Meanings of own the majority in English

There's no way currently to safeguard against government surveillance if a few corporations own the majority of our personal data.

In the United States, insiders can control public companies even when they no longer own the majority of the shares.

Equally importantly, he enjoys the support of the Porsche-Piech family clan who own the majority of the voting rights in VW.

Creditors include investors that own the majority of Nortel's $4.2 billion of bond debt.

Two private equity firms, Permira Holdings and Apax Partners, own the majority of New Look since they bought the chain in 2004.

Under the current proposal, ASX shareholders will own about 36 of the combined company whereas SGX shareholders will own the majority 64 percent.

The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase an additional 4.35 million shares from the original investors, who will still own the majority stake.

CBOE owns the majority of the CBOE Stock Exchange; several financial companies also have stakes.

Falcone already owns the majority of Harbinger Group.

Telstra owns the majority of the bandwidth available.

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, the U.S. bank's infrastructure investing arm, owns the majority stake in Eureka Hunter.

Denton owns the majority of the company.

The bank owned the majority of the stock, so they were the equivalent of employees of the bank.

The Brazilian government owns the majority of Petrobras shares, and controls the company with seven of 10 seats on the board.

GSK and Human Genome share rights to Benlysta, while GSK owns the majority of the commercial upside to the other products.

My father and his brother owned the majority of the sloops engaged in this, at that time, almost the only transportation.