Sentences with phrase «by minority interests»

However, these companies are far from the only ones affected by minority interests.

Not exact matches

Certain proposed transactions, including the divestiture of Humana's subsidiary, KMG America Corporation, the acquisition of a minority interest in Kindred Healthcare, Inc.'s Kindred at Home division by Humana, as well as the acquisition of a minority interest in Curo Healthcare Services by Humana are subject to various closing conditions, including various regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, as well as other uncertainties, and there can be no assurances as to whether and when these transactions may be completed.

On Thursday, Pandora said it was exploring interest that had been expressed by an unnamed strategic investor in making a «substantial minority investment.»

By adjusting for minority interest liabilities, one can better understand the value of the stock to shareholders.

Run by a US - educated Kurdish financier, Baghdad - based Rabee Securities ran the only significant deal on the Iraq Stock Exchange last year when it listed Asiacell Telecommunications to allow majority shareholder Qatar Telecom to acquire minority interests for $ 1.3 billion.

Minority limited partnership interests in private equity funds are highly illiquid until fully realized and redeemed by the general partner.

The constitutional question concerns the relation between an evangelical baker's freedom to exercise his religion and how that freedom is limited by the public's interest in non-discrimination against certain minorities.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

For the minority who take an active interest in the Liturgy, read Catholic articles and follow news within the Church, I suspect that the people who are delighted by the new ICEL will far outnumber those who are opposed to it.

In North America, where Orthodoxy is a tiny minority, it is often easier to learn about the faith through the Internet than from the nearest Orthodox priest, who may be a long drive away, speak poor English, or be baffled by the very existence of a «regular American» interested in the Church.

In fact, if Christian witness in public life is the goal, this teaching ministry is to be preferred to the clerical leaders of the church controlling the decisions and activities of their lay members by communal dictate which is usually based on communal minority self - interests and rights and not on concern for the total neighbourhood.

I agree that it's frustrating that so often, stories of minority hardships are only given credibility and interest when told by majority voices.

It is an interest shared by all the other minority voices in the country.

Ken Ofori - Attah, in responding to the issue in Parliament, stated that the issuance was transparent and was done in accordance with the laid down procedures governing the issuance of bond and government securities in the country, adding that there was no conflict of interest, as he «had no direct dealings with the investors» as alleged by the minority in Parliament.

Founded to represent the material interests of the majority at a time when politics was entirely dominated by a wealthy minority, it's still the party best placed to deliver the future most voters desire.

Neglecting these «output» and «input» aspects of legitimacy and giving priority instead to a euronationalist justification of a European sovereignty in the making could also turn out to be detrimental to individual freedoms: the illusion of homogeneity it would produce could incite European citizens to support policies sold by political leaders as being in the interest of the European «community» or «people», but actually only serving a tiny minority.

Two members of the Yonkers City Council, Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and Minority Leader Mike Breen, both commented recently that while they have no desire to overturn term limits, or modify term limits to allow a third four - year term, if someone were interested in doing so, they should do it by a referendum and not by a council vote.

A federal jury in Brooklyn found that the Emigrant Savings Bank had discriminated against eight minority homeowners by purposefully marketing to them subprime mortgages with what were described as predatory interest rates of as much as 18 percent a year.

Since 2015, Franklin Templeton having Trevor Trefgarne as Non-Executive Director purchased bonds issued by the NDC Government, now Ghanaians want to know from the Minority MPs, if there was any form of conflict of interest and conspiracy between Seth Terkper, Ato Forson, Trevor Trefgarne and Ken Ofori - Atta to enriched themselves at the detriment of the Nation within that period?

The allegation of conflict of interest by the Minority MPs against the Finance Minister is very lameness and Dead Goat in Character.

In 2012, Eisner signed off on a $ 3.5 million settlement after Bharara's office alleged that GFI Mortgage Bankers, a company that originates loans and has been led by Eisner since 1983, charged higher interest rates and fees on mortgages to minority borrowers than to whites with similar financial profiles.

The Minority have suggested that the domestic bonds might have been marred by issues of conflict of interest while concerns have been raised about the prospect of leveraging the countries mineral deposit in the deal with China.

The bi-partisan Committee probing the extortion claims was enveloped by controversy when its Minority members decided to prepare and leak a separate report that indicted some stakeholders of interests in the probe, including the Ministry of Trade and the organizers of the awards scheme, the Millennium Excellence Foundation.

Alarmingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, those elected by the majority to run local police forces are frequently unconcerned with the interests of minority groups.

