Issuance of the 4 1 / 16 % Debentures generated net proceeds of approximately $ 195. 0 million, a portion of which were used to repurchase $ 124. 7 million of the 4 % Notes in January 2010.

Sometimes, it includes instruments which are initially issued with interest obligation ( e. g. Debentures ) but the same can later be converted into capital.

Additionally, Silverstar has reported that it is in default on its repayments on both its 2008 and 2006 Debentures

The frequently postulated antique worry that the daylight hours might dwindle to complete darkness apparently gave rise to a ritual and celebration which we still recognize.

This notion of the General Will gave rise to the Commune of Paris in the Revolution and later brought Napoleon to dictatorship.

The latter procedure gave rise to a small active protein peak ( Region 1a ) between Regions 1 and 2.

In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.

The Aramaic gave rise to Hebrew.

The Greek alphabet, in its Euboean form, was carried over by Greek colonists to the Italian peninsula, where it gave rise to a variety of alphabets used to write the Italic languages.

Elder Futhark gave rise to a variety of alphabets known collectively as the Runic alphabets.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

In the Middle East, Aramaic gave rise to the Hebrew and Nabataean abjads, which retained many of the Aramaic letter forms.

This brevity gave rise to an informal abbreviation scheme sometimes called Textese, with which 10 % or more of the words in a typical SMS message are abbreviated.

The foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite ( for which reason she is called " foam-arisen "), while the Erinyes ( furies ) emerged from the drops of blood.

Germanicus ’ death in the year 19 caused much public grief in Rome, and gave rise to rumors that he had been murdered by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and Munatia Plancina on the orders of Tiberius, as his widow Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with his ashes.

With increasing cold, the former gave rise to water, earth and stones.

Algoritmi, the translator's rendition of the author's name, gave rise to the word algorithm ( Latin algorithmus, " calculation method ").

This poem gave rise to the common phrase monarch of all I survey via the verse:

In Scandinavia the amber road probably gave rise to the thriving Nordic Bronze Age culture, bringing influences from the Mediterranean Sea to the northernmost countries of Europe.

The great extent of country which this race occupied, and the desire of each part of it to trace its origin to some descendant of Aeolus, probably gave rise to the varying accounts about the number of his children.

These developments gave rise to the Islamist and Islamic movement opposed to the increasing communist and Soviet influence over Afghanistan.

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

This gave rise to the expression " Athanasius contra mundum " or " Athanasius against the world ".

Elite boards also spawned their own subculture and gave rise to the slang known today as leetspeak.

The legend of Archimedes gave rise to a considerable amount of research on burning glasses and lenses until the late 17th century.

Besides many pseudoscientific comparisons, the appearance of long-range linguistics gave rise to several attempts to connect Basque with geographically very distant language families.

The " angel " reading found an echo among the ancient Fathers of the Church and ecclesiastical writers, and even gave rise to the " strangest fancies ", especially among the disciples of Origen of Alexandria.

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

This gave R. D. Low, the head of children's publications at D. C. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of ' funnies ' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories.

They founded a semi-secret society — Narodna Odbrana ( National Defense ) which gave the Greater Serbia idea a focus and an organization.

Although he wanted the opportunity to put his principles in practice, Confucius gave up on this idea in the end.

Kings strengthened this idea and gave it the force of law.

He saved a man and his son and they gave him the idea of living as a normal person.

However, the machine also extended the idea of multiple " General Purpose Registers " ( GPRs ), which gave the programmer flexibility to use these high-speed memory caches as they needed, potentially addressing the performance issues.

Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.

These investigations and results of Whipple's gave Minot and Murphy the idea that an experiment could be made to see whether favorable results might also be obtained in the case of pernicious anemia ... by making use of the foods of the kind that Whipple had found to yield favorable results in his experiments regarding anemia from loss of blood.

It was initially assumed the Mendelian inheritance only accounted for large ( qualitative ) differences, such as those seen by Mendel in his pea plants — and the idea of additive effect of ( quantitative ) genes was not realised until R. A. Fisher's ( 1918 ) paper, " The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance " Mendel's overall contribution gave scientists a useful overview that traits were inheritable.

The British Parliament, disturbed by the idea that a great business concern, interested primarily in profit, was controlling the destinies of millions of people, passed acts in 1773 and 1784 that gave itself the power to control company policies and to appoint the highest company official in India, the Governor-General.

At the time, the union between Sweden and Norway under one monarch, together with the fact that King Frederick VII of Denmark had no male heir, gave rise to the idea of reuniting the countries of the Kalmar Union, except for Finland.

The Berber dynasties ( Almoravids, Almohads, Marinids and Wattasids ) gave the Berber people some measure of collective identity and political unity under a native regime for the first time in their history, and they created the idea of an " imperial Maghrib " under Berber aegis that survived in some form from dynasty to dynasty.

In 1981, Hall moved to a product planning position with Mazda USA and again met Yamamoto, now chairman of Mazda Motors, who remembered their conversation about a roadster and in 1982 gave Hall the go-ahead to research the idea further.

These slowly gave way to the idea of selling lifestyles.

Thus, in 1329 after this Battle of Pelekanon the Byzantines gave up the idea of getting the Kocaeli lands back and never tried conducting a field battle against the Ottoman forces.

William James learned pragmatism, this way of understanding an idea by its practical effects, from his friend Peirce, but he gave it new significance.

Cicero gave rise to the idea that the " ideal orator " be well-versed in all branches of learning: an idea that was rendered as " liberal humanism ," and that lives on today in liberal arts or general education requirements in colleges and universities around the world.

Although skeptical, Ken Williams gave the idea a shot.

" The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt records Susan telling the First Doctor that she gave him the idea when he was, implicitly, the " Other ".

The naturalism of traditional Roman art in such scenes gave way in these reliefs to conceptual art: the idea of order, decorum and respective ranking, expressed in serried ranks of faces.

Whatever gave me the idea he could act?

In an early attempt to incorporate this concept into the character's name, she was called " Samantha Peel ", shortened to the awkward " Mantha Peel ," Eventually the writers began referring to the idea by the verbal shorthand, " M. Appeal ", which gave rise to the character's ultimate name.

These new surroundings, which appealed to him more, hastened the development of the idea he had already in his mind and the tools of his new craft gave him the opportunity to put into tangible form the first conception of the adding machine.