• The companies he controls--Hollinger Inc. and closely held Ravelston -- have just an 18% economic interest in Hollinger International through Class B shares that have ten times the voting rights of common stock.

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  • Standard economic models predict that in the absence of clearly defined property rights, such common resources will be overexploited, with individuals acting without regard for the effects of their actions on the overall pool.

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  • The sale of freehold land rights is more common in contexts where the land is already under private ownership, which is the case in many Latin American countries.

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  • While the urban elite find use for it (not the least for the bragging rights), for most of the common populace, the apps are not a hot thing at all.

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  • The UN World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005- ongoing), currently in its first phase, seeks to promote a common understanding of the basic principles and methodologies of human rights education, to provide a concrete framework for action and to strengthen partnerships and cooperation from the international level down to the grass roots level.

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  • Economists (including Mr Coase) have tended to emphasise property rights as a solution to the problem of managing common resources.

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  • It got convertible preferred stock in the combined company and took two of seven board seats, 32.7% of voting rights, and an option to convert its holdings into 32.7% of Solo Cup common.

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  • They may receive payment under federal or state civil rights and compensation statutes or under the common law of false imprisonment.

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  • "It's scandalous that out-of-office politicians should keep official bungalows as their private property, " says Hari Dev Shourie, director of Common Cause, a consumer-rights organization.

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  • Beginning on such date, stockholders owning an aggregate of approximately 75, 000, 000 shares will be entitled, under contracts providing for registration rights, to require us to register shares of our common stock owned by them for public sale in the United States, subject to the restrictions of Rule 144.

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  • But I do know and have talked to him generally about his approach to this, which is that he believes we ought to take action on common-sense measures that protect the Second Amendment rights of the American people while making it harder for criminals and others who should not have weapons under existing law -- harder for them to obtain them.

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  • With them, they will receive voting rights and are allowed to exercise the preferred stock if more than 10% of common shares are acquired.

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  • But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common set of values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.

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  • For me, we find those common values and shared principles in the United Nations Charter, as well as the body of international agreements that are the foundation of our common quest for development, peace and security and human rights.

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  • Downgrade rights are common in Microsoft licensing terms and conditions and customers who buy large volumes of Windows operating systems have always been able to roll back to previous versions.

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  • UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.

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  • But a revitalized NATO will continue to hew to that original vision of its founders, allowing us to rally collective action for the defense of our people, while building upon the broader belief of Roosevelt and Churchill that all nations have both rights and responsibilities, and all nations share a common interest in an international architecture that maintains the peace.

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  • Sure, there is a familiar list of gripes: the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, employment law and immigration rights.

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  • And we also need to take some common-sense steps that protect our rights, protect our children, protect officers in the line of duty by making it harder for dangerous criminals to get their hands on lethal weapons.

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  • Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said the judgment was "an excellent result for equal treatment, religious freedom and common sense".

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