Sentences with phrase «company hostage»

VC's will be a bit wary of having small investors who try to hold the company hostage during future financing rounds.

Shervin Pishevar wants to buy out Benchmark, describing the lawsuit as «holding the company hostage» in a leaked letter.

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During the economy's nadir in 2009, French workers of Sony, Caterpillar and other companies held managers hostage to send a message about layoffs and severance pay.

Two Goodyear managers who had been held hostage for more than a day inside a company factory in France regained their freedom Tuesday afternoon after police intervened.

The company's president, Chris Burns, took Red Bull to task for «holding us hostage,» «stepping on our American dream» and «giving us one hell of a corporate wedgie.»

Companies can even be held hostage to bad consumer reviews.

«One of the people in my team demanded 50 % of the company, and held the design files hostage,» Quest says.

«Drivers are basically held hostage to the companies, and they are constantly getting squeezed,» he said.

When one of the co-founders arrived to break the news at the company's office in Pune, a city near Mumbai, he was taken hostage by angry employees who demanded immediate payment of severance packages, technology news site MediaNama reported.

I say surrender charges are a way for insurance companies to hold retirement plans hostage.

Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Capital, Ron Burkle of Yucaipa Companies and Adam Leber of Maverick sent Benchmark a letter accusing the firm of holding Uber employees hostage, and asking the firm to divest its shares.

-LSB-...] We switched to Liquid Web in March 2008 after our previous hosting company basically held our site hostage during the traffic spike and subsequent crash of the Ultimate Blog Party 2008.

The decision to close the plant comes after state officials and Entergy representatives negotiated privately over the last two months to keep the facility open, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo had warned the company not to hold jobs hostage in exchange for tax incentives and credits.

Prescriber prevails is a necessary provision that ensures that anti-psychotic drugs are readily available and not held hostage to an insurance company health plan.

Giving details of the arrest in a statement, the Police said, «Sequel to the kidnapping of Mr. Ubani Onyeama 64 years, a production manager in Niger Delta Petroleum Resources based in PH by unknown gunmen in Woji, Port Harcourt on Saturday 16th October 2017, a ransom call was made to the hostage's company demanding N100million which was paid to the kidnappers despite not getting a proof of life.

Do you ever feel like you're being held hostage by drug companies?

He hires a mystery game party company to come in and take him hostage, which forces the other couples to spend the evening trying to sort out the location of where he's being held.

I didn't like the idea of flashing back to the rest of the Olympics after that stage was perfectly set in the opening scenes of the film, in fact they could have edited the film to have the entire hostage - drama portion before the credits, the flip over to Avner and company and not keep coming back to it.

Arriving an hour late, Falk and company burst onto the scene with excuses and apologies, and somehow, Falk has taken the dinner hostage and begins telling a tale of his time in the Amazon, watching helplessly as Tse Tse flies the size of dogs would snatch up «little brown children in their beaks and fly away.»

It told the fictional tale of a ship taken over by Somali pirates, and the psychological toll it takes on both the hostages and company negotiating for the ship and the lives of the men on board.

However, the company didn't intend to have party crashers, particularly gun - toting German terrorists who want to rob the big boss blind while holding the employees hostage.

Downey stars as dashing billionaire playboy Tony Stark — part Howard Hughes, part Errol Flynn — who leads a life unencumbered by reflection until he's captured and held hostage in Afghanistan by terrorists using his company's weapons.

(Learn more about where to purchase your ISBNs at http://1106design.com/2016/04/isbns-lccns-and-copyright-oh-my/) The company never releases the design files to the author (only the PDF, maybe), and will happily hold the indie author hostage for more money should changes ever be required to those files.

I want the Aura One but until they make a product that lasts only slightly longer than the warranty I just can't part with $ 300 and have my books DRM'd so I must be held hostage to a company with such poor product reliability and length of warranty.

A technology and a class of devices that are held hostage by a handful of companies that lack the wisdom and intelligence to leverage the power of hundreds of thousands of third - party developers.

Making only the minimum payments on credit card accounts each month is a sure way to stay in debt and remain hostage to the credit card companies for decades.

Who wants to be held hostage, he asked darkly, by David Blitzer, head of Standard & Poro's stock index company - selection committee, or by Fed chair Janet Yellen and her doomed (as Grantians believe) cheap - money policies?

He points to several factors: the high price of fossil fuels and the moral desire to wean ourselves off of them; the fear of being held hostage by foreign oil companies; and the new concept that we ought to reduce our carbon footprint.

Europe continues to be taken hostage by destructive fossil fuels and the companies who profit from them, according to Friends of the Earth groups protesting at an informal meeting of European energy ministers in Amsterdam today.

«The government is, in a way, a hostage of the state - owned companies, of coal,» observed Beata Wiszniewska.

It's like how federal law doesn't prohibit taking hostages inside the US to coerce a private company into doing what you want (anti-terrorism laws might, I guess, but the federal hostage - taking law doesn't); while the federal law excludes most hostage - taking in the US, that doesn't mean that it's legal to take hostages.

No insurance company holds us hostage.

The company created a James Bond-esque character and showed him being held hostage.

Scam artists posing as reputable moving companies are taking advantage of consumers, in some cases holding their possessions hostage for more money before they will deliver them.

I checked again, it is quite clear that my plan holds my money hostage until I leave the company.

Despite the obvious bricks and mortar nature of real estate investments, there are many ways hackers can hold hostage or leak proprietary information about a commercial real estate company's clients, finances, staff, and tenants.

The lesson here: Holding employee benefits or employment hostage to coerce participation in a wellness program can get your company in trouble.

-LSB-...] We switched to Liquid Web in March 2008 after our previous hosting company basically held our site hostage during the traffic spike and subsequent crash of the Ultimate Blog Party 2008.