Sentences with phrase «holding minority positions»

Indeed, some industry watchers, like fiscal policy expert Jack Mintz, say state - owned enterprises should be limited to holding minority positions in certain sectors.

Not exact matches

Gertner got back into the cannabis business in 2014 with PharmaCan (now Cronos Group), a holding company that acquires or buys minority positions in licensed Canadian marijuana producers.

Among the various positions held by him, Mr. Khattar was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Singapore Business Federation and a member of the President Council for Minority Rights.

Mr Lord said usually when companies realised they could not get a majority position, there was little motivation to retain their minority holding.

Under his leadership, women were recruited and promoted to such a degree that women held five of the top six most highly paid and prestigious positions in the Assembly minority staff.

Despite the electoral setback suffered by her party, Pelosi sought to continue leading the House Democratic Caucus in the position of Minority Leader, the office she held prior to becoming Speaker.

Gold, who was born in Poland and moved to Brooklyn from Israel, has held the position since 1975 with his goal always being to opening up the party to younger members and minorities.

He has been Assembly minority leader since 2009, a position that holds little power, but affords a bully pulpit to push issues.

And now that his Battery Park City service, which Mr. Thompson estimated was taking up 8 to 10 hours a week, is drawing to an end, the only public - service position he will hold is chairman of a state committee on minority - and women - owned businesses.

AV hands some power to minorities but not in a direct accountable and democratic way; in an unaccountable and undemocratic way because these parties do not get more representatives elected (which are therefore in a position to be held to account) they just wield power as ginger groups whose second preferences are needed.

The Washington Post did not receive comment about those claims from the offices of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) or Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.), who has held Menendez's position on the Foreign Relations Committee since Menendez stepped aside.

For the past 15 years, dating to when David A. Paterson was elected leader of the Senate Democrats, that position has been held by a member of a minority group.

MiSciNet: A small number of minority scientists hold postdoc positions in national laboratories and academia.

Another thing that was a bit off - putting (and I mean this in a strictly historical and filmcraft way), the film seemed to go out of its way to stamp our current morals, mores and politically - correct culture to events supposedly taking place in 18th - Century France (with minorities holding high positions in the Parisian Court and even an openly gay character introduced).

Like its (effective) 45 % minority position in Digicel Holdings (Central America) Limited («DHCAL»), which is controlled by O'Brien & provides cellular services in Panama — despite continued losses & a write - off of its equity investment (in 2011), Digicel has continued to fund DHCAL with another $ 119 million (in interest - free cash loans) in the past 3 years, with an additional $ 23 million of loans in just the latest quarter.

The judge accepted the proposition that ``... in any event, nothing in the 1996 Act (or elsewhere) obliged teachers to adopt a position of studied neutrality between, on the one hand, scientific views which reflect the great majority of world scientific opinion and, on the other, a minority view held by a few dissentient scientists.»

In state courts, women are also a significant minority, holding only 27 % of all state court judicial positions.

On the other hand, in her concurring minority decision, Justice Feldman opined that the trial judge was in fact entitled to find that the Home Depot position was so substantially inferior to the managerial position Ms. Brake had held with PJ — M2R Restaurant Inc. that it should not be considered in mitigation.

DeJonker has a strong commitment to public service and holds leadership positions with several minority and diversity organizations, including the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).

In 2009, the Republican Minority Leader appointed her to be a part of his leadership team as the Assistant Minority Whip, a position she still holds.