Sentences with phrase «class structures which»

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In November 2009, Facebook's board of directors voted to establish a dual - class stock structure, moving the existing shareholders stock from Class A to Class B shares, which carry 10 times the voting pclass stock structure, moving the existing shareholders stock from Class A to Class B shares, which carry 10 times the voting pClass A to Class B shares, which carry 10 times the voting pClass B shares, which carry 10 times the voting power.

The gaming company, which makes titles such as «Farmville,» said on Wednesday that it was moving from a multi-class structure to a single class, reducing Pincus» control to about 10 percent, down from about 70 percent.

Dual - class share structures, which give controlling shareholders more than one vote per share or designate some shares as non-voting, are particularly unpopular among governance wonks and institutional investors.

Stock market Stronach had little incentive to eliminate its dual - class share structure, which allowed him to control the company despite holding less than 1 % of its equity.

That means that Zynga will no longer be a «controlled company» with a dual class stock structure in which Pincus wields 70 % of the voting power.

The eight members of the Beaudoin - Bombardier family — heirs of Joseph - Armand Bombardier, who invented the snowmobile — control the company through a dual - class share structure that gives class A shares, 54 % of which are owned by the family members, 10 votes apiece.

«We strongly urge Snap to reconsider the proposed structure, and instead go to market with a single - class voting structure, which overall is associated with stronger long - term performance and mechanism for accountability to owners,» said Kenneth A. Bartsch, the executive director for CII.

Dual - class structures are designed to make it difficult or impossible for non-founder shareholders to generate a majority vote, which is needed to make certain changes at the company, such as replacing the CEO.

Yet MVS make for poor accountability and bad corporate governance, which is perhaps why the dual class structure is listed as a risk factor in the IPO prospectus.

It can be argued that mega-mutual fund advisors have been drawn into an alliance with the shareholder empowerment movement on the issues of proxy access and dual class share structures created through IPOs like Snap Inc.'s, which resulted in a class of non-voting shares, simply because of the business opportunity such an alliance represents.

But it also creates a dual class share structure, which has given rise to a broader debate about legal protections for outside shareholders and the role that securities regulators should play in Canadian capital markets.

Also it complains about Simon's «opaque disclosure and disenfranchising dual - class capital structure,» which is maybe a bit rich since Macerich simultaneously adopted a poison pill and staggered board to prevent its own shareholders from voting on Simon's offer.

The BEV, which was derived from the proposed tender offer transaction price of $ 17.00 per share of our common stock and Class A junior preferred stock, was then allocated to our capital structure using the Black -

The BEV, which was derived from the tender offer transaction price of $ 17.00 per share of our common stock and Class A junior preferred stock, was then allocated to our capital structure using the Black - Scholes option - pricing model.

The first is a familiar one: A shareholder group asked Alphabet to scrap its dual - voting structure, proposed four years ago, that clumps most voting power in Class B shares, which are primarily owned by Google co-founders and Alphabet chiefs Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Those talks ended, however, for the same reason Bombardier always has trouble raising private capital — the company's dual class share structure, which cements control firmly in the hands of descendants of company founder Joseph - Armand Bombardier.

Since then, however, Ratner has lost standing with the parent company, long controlled by family members, which in late 2016 announced it was dismantling its two - class share structure and that he would leave the board.

The increasing use of dual - class stock structure, in which founders can have small ownership percentages, but outsized influence over company decisions via voting rights, has played a role.

Here is how the deal was structured: Buffett bought a new class of shares, namely $ 5 billion worth of «perpetual preferred shares», which sported a 10 % dividend yield -LRB-!)

The extreme form of tight and exclusive class structure is the system of caste, in which each person is permanently fixed from birth in a particular group.

There is the unjust distribution of goods and services whereby a relative minority of wealthy groups and ruling classes use their power and influence to perpetuate macroeconomic and political structures which exploit the labor and lives of the vast majority of the planet's populations.

On the matter of redistributing goods and helping others, Theissen argued that in early Christianity we find a merging and mutual correction of two different structures of social benevolence: that of the ancient Near Eastern authoritarian monarchies, in which charity and compassion are shown by the upper classes to the lower classes, and» that of the Greco - Roman republican townships, in which philanthropia is extended between persons of equal social status.

