Drugmakers limited declines after Novartis AG said it will take full control of Alcon Inc., ending an 11-month dispute with minority shareholders.

制药板块跌幅有限，诺华制药公司表示将完成对爱尔康集团的收购，终结和少数股东长达11个月的纷争。

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Enel, an Italian utility, is buying out minority shareholders in Spain's Endesa, for example, and PepsiCo has bid for full control of its two biggest bottling affiliates.

意大利公共事业公司—国家电力公司买下了西班牙电力公司少数股东的所有股份；而百事也在争取获得其两大最大灌装分公司的全权控制力。

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Of course, there are cases where something out of the owner's control has gone terribly wrong, but I have found those instances to be in the minority.

当然，我不否认在有些案例中，是出现了超出业主控制范围的严重问题，但是我发现这是少数情况。

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A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

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Ms Sturgeon has been at the heart of government, playing a key role when the SNP won minority control in 2007 and again when it won a majority in 2011.

BBC: Scotland politics

Addressing wider concerns about Venezuela's prison system, Ms Varela has said that violent inmates were "a minority who maintain control through terror".

BBC: Venezuela pledges action after 25 die in prison riot

The reasoning: A minority owner lacks control of the asset, can't liquidate it, can't get income from it unless the business makes a distribution and can't sell it easily.

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