Example sentences of "[that] the [noun sg] of directors " in BNC.
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| 1 | The logic of this means that the majority of directors tend to be account executives — the people with the main responsibility for maintaining contact with the client ( see page 46 ) — rather than heads of departments . |
| 2 | This is a problem that the Institute of Directors has outlined in its survey . |
| 3 | The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company . |
| 4 | Yet the truth is that the board of directors will only very rarely be involved in the day-to-day running of the company which is instead usually entrusted to the officers and executives of the company . |
| 5 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 6 | It can be argued that the board of directors of a limited company is itself a ‘ committee ’ appointed by the shareholders , to the extent that it governs or administers ; |
| 7 | In conclusion , the argument that the duty of directors to act only in the interests of the shareholders operates to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented by the management of the company is fundamentally flawed because the directors have considerable discretion in defining exactly what the interests of the shareholders are . |
| 8 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |