(n.) The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
Example Sentences:
(1) It isn't share ownership but the way people are managed that's critical.
(2) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(4) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(5) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
(6) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
(7) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
(8) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
(9) Concomitant with this changing mix of ownerships, revised reimbursement plans are being proposed for psychiatry.
(10) And for him, that project has to start with a history lesson: he wants to see Labour relearn the lessons of 20 years ago, when Tony Blair fought off objections from the trade unions to redraft Clause IV of the party’s constitution, which had committed it to securing “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange”.
(11) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(12) It is a conflict over ownership of the process of revolutionary change, one that has already brought violence back to Egypt's streets – and which Fahmy's project is wading straight into the middle of.
(13) Results suggest the importance of management effectiveness, regulatory climate, and hospital ownership (investor owned or nonprofit) as predisposing conditions of contract management.
(14) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
(15) "Our ownership model means that we can take a long-term view and we are as driven, determined and ambitious as ever to modernise our business.
(16) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(17) The sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in its US joint venture to its partner Verizon Communications would end 13 years of an often fractious shared ownership.
(18) Japan is already embroiled in a long-running row with China over ownership of the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, and has backed the Philippines and other South East Asian nations alarmed by the Chinese military build-up near disputed territory in the South China Sea.
(19) It is a complex action, as there are a number of landlords covering private apartments and affordable shared-ownership flats.
(20) Local ownership and opportunities for action Organisations that use data to effectively support improvement know that you often need to break it down to the local level to understand variation and make it amenable to action for staff.
Proprietorial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary; as, proprietorial rights.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the speech you won't hear from Mark Thompson – or indeed anyone in British political or regulatory life: "This old proprietorial model, long run by media barons, operated as a form of protection from harsh realities the business might otherwise have faced.
(2) Twenty-seven proprietory periodontal dressings were applied to the lower labial segments of 18 subjects showing low levels of gingival inflammation when assessed by the Gingival Index system at the time of application.
(3) In their submission to the Leveson inquiry , the directors said they saw their presence "as the editorial equivalent of nuclear weapons – a deterrent to possible proprietorial interference" – and they are now using this power.
(4) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
(5) I half expected him to bend down and pat the grass, the way a person, tender and proprietorial, might pat a blanket when they have finished making a bed.
(6) From 1982-1988, the authors carried out a randomized double blind trial on altogether 565 cases of CHD divided into an experimental group to be treated with SSTGP and a control group treated with another TCM proprietory medicine, Dan Qi Pian, that had been used for many years clinically.
(7) It is an odd smile: at once shivery and proprietorial.
(8) Nor can she take consolation from the knowledge that the Mirror has survived serious decline several times before - for on each occasion only the derring-do of a real or quasi-proprietorial figure restored its upward momentum.
(9) The only country in the EU to escape recession since the financial and then the euro crises erupted in 2008, Poland is thriving at a time of universal European gloom, using a new-found confidence to build European alliances to encourage democratic reforms in neighbouring Ukraine and Belarus and to contest Putin's proprietorial policies towards parts of the former Soviet Union.
(10) I don’t have any owner’s rights on the TV series or the character, I’m not proprietorial about it.
(11) They took more proprietory medicines and more vitamin pills and were less inclined to ignore symptoms.
(12) Sometimes the narrative voice is proprietorial, using a royal "we" to speak of Tod.
(13) But if it wants to influence what happens there, staking a claim to almost proprietorial privilege is not the way.
(14) I've become proprietorial about the Quo and want the crowd to love every song.
(15) He gives his new hairstyle a proprietorial pat, which suggests both contentment and the lingering astonishment he seems so keen to bury in conversation.
(16) "We are all struggling to free ourselves from the proprietorial attitudes of the US and UK that continue to dominate the publishing world," said Juliet Rogers, chief of one of Australia's largest independent publishers Murdoch Books, and former president of the Australian Publishers Association.
(17) He has a kind of proprietorial energy more common to a film-maker than an actor.
(18) Therefore SSTGP is a new, safe and effective TCM proprietory remedy for CHD and angina pectoris.
(19) They took the platform of the Frankfurt Book Fair to protest the "proprietorial" and dominating presence of the larger book companies .
(20) "It is always about the proprietorial impulse," he said.