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

When the doctrine of Providence is given a deterministic interpretation the notion of «calling» can too easily be used to justify the particular class structure in which we find ourselves.26

In any search for alternatives it is imperative to analyse not only the existing social relations, that is the class structure, which is the direct result of the capitalist organisation of the economy, but also the pre-capitalist relationships between castes, different ethnic backgrounds, men and women.

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

The structures of the romance genre — which rely upon white, middle - class, able - bodied, and heterosexual norms of social mobility and citizenship through the marriage union — make a nonstereotypical and nondiscriminatory inclusion of black and disabled people quite difficult, since social mobility, rights of citizenship, and marriage are still actively denied to black and disabled people.»

This leads to a polarisation of the employment structure which sees a shrinking middle class.

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

On a positive note: «Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said study co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

Surprisingly, tilivalline shares its chemical structure with a class of soil bacteria metabolites called pyrrolobenzodiazepines, which are already investigated and applied in clinical trials for their antitumor properties.

Donatelli, CAMERA director James Sethian and Zwart developed their M - TIP framework by developing a mathematical generalization of a class of algorithms known as iterative phasing techniques, which are used for determining structure in a simpler problem, known as phase retrieval.

Typical ocean models that incorporate plankton often group them in 10 general size classes, each of which fall into a «two - guild» structure, as either photosynthesizers, or consumers of prey.

Using the potent drug WEHI - 842, we were able to stabilise the protein sufficiently to detail its molecular structure, which will be critical in developing this new class of antimalarial drugs.»

To the researchers» surprise, their calculations showed that turbulent flows of a class of superfluids on a flat surface behave not like those of ordinary fluids in 2 - D, but more like 3 - D fluids, which morph from relatively uniform, large structures to smaller and smaller structures.

Taking a revolutionary «building blocks» approach, researchers have pioneered a way to create a new class of very large polymer molecules, called macromolecules, which assemble themselves into strong, stable structures.

The researchers classified pri - miRNAs into three broad categories based on gene structure: Class I, which are transcribed independently of other genes and likely represent independent transcription units, Class II, which are transcribed as an extension of a protein - coding gene, and Class III, which are transcribed as an extension of a noncoding RNA.

«Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

Then we begin a structured reintroduction to see which classes or kinds of FODMAPs are actually triggering a reaction.

Most antibiotics have two names — the brand name (also known as a trade name) and a generic name which is based on the antibiotic's chemical class / structure.

Our brand has been built on a foundation of consistency, which is evident in the look and feel of our studios, the manner in which they are run, the way staff are carefully selected and trained, our class structures and overall client experience.

As much time is spent on their story arc as any other, which does occasionally blur the thematic resonance of the story to be more about the new culture of India vs. the traditional class and matchmaking structure, but one can also read into this the angle that India, like the building and its residents, is an old country that must also find new life through new ideas, not getting stuck in old ways of thinking at the cost of growth.

It documents her tour of small and rural French towns in the company of a much younger artist (she's 89), named JR, during which they photographed working - class people and posted huge, blown - up images of them on local structures.

The film is structured as a triptych in which each segment stars a different actress (Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and Reichardt regular Michelle Williams), and investigates class division, sexism and unrequited attraction all through her trademark wide - angle prism, via conversations in which the participants talk «past each other.»

«We have fortnightly meetings with executives where she puts on the screen what the line structure's looking like, how many students have enrolled in these classes and which classes therefore are viable and which are not.

Students are encouraged to explore language, structure and theme in these mini-tasks, which allow for class feedback and teacher modelling in between each one.

As a rule, boarding school students follow a highly structured day in which classes, meals, athletics, study times, activities and free time are predetermined for them.

While reviewing the recordings multiple times, a spreadsheet was used to create detailed lesson graphs (as in Jacobs, Hollingsworth, & Givvin, 2007) of each class session, which displayed the content and structure of the lesson.

Janice Gorlach, head of standards at the Carmel Education Trust which includes St Gregory's, said the school was considering changing the structure of its classes in response to what it had learned from Shanghai, by introducing a shorter lesson in the morning with more time later in the day for practice and catch - up sessions for pupils needing extra help.