In small private companies, the directors and the shareholders are normally the same people, and thus there is no real division of power.

Another feature of boards of directors in large public companies is that the board tends to have more de facto power.

Many shareholders grant proxies to the directors to vote their shares at general meetings and accept all recommendations of the board rather than try to get involved in management, since each shareholder's power, as well as interest and information is so small.

In some legal systems, directors may also be removed by a resolution of the remaining directors ( in some countries they may only do so " with cause "; in others the power is unrestricted ).

The case concerned the power of the directors to issue new shares.

Though directors wield a great deal of power, they are ultimately subordinate to the film's Producer or Producers.

Executive power went to five " directors ," named annually by the Conseil des Anciens from a list submitted by the Conseil des Cinq-Cents.

Moreover, to prolong their power the directors were driven to rely on the military, which desired war and grew less and less civic-minded.

Executive power went to five " directors ", named annually by the Conseil des Anciens from a list submitted by le Conseil des Cinq-Cents.

In most modern large companies, there is now no longer a single dominant shareholder, and the collective power of the business owners is for most purposes delegated to a board of directors, which in turn delegates the day-to-day running of the company to a managing director or CEO.

Because Hoover's actions came to be seen as an abuse of power, FBI directors are now limited to one 10-year term, subject to extension by the United States Senate.

Further, giving directors the power to deter takeovers puts directors in a position to enrich themselves, as they may effectively ask to be compensated for the price of consenting to a takeover.

Anyone involved in the film industry — from directors to the lowliest assistant — had to sign an oath of loyalty to the Nazi Party, due to opinion-changing power Goebbels perceived movies to have.

The Bancrofts gave Robertson an unprecedented amount of directorial control over the plays, which was a key step to institutionalizing the power that directors wield in the theatre today.

In a corporation, the board of directors appoints a CEO, makes major decisions and wields representative power on behalf of shareholders.

) Breen's power to change scripts and scenes angered many writers, directors, and Hollywood moguls.

In exchange for moving the new proposed site from the environmentally sensitive Nipomo Dunes to Diablo Canyon, the board of directors voted to support PG & E's plan for the power plant.

The Club's board of directors had voted to support the Diablo Canyon site for the power plant in exchange for PG & E's moving its initial site from the environmentally sensitive Nipomo Dunes.

The Directory was composed of five directors and represented the executive power: leaders were local politicians like Gian Galeazzo Serbelloni, the first president.

Laymen who were constituted directors for life before 1 June 1877, and ministers who are life members are authorized to attend the meetings of the board, with power to speak and vote.

Some actors may have a perceived over-the-top style or presence that overwhelms or threatens to upstage other actors, which means that directors often choose to limit their screentime, in effect giving more power and value to their performance.

Such authoritarian rule, once expected and even thought necessary for a symphonic ensemble to function properly, has loosened somewhat in the closing decades of the 20th century with the advent and encouragement of more power sharing and cooperative management styles ( with the orchestra musicians themselves, the administrative staff, and volunteer board of directors ).

Murray said that as he and the directors continued to " quickdraw " the character changes to the design " naturally " lessened the " victim, paranoid " aspect and gave the character a " happy personality.

Previously in the United Kingdom, under the Companies Act 1985, protections for non-member stakeholders were considerably more limited ( see for example, s. 309 which permitted directors to take into account the interests of employees but which could only be enforced by the shareholders and not by the employees themselves ).

The job is eased considerably by the fact that Piers, a member of the board of directors of an Anglo-Russian charity, is also in Moscow and scheduled to meet with Gorbachev.

Unlike its Western counterpart, this industry has a considerably better reputation, with directors sometimes making V-Cinema movies by choice, due to the creative freedom afforded by the less stringent censorship of the format, and the riskier content the producers will allow.

The law takes the view that good faith must not only be done, but must be manifestly seen to be done, and zealously patrols the conduct of directors in this regard ; and will not allow directors to escape liability by asserting that his decision was in fact well founded.

DVD Times said that the animation " gives the storyteller complete control over what you see and ultimately how the viewer interprets the directors dream ... the astounding animation, the attention to detail seen in every frame is quite daunting, but allows the viewer to discover new subtleties on repeated viewing.

Since the first restoration, it has come to be seen by many film critics and directors as one of the greatest films of all time.

This reel was seen by numerous directors, including Stanley Kubrick and John G. Avildsen.

The three new directors were generally seen as non-entities.

The California Public Employees ' Retirement System ( CalPERS ) led a wave of institutional shareholder activism ( something only very rarely seen before ), as a way of ensuring that corporate value would not be destroyed by the now traditionally cozy relationships between the CEO and the board of directors ( e. g., by the unrestrained issuance of stock options, not infrequently back dated ).

Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit.

Hols is often seen as the first major break from the normal anime style and the beginning of a later movement of " auteuristic " or " progressive anime " which would eventually involve directors such as Hayao Miyazaki ( creator of Spirited Away ) and Mamoru Oshii.

Bindon pleaded self-defence and was acquitted, but the case damaged his reputation, and this coupled with being seen as difficult to work with by directors meant his acting career declined.

Adams was an avid reader of fan magazines and came to believe he could meet agents and directors by being seen at the Warners Theater in Beverly Hills.

In December 1993, Ferguson agreed a deal with Everton manager Howard Kendall, that would have seen Dublin moving to Goodison Park, but a member of Everton's board of directors, apparently feeling that Dublin was not worth the money Kendall had offered United, intervened to prevent the transfer going through – this incident led directly to Kendall's resignation as Everton manager and Dublin ended up staying at Old Trafford until the end of the season.

Commercial directors such as Denis Héroux became known for his films Valérie and Deux femmes en or, two comedies with erotic overtones showing popular success not seen in Quebec since Jean-Yves Bigras ' La Petite Aurore l ' enfant martyre ( 1952 ).

Clair's reputation as a film-maker underwent a considerable reevaluation during the course of his own lifetime: in the 1930s he was widely seen as one of France's greatest directors, alongside Renoir and Carné, but thereafter his work's artifice and detachment from the realities of life fell increasingly from favour.

The safari shirt is confused herein with a safari jacket / bush jacket which is a single layer, long sleeved and long square tailed affair often made iconic by film directors and seen in photos of Ernest Hemmingway.

The ongoing turmoil has seen 3 directors resign from the board in the last month, the latest being Johan Fredrik Odfjell who is quoted in the company's release as saying " FAST faces many challenges and opportunities going forward ".

Spanish cinema has also seen international success over the years with films by directors like Segundo de Chomón, Florián Rey, Luis García Berlanga, Carlos Saura, Julio Medem and Alejandro Amenábar.

The directors carried out their own inspection of the line on 6 April and felt sufficiently confident about what they had seen to ask Captain Laffan to make a second inspection.

Trumbull was seen as one of Hollywood's up and coming young directors.

Although the sackings were widely seen as a purge of ethnic Albanians, the government maintained that it was simply getting rid of old communist directors.

Chang was a pioneer of what is known by some as " heroic bloodshed "; films that emphasize brotherhood, loyalty and honor, and several of his films, including Vengeance, Boxer From Shantung and Chinatown Kid, can be seen as clear influences on the later work of directors such as John Woo and Ringo Lam.

The French as seen by ... ( Les Français vus par ... in French ) was the title and subject of a series of five short films by notable directors.

When a company is seen as the offender under this Act, everyone involved with the management of the company including the board of directors can be liable for punishment.