Directors cannot compete directly with the company without a conflict of interest arising.

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

The Executive Directors as individuals cannot exercise any power nor commit or represent the Bank unless specifically authorized by the Boards to do so.

Bylaws generally cannot be amended by an organization's Board of Directors ; a super-majority vote of the membership, such as two-thirds present and voting or a majority of all the members, is usually required to amend bylaws.

It is best known as " the decried doctrine of the old Bank Directors of 1810: that so long as a bank issues its notes only in the discount of good bills, at not more than sixty days ’ date, it cannot go wrong in issuing as many as the public will receive from it.

If the Board of Directors of the co-operative cannot resolve the member issue, which is a cause for possible termination of occupancy rights, it can pass a motion to send the member a notice to appear requiring the member to attend at a Board meeting at which the termination ( eviction ) of that member's occupancy will be considered.

The governors cannot, without the Board of Directors ' permission, have any control over the direction of the FT.

Directors must not, without the informed consent of the company, use for their own profit the company's assets, opportunities, or information.

Singing without accompaniment is called a cappella singing ( although the American Choral Directors Association discourages this usage in favor of " unaccompanied ," since a cappella denotes singing " as in the chapel " and much unaccompanied music today is secular ).

The Board also co-opts a maximum of 6 experts ( 3 Directors and 3 Alternates ), who participate in the Board meetings in an advisory capacity, without voting rights.

* A June 27, 1950, movie of a " flying disk " over Louisville, Kentucky, taken by a Louisville Courier-Journal photographer, had the USAF Directors of counterintelligence ( AFOSI ) and intelligence discussing in memos how to best obtain the movie and interview the photographer without revealing Air Force interest.

Work on the book, The Finished Mystery, proceeded without the knowledge of the full Board of Directors and Editorial Committee and was released by Rutherford to headquarters staff on July 17, 1917, the day he announced the appointment of the four replacement directors.

At the July 2005 National Board of Directors meeting a resolution was passed: " The actions of the 1976 and 1998 National Conventions have attempted to clarify the Fraternity ’ s open membership policy … The National Board is charged with … enforcing the membership policies of the Fraternity as well as ensuring compliance with applicable laws … and upon advice of legal counsel, all chapters must practice open membership without regard of gender ".

The AMS was incorporated in 1969 as a non-profit organization without share capital and thus the Assembly representatives also serve as the voting members of the corporation and annually elect a Board of Directors that oversees the services and financial affairs of the Society.

The rationale for the rule is the recognition by courts that, in the inherently risky environment of business, Boards of Directors need to be free to take risks without a constant fear of lawsuits affecting their judgment.

The downturn was exacerbated by a scandal in which top executives were discovered to have been augmenting their personal revenues without informing the Board of Directors.

All acts in the domain of public administration made without the previous consent of the respective Directors General were declared legally void, while the director freed from responsibility for such acts.

The next Event, St Louis, was marked as a fully organized event without the interference of the Board of Directors of the company:

They are also a founding member of The Elite Ice Hockey League, although they have not yet entered a team in that league despite the fact that they ( along with the London Racers ) are able to enter the league at any time without having to apply due to their Chairman being on the Board of Directors for the Elite League.

A proposal to build a new arena at Cal Expo ( the State Fairgrounds ) which would include an upgrade to the fairgrounds as well as retail and housing developments was presented and accepted by the Cal Expo Board of Directors on February 27, 2009 but fell apart soon after, leaving Sacramento without a new arena.

Each usually has the right to nominate, without objection of the other, a certain number of Directors who become nominees for the election by the shareholder body at the AGM.

Directors and cinematographers often use deep space without using deep focus, being either an artistic choice or because they don't have resources to create a deep focus look, or both.

The Mayor appoints, with the advice and consent of the Township Council, the Business Administrator, the Township Attorney, and the Directors of the Departments of Public Safety, Engineering and Public Works.

In addition, the Executives appoint student representatives to various External Boards, including the Board of Directors, the Alumni Board of Governors and the Speech and Expression Committee, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Decision making is by consensus by the Board of Directors with the advise and consent of the members of the Standing Committees and the various Regional Representatives.

* Director or Member of the Board of Directors – high-level official with a fiduciary responsibility of overseeing the operation of a corporation and elects or removes officers of a corporation ; nominally, Directors, other than the Chairman are usually not considered to be employees of the company per se, although they may receive compensation, often including benefits ; in publicly held companies.

A Board of Directors is normally made up of members ( Directors ) who are a mixture of corporate officials who are also management employees of the company ( inside directors ) and persons who are not employed by the company in any capacity ( outside directors or non-executive directors ).

* Secretary or Company secretary – legally recognized " titled " corporate officer who reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for keeping the records of the Board and the company.

Directors of dramatic films who had worked Griffith also followed his style fairly closely, and it the standard for films made by his Fine Arts section of the Triangle company.

Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.

He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Heckmann Corporation, a water sector company, since the company's inception and serves as Chairman of the company's Compensation and Nominating & Governance Committees.

He also served on the Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors, and served on the board of Atlanta-based software maker EzGov Inc. Kemp also served on the Board of Directors of Election. com, which was the private company that ran the world's first election on the internet ( won by Al Gore ), the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary.

The signatories to the Memorandum of Association are deemed to be the first Directors of the company.

He also co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company.

* March 19 Enron Board of Directors approves to keep its three pipeline companies, Transwestern Pipeline Company, Citrus Corp., and Northern Plains Natural Gas Company, as subsidiaries of the new company temporarily called PipeCo.

* May 9 Enron Board of Directors approves retention of most overseas power plants, pipelines, and utility businesses as subsidiaries of a new company temporarily called InternationalCo ( also known as, Enron International ).

Their daughter, Kelsey Wirth, is the co-founder of the orthodontic production company Align Technology, makers of Invisalign and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Grist Magazine, The Environmental Working Group and the Winslow Foundation.

Kapor was the original Chair and is currently on the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, a San Francisco-based company which created the popular virtual world Second Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation.

Since being recalled, Davis has worked as a guest lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and as an attorney at Loeb & Loeb and sat on the Board of Directors of the animation company DiC Entertainment.

On April 23, 2007, Davis was appointed to the Board of Directors of animation company DiC Entertainment, as a non-executive.

Secor was a member of the Board of Directors of the company that was building the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad.

On July 29, 2010, EGHC, parent company of Essence Healthcare and other subsidiaries, announced that Dr. Cortese would join its Board of Directors.