(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.
Stewardship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a steward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dustin Benton Dustin Benton, head of resource stewardship, Green Alliance Creating a circular economy will take action in three areas: the economy, policy and politics, and innovation.
(2) Picking positives from a third successive league loss, the first time Chelsea have endured that since Gianluca Vialli’s stewardship, must have felt onerous even if Willian was excellent once again and Eden Hazard – for all that he has gone 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal – arguably produced his best performance of the season.
(3) Environmental stewardship and sustainability are part of our business model and core to our operations,” Barra said in GM’s annual sustainability report last year.
(4) Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship.
(5) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
(6) I have to deal with it one step at a time and I will do that even more when the cameras are not on me all the time.” Dortmund won the league and the German Cup twice and reached the Champions League final in 2013 under Klopp’s stewardship.
(7) Although Speed had presided over five victories and five defeats in his 10 matches in charge of the principality, there were plenty of encouraging signs in Speed's stewardship, not least that four of the wins came in the past five games, with an unlucky 1-0 defeat by England at Wembley the only blemish.
(8) He has pledged to change the culture of the bank, linking bonuses to new values of respect, integrity, service, excellence and stewardship.
(9) Point one stated: “BBC Three is not closing and BBC Three is not for sale.” One of the trust’s key obligations under the current BBC charter is to “exercise rigorous stewardship of public money”.
(10) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(11) Heydon’s stewardship of the commission ran into significant controversy after it was revealed a fortnight ago that he planned to speak at a Liberal party fundraiser, the Sir Garfield Barwick lecture.
(12) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
(13) While ahead in the voting intention polls, Miliband's lead is often said to be soft because he is consistently behind on the twin questions of leadership and economic stewardship, which are generally thought to settle elections.
(14) Terry, such a peripheral figure when hampered by injury under the interim stewardship of Rafael Benítez last season, has revived under Mourinho and started 34 Premier League games last term, playing some of the most consistent football of his career.
(15) We thought they were unlimited, some kind of permanent gift to the human race from God, so we could display our stewardship, or something.
(16) The leadership culture in banking has to change to one of stewardship, rather than one of cashing in.” Deborah Hargreaves, the director of the High Pay Centre, said the deal was “way over the top”.
(17) Turnover Crystal Palace Accounts of CPFC 2010 Ltd for the year to 30 June 2015 • Ownership Steve Parish and US investors David Blitzer and Joshua Harris control the holding company; individual stakes not disclosed • Turnover 14th highest in League £102m , up from £90m in 2014 • Income Gate and match-day income £10m; Broadcasting & FA and PL income £80m; Sponsorship & advertising £4m; Commercial £5m; Other income £4m • Wage bill 15th highest in League £68m , up from £46m in 2014 • Wages as proportion of turnover 67% • Profit before tax £8m , following £23m profit in 2014 • Net debt £0 (£18m cash in bank) • Interest payable £0 • Highest-paid director No directors were paid State they are in: Palace finished 10th in 2014-15, maintaining their bounce under the shrewd stewardship of Steve Parish and his three fellow investors, all lifelong fans, who bought the club out of administration in 2010.
(18) The debutant Danny Rose and the unused substitute Kyle Walker made up the contingent who are so thriving under Pochettino’s stewardship at White Hart Lane, although 11 of England’s last 19 debutants have actually come under the Argentinian’s tutelage at some stage.
(19) We want cooperation instead of competition, common instead of corporate interest, solidarity instead of greed, strong social relationships instead of meaningless consumption, mindful resource stewardship instead of extractivism and compassion instead of indifference.
(20) In contrast, he had nothing but positive comments to make about Britain's stewardship of the Olympics, mentioning the "fantastic hospitality" and singling out the volunteers for special praise.