The Republican Caucus, led by Minority Leader John J. Mills, has grown continually frustrated by Legislators and opportunists who have attempted to ignore the will of the people and as a result hindered efforts to present a fair map in a timely manner that would allow interested candidates to become involved in the process.

According to the Minority in Parliament, the committee, led by Philip Addison, entangled itself in a conflict of interest position having been sponsored for their air travel, hotel and per diem by the company it was investigating.

The fact that Cuomo has so far shown no interest in coming to Somos adds insult to the injury caused by the lack of any minorities on the statewide Democratic ticket, Ortiz said.

Solidifying his reputation as a trivia machine, Paterson reeled off the project's projected (and disputed, by some) stats — on jobs and housing units and the percentage of minority contracts — to the point of almost losing the crowd's (and Jay - Z's) interest.

According to the statement signed by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, the caucus has resolved to go all lengths «to bring the originator of this offensive, mischievous and divisive statement to order in the supreme national interest».

by Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R - Canandaigua) Defying federal policy by attempting to shield illegal immigrants from the law does not protect the interests of New Yorkers.

«I'm above the average minority senator,» Mr. Espaillat said in an interview, pointing to statistics kept by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Some of the remarks suggested that the redistricting process, as directed by the courts in the absence of competent execution by the legislature, was systematically discriminatory against the interests of minority voters.

The Minority raised issues of possible conflict of interest following the purchase of 95 % of the bonds by Mr. Trefgarne who is a Director of Franklin Templeton and a Board Chairman of Enterprise Group.

Concerns had been raised especially by the Minority about the transparency of the $ 2.25 billion domestic bond with some noting that the apparent secrecy over the deal fueled the allegations of conflict of interest against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta.

The party is effectively controlled by Mr. Cuomo and some liberals groused that Mr. Paterson seemed less interested in helping Democrats in the State Senate, where he once served as minority leader.

In 2003, she was hired by Rhodes College in Memphis as a William Randolph Hearst teaching fellow, a 1 - year program that supports minority candidates interested in teaching careers.

But Merzenich's greatest commercial hit could come with a $ 395 treatment called the Brain Fitness Program, marketed by Posit Science, in which he has a minority interest.

It practices this principle in the selection and promotion of its employees and by opening its membership to all who are interested; by encouraging its nominating committees to nominate both women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers for the elective positions; and by attempting to increase the participation of women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers in all of its activities.

It practices this principle in the selection and promotion of its employees and by opening its membership to all who are interested; by encouraging its nominating committees to nominate women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers for elective positions; and by attempting to increase the participation of women, minority, and handicapped scientists and engineers in all of its activities.

Minority students looking for research experience and interested in math and science careers, should check out the Research Alliance in Math and Science Program, sponsored by Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab.

Encouraged by the interest and contributions of the ASCB to this effort, Anderson provided additional funds from his Howard University / Rockefeller (HUROC) grant to support minority activities at the Annual Meeting.

Which is to say that the film's interpretation of apartheid may reflect most poorly on the film not because it's wrong but because it's intellectually lazy and, here's the real kicker, LESS INTERESTING than it would have been to show the aliens as not yet another oppressed minority (which has been done to death) but a mass suppressed by an elite group, made to feel like an «other» when, in fact, it's imprisoned in its own homeland.

The real interest, if there is any, is that Benny is Aboriginal; I don't think I've seen this character played by that minority before.

His hot wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale, Wiseman's own hot wife) comments on her hotness at one point in a way that speaks true to every man's insecurity about having married up; and his world, devastated by a chemical war that has left only two habitable places (luckily, neither houses many minorities — and how much more interesting is this movie instantly if the two places left are Japan and Sudan?)

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

Such timely and comprehensive data are important for educators and policymakers interested in outcomes of secondary education and access to postsecondary education, particularly for students from low income and minority populations traditionally not well served by higher education.

He believes that a BAME teacher's skills are first «acknowledged and then endorsed / promoted» by a white individual who acts as a «broker» on behalf of the interests of the minority ethnic individual.

«Let's call this move what it is: a pivot in the wrong policy direction to pander to a sizable interest group — teachers» unions — that comes at the expense of mostly low - income, minority kids who desperately need high - quality school options,» Francesca Jarosz Brady wrote in an op - ed published by The Hill on Nov. 13.

«They drank some Kool - Aid that has been fresh squeezed for them by the most powerful political interest in California, the California Teachers Assn.,» she said, adding that improving schools for minorities and the poor should be a priority for the party.

But a few years ago, the Fairfax school system eliminated another program, known as Quest, which sought to spark interest in TJ by taking minority students to the campus several times a month for science and math programs.