What's the difference between corporation and guildhall?
Corporation
Definition:
(n.) A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
Example Sentences:
(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(3) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(4) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(5) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(6) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(7) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(8) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
(9) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
(10) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(11) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(13) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(14) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(15) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
(16) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(17) Ian Read, Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, said the tax structure would protect AstraZeneca's revenues from the 38% rate of corporation tax in the US.
(18) Of the three main parties, the most promising ideas are housing zones and self-build for the Conservatives, Labour’s new homes corporations, and the strong garden cities offer from the Liberal Democrats .
(19) Given the importance of knowing the corporal composition according to the model of the four components (fat, mineral, fat free and aqueous) the same was calculated in 220 women and 130 men, considered as normal, between the ages of 15 and 49.
(20) In contrast, corporate support was positively correlated with the number of hours of total work per week, but negatively correlated with the amount of time currently devoted to research.
Guildhall
Definition:
(n.) The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
Example Sentences:
(1) The HLF is giving £935,700 to the Dylan Thomas centre which opened in the city's former Guildhall in 1995 and is run in partnership with the University of Wales .
(2) Grim Lib Dem activists leaning quietly at the bar talked of faint hopes of holding on to one of their two seats, while the Green party MEP Keith Taylor sat on his own on a folding chair at the front of the art deco Guildhall, waiting to learn if he was newly unemployed.
(3) Among the high-ranking officials scheduled to meet Hoban in the Guildhall, in the heart of the City, tomorrow, are senior figures from international banking groups Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank , Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse as well domestic players such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Capital which have large investment banking businesses.
(4) The supreme court's current chief executive, Jenny Rowe, has been widely praised for helping establish the court after the judges moved out of the House of Lords in 2009 to the former Middlesex Guildhall in Westminster, directly opposite parliament.
(5) To be the true global champion of free trade in this new modern world, we also need to do something to help those families and communities who can actually lose out from it.” Britain cannot afford to stand still in the era of such vast and sweeping changes to political orthodoxy, May will say at London’s Guildhall.
(6) Speaking in Guildhall Square, he said the party hopes to win Itchen at the next election “whenever it is called”, and added: “September is fine by me.” He told the crowd: “If the Conservatives are unable to govern, they should step aside.
(7) The singer and the Canadian film-maker travelled from their home in Berkshire in a black car, arriving at the Windsor guildhall to be greeted by crowds of fans.
(8) The influence of the corporation is underlined by speeches by the prime minister, the chancellor, and the mayor of London who outline their plans at sumptuous banquets in the Guildhall or Mansion House.
(9) She was taken to hospital following the incident outside the Turtle Bay restaurant in Guildhall Square on 18 September.
(10) A temporary exhibition opens this week in the Guildhall, near the site, and next year a permanent new visitor centre will open, possibly on the same day that the russet bones are re-interred in a newly designed tomb in the cathedral.
(11) Daniel Craig in brief Born 2 March 1968 Career Studied at the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
(12) He left school and his native Chester at 16 to pursue acting, first at London’s National Youth Theatre, then at Guildhall.
(13) Among gay celebrities, Sir Elton John and David Furnish will plight their troth on December 21 at Windsor Guildhall, where Prince Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles.
(14) At 1pm, about 80 porters walked into the Guildhall and sat on the public seats.
(15) I think this is a matter for the German government as it is for the Australian government to manage in their own way.” Turnbull’s response came in answer to a question to both himself and Merkel about whether Europe had anything to learn from Australian border control policies, and whether the chancellor accepted Abbott’s advice about the risks of “misguided altruism”, which was delivered at the second Margaret Thatcher Lecture at London’s Guildhall in October.
(16) Family and friends held a protest vigil outside Derry's Guildhall on Friday.
(17) If you were in the Guildhall Square in the group that was involved in this attack and you haven’t come forward yet, you will be a suspect.
(18) Further business meetings and banquets Xi will then visit Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese telecommunications company, followed by a banquet hosted by the Lord Mayor and the City of London at the Guildhall.
(19) There was another big entrance this week when the fourth season of Game of Thrones had its European premiere at the Guildhall i n London on Tuesday evening.
(20) Barry Ife, principal of the Guildhall school of music and drama in London's Barbican, said: "It takes time to develop an artist: in the case of singers, it's a question of physical maturity as well as emotional and artistic maturity.