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Examples of corporation

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Another interesting example is transitive ownership and control of corporations.
In addition, the record reveals that mortgagees could be both land corporations and private persons.
Managers usually design and oversee these roles and responsibilities in corporate organisations, multinational corporations and state-owned enterprises, where ownership is separated from control.
Even under limited liability, therefore, shareholders of corporations that take greater risks will be "penalized" with higher interest rates on corporate borrowing.
A more intimate term is needed to describe the persons whose acts are attributed to the corporation.
Second, the large corporations initiated new mass production techniques that destroyed the market value of the craft skills upon which the union shop strategy depended.
Through these procedures, default subscriptions could become property of the corporation, and then dispensed or auctioned off to other individuals.
Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.
Beside that, the corporation would help the rich people to transform some of their houses into ward hospital for the family members.
In contrast, the corporations operating private prisons inflict sanctions whose severity is determined by the state.
In several areas, the civic corporations had the right to participate in political decision-making and therefore had to be consulted by the city council.
Analysis concentrates on international standards set at multiple international meetings mainly by multinational actors, whether corporations, professional groups or others.
Here advocates of corporate responsibilities would hold that those ties justify special duties on the corporation.
Private and especially corporate sponsors might be courted, and once a sponsor is found, the corporation's products would be advertised in a well-publicised exhibition.
On the one hand, government corporations and corporate look-alikes have always existed.
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Collocations withcorporation

corporation

These are words often used in combination with corporation.

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big corporation
Now a big labor union and a bigcorporation confronted one another over an industrial battlefield.
foreign corporation
It is understood that shares in the line are held by a foreigncorporation.
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