the issuing of blank checks to buy supplies and said there was insufficient accounting of money received in donations and adoption fees.

• Leo Holdings, a London - based blank check company, raised $ 200 million in an IPO of 20 million shares priced at $ 10 a piece.

But he took a blank check and wrote out $ 10 million dollars to himself for acting services rendered and dated it for Thanksgiving 1995.

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya raised $ 600 million in an IPO yesterday for his blank check company, Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings.

III, a blank check company.

He is also the CEO of a new «blank check» public company called Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, which will invest in private technology firms.