Sentences with phrase «to hold»

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

The same holds true in business relationships.

This week, Trump adviser and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recommended that the president should give up on holding press briefings at all.

MONTREAL / SINGAPORE, April 27 - New global packaging standards expected in late 2018 will allow lithium - ion batteries back into passenger plane cargo holds, pending design and regulatory approval, but some airlines say the new rule overlooks other safety concerns.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Among the investors that contributed to Wiivv's $ 3.5 million seed round in December was MAS Holdings, a Sri Lankan company that is one of the largest manufacturers of apparel and footwear for brands like Nike, Victoria Secret and Lululemon.

Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's people hold with the hill folk, but their army is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks are enemy hands.

A web conferencing service allows your business to make presentations, hold meetings and even train people from anywhere in the world.

If businesses don't meet the deadline set by companies including MasterCard, Visa and American Express, they can be held liable for transactions made with phony chip cards.

He started working at the iconic retail behemoth in 1969, holding positions from senior vice president to general counsel to chairman, a role he stepped down from in June after 23 years on the job.

It is scaling down its holdings in Brazil as it takes a new tack in India, attempting to gain a majority position in the online retailer Flipkart.

This is the first space - related investment from lead Accel, which held early investments in technology companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify and Venmo.

Prem Watsa, known as Canada's Warren Buffett, is now the company's fifth - largest shareholder through Fairfax Financial Holdings, the $ 9 - billion insurance and investment firm that he founded in Toronto.

Especially now, with a third of the world's sovereign bonds carrying a negative yield, why would you want to hold foreign paper?

There was also a non-cash gain of $ 133 million from a deal to buy a 37 per cent interest in Canbriam Energy Inc. in exchange for northeastern B.C. mineral land holdings and $ 52 million.

Hold a conference or just throw a party to celebrate reaching a milestone.

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

If you're still overwhelmed, focus on the negatives first — i.e., inefficiencies and psychic anchors holding you back.

As of last September, he held 2.25 % of the company.

Billions of dollars in unclaimed property is being held by states until owners claim it.

With today's pace of change, businesses can't afford to hold on to outdated management structures and workplaces.

Rafiq Jumabhoy, Orkney Holdings chairman and former CEO of Scotts Holdings, talks about the importance of ownership and control structures.

The enterprise, in turn, bears less risk of holding sensitive information.

She must hold a tough line to keep Washington and Beijing on side.

If populism remains a force to be reckoned with across Europe, then member states holding referendums of their own can not be ruled out, especially with issues like immigration and unemployment only growing in salience.

Thirty - two percent of men and 33 percent of women had completed at least a bachelor's degree, and 12 percent of each sex held an advanced degree, according to a 2016 Census Bureau report.

John Burbank's Passport Capital sold 36,577 shares, reducing the firm's holding by 35 percent.

The Facegoogs of the world hold us captive, exploiting our human foibles to draw us into their digital nets.

• Leo Holdings, a London - based blank check company, raised $ 200 million in an IPO of 20 million shares priced at $ 10 a piece.

But Senator Investment Group cut its position by more than half when it sold 875,000 shares and Third Point trimmed its holding by selling 400,000 shares to own 5 million.

Patrick Mylund Nielsen, the lead blockchain engineer at JPMorgan, believes Zcash's zero knowledge proof — based technology holds more promise for privacy than any other single approach he's seen.

With the droopy countenance of a bulldog, Conlee was a pragmatic taskmaster, ensuring deadlines were met and that subordinates were held accountable for screw - ups.

According to Mackenzie Investments, if you invested $ 100,000 in arncorporate class fund that earned 6 % a year, you would have $ 370,268 rnafter 25 years, assuming it's taxed annually at the top marginal rate.rnIf you held an interest - paying investment over the same period, yournwould have made $ 239,841.

And as soon as I was qualified as a pilot I thought, well, at least I can work as a pilot as long as my medical holds.

She holds a doctorate in organization psychology and writes about psychology and the workplace.

Money managers hold record positions in Brent crude futures and options, lured by the hefty premium of the front - month June contract over subsequent months that makes it profitable to invest in crude over the longer term.

Trader Jim Lebenthal, whose «Halftime Report» model portfolio is up more than 30 percent this year, removed General Motors as one of this top holdings for the competition.

Worth noting: A recent poll revealed Cuban and Trump would be neck and neck if an election between the two were held today.

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.

He holds Series 4, 7 and 63 licenses.

His father Fred never graduated from high school and held a series of blue - collar jobs including truck driver, factory worker and cab driver.

Less than three years after opening an office in Perth, United States grain giant Gavilon Holdings has decided to exit the Western Australian market.

Thankfully, with a bit of work and a bit of practice, you can improve your efficiency at holding meetings, and repair the damaged reputation they might have earned in your office.

After the hearing, two deputy United States marshals led Mr. Shkreli to a holding cell adjoining the courtroom.

She held various senior positions at Petro - Canada until she left the company in 1991, going on to serve on numerous corporate boards and start a governance consulting firm.

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.