In 1536, he was arrested, tried for heresy and strangled and burnt at the stake.
But the stake was a conspicuous, and at times volatile, item in Goldman's quarterly results.
In the first quarter of 2012, he reduced the stake a further 34.46 percent.
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If you fail at business, the popular press, generally speaking, burns you at the stake.
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Vanke, China's largest developer by revenue, will buy the stake from Singapore's Keppel Land Ltd.
The Count orders her burned at the stake, and Azucena is taken into custody.
We are well aware of the stake that you as investors have in our success.
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The French firm had inherited the stake when it bought Orange from Vodafone last year.
Reportedly, the stake sale will be at a substantial discount, estimated between 30% to 50%.
However, the Japanese firm had requested Lenovo to grant it permission to offload the stake.
Forget the idea of burning unsuccessful but honest executives and entrepreneurs at the stake.
In June bailiffs ordered the stake auctioned to pay the compensation, without setting a date.
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Fortunately today, innovators do not get burned at the stake, exiled to islands or made into slaves.
Federal antitrust regulators approved the purchase with the caveat that Comcast must divest the stake by 2007.
Nicky Oppenheimer, representing the family, said it was a "momentous and difficult decision" to sell the stake.
In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
But BSkyB indicated it would exercise its option to sell the stake back to Kirch later this year.
There will certainly be a large capital gain on the stake (it has indeed been an excellent investment).
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The much-delayed deal went through after the Greek-Czech fund, the sole bidder for the stake, raised its offer.
We usually associate heretic with religion, namely, the Roman Catholic Church: Inquisition, burning people at the stake, etc.
The stake sales may reverse the losing streak of these airline tycoons and perhaps restore their ten-figure fortunes.
Being curious could get you burned at the stake in the Dark Ages.
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Italian astronomer Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who argued that the universe was infinite, was burned at the stake.
The first round of bidding for the stake in Thai Life closed Monday.
Privco says sources have told the firm the stake is less than 5%.
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The trust, VEBA, got the stake under terms of the 2009 bailout of Chrysler by Fiat and the U.S. taxpayer.
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However, Matt Williams, a fund manager at Perpetual Trustees said taking the stake "is definitely a precursor to a takeover".
The first round of bidding for the stake in Thai Life closed Monday, people with knowledge of the auction said.
The stake sale would be a major reprieve for Kingfisher which has been in what seemed like a death spiral.
But Marc might feel the stake is too small to justify basically shutting down his VC firm for a few years.
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