Sentences with phrase «by ceding companies»

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The same can't be said of Ottawa, which is trying at once to attract investment and diversify Canada's export markets without ceding control of our resources to companies controlled by powerful foreign governments (read: China).

At the same time, these founders wind up ceding control of their companies by giving up large chunks of equity in exchange for cash and other resources from their investors.

Last month, the committee stalled a hostile takeover of Qualcomm, a California - based chip maker, by a Singapore company, largely over concerns about ceding semiconductor prowess to China.

Despite being the result of public research, golden rice is enmeshed in around seventy patents owned by some thirty - two companies and institutions, according to the US - based International Service for the Acquisition of Agri - biotech Applications (ISAAA).4 Because of the complexity of licensing arrangements, the inventors ceded their rights to Greenovation, a biotech spin - off company from the University of Freiburg, which then struck a deal with AstraZeneca (now Syngenta).

• Some schools have ceded almost total control of their staff and finances to for - profit management companies that decide how the schools» money is spent... • Many management companies also control the land and buildings used by the schools — sometimes collecting more than 25 percent of a school's revenue in lease payments, in addition to management fees... • Charter schools often rely on loans from management companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they oversee...

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

The plan to create new stocks is a popular way for certain shareholders to raise capital by selling their shares without ceding control of the company and retaining the majority vote.

A yearly renewable term plan of reinsurance is a type of proportional reinsurance under which mortality risks are ceded by a primary insurer (ceding company) to a reinsurer.

Because you are technically still covered by your auto insurance company, whether or not your policy is ceded over to the Facility, the coverage options are mostly the same.

The company this spring ceded to partner demands by making the Alexa 7 - Mic Far Field Development Kit available to third - party hardware makers who wanted to build far - field voice operated products faster.

By equating software changes with hardware updates, the company has continuously ceded ground to rivals who can tweak and experiment endlessly to see what sticks.