The Atlanta Falcons Football Team is owned by business man Arthur Blank, and eight limited partners.

Arthur Blank who purchased the team on February 2002 owns 90 % of the franchise and the eight limited partners own the remaining 10 % of the franchise.

The current limited partners are Ronald E. Canakaris ; Warrick Dunn ; Douglas J. Hertz ; John P. Imlay, Jr .; Ed Mendel ; Derek V. Smith ; John A. Williams ; and Brian J. Barker.

The general partner of the limited partnership is typically the investment manager ( though is sometimes an offshore corporation ) and the investors are the limited partners.

However, it also has some features of covalent bonding: it is directional, stronger than a van der Waals interaction, produces interatomic distances shorter than sum of van der Waals radii, and usually involves a limited number of interaction partners, which can be interpreted as a kind of valence.

An unusual feature is that the partners are allowed to make certain limited signals to each other during play.

The fact that the first colonial governor, Charles Baley ( various spellings exist, including, but not limited to " Bailey "), was a Quaker might have been an important factor in the style of relations established between the company and its " trading partners ", Canada's First Nations.

Torrey orchestrated a sale to one of the team's limited partners, John Pickett, who made Torrey team president.

One of the team's limited partners was New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who lived in Tampa during the year.

The management structure of Lagardère reflects its status as a Société en commandite par actions ( partnership limited by shares ): the firm is led by general and managing partner Arnaud Lagardère who heads an executive committee comprising four co-managing partners ( Philippe Camus, Pierre Leroy, Dominique D ' Hinnin and Thierry Funck-Brentano ) and spokesperson and chief of external relations Ramzi Khiroun.

Stephan Ross, the majority owner of the Dolphins, said " We are thrilled to have Venus and Serena join the Dolphins as limited partners.

Therefore, an LBO transaction's financial structure is particularly attractive to a fund's limited partners, allowing them the benefits of leverage but greatly limiting the degree of recourse of that leverage.

To this it adds $ 2bn of equity – money from its own partners and from limited partners ( pension funds, rich individuals, etc .).

Until recently ( 2001 ) Canada's immigration policy designated mail-order brides under the " family class " to refer to spouses and dependents and " fiancé ( e )" class for those intending to marry, with only limited recognition of externally-married opposite-sex " common law " relationships ; same-sex partners were processed as independent immigrants or under a discretionary provision for " humane and compassionate " considerations.

Passing does not have to be limited to this one case ; players may agree that a certain number of cards may, or must, be passed either between partners or to the opponent on each players ' left or right, before or after making a bid.

In the OHG, all partners are fully liable for the partnership's debts, whereas in the KG there are general partners with unlimited liability and limited partners whose liability is restricted to their fixed contributions to the partnership.

A limited partnership enterprise includes general partners and limited partners where the limited partners are liable only to the extent of their capital contributions.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

I will assume that we are all aware of the continuing struggle, with its limited and precarious success, toward conservatism.

We are already committed to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth, not merely in the limited social-political-economical context we are fond of today.

Since we can neither undo nor redo the past, we are limited to the events of today and tomorrow.

Control would be limited to those rodents for which economical means of control are known.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

Because they are `` minority '' exercises and have but a limited appeal they soon find themselves in the limbo of the forgotten.

Measurements of polarization are presently limited by apparatus sensitivity and will remain difficult because of the low intensity of the planetary radiation at the earth.

Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.

The general Protestant conviction is that motives, rather than methods, form the primary moral issue, provided the methods are limited to the prevention of conception ''.

Defining sobriety in the limited sense of being free from the clinical symptoms of the effects of alcohol ingested and not yet eliminated from the system, you are sober.

They `` operate on a volume basis '', it was contended, `` and are not essential to provide the more limited but vital shopping needs of the community ''.

Sprinkel strongly refuted the current neo-stagnationist thesis that we are facing a future of limited and slow growth, declaring that this pessimism `` is based on very limited and questionable evidence ''.

The " great vows " ( mahavrata ) are prescribed for monks and " limited vows " ( anuvrata ) are prescribed for householders.

Their metabolic rate is low and as a result, their food and energy requirements are limited.

It has rudimentary eyes covered in skin which are probably limited to discerning differences in light intensity.

The calls made by caecilians and salamanders are limited to occasional soft squeaks, grunts or hisses and have not been much studied.

; Fixed effect: An effect associated with an input variable that has a limited number of levels or in which only a limited number of levels are of interest to the experimenter.

... review, on the other hand, provide an independent and civil inquiry into the validity of a conviction and sentence, and as such are generally limited to challenges to constitutional, jurisdictional, or other fundamental violations that occurred at trial.

Korzybski's work maintained that human beings are limited in what they know by ( 1 ) the structure of their nervous systems, and ( 2 ) the structure of their languages.

Many western human rights groups state that civil rights and free expression are severely limited in Belarus, though there are some individuals and groups that refuse to be controlled and some journalists have disappeared.

In some countries, including the United Kingdom, bankruptcy is limited to individuals, and other forms of insolvency proceedings, for example, liquidation and administration are applied to companies.

Despite the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.

While use of the term consumer is widespread among governmental, business and media organisations, many individuals and groups find the label objectionable because it assigns a limited and passive role to their activities.

Additionally, this hypothesis fails to explain the find of multiple examples of individuals with these same characteristics, indicating they were common to a large population, and not limited to one individual.

At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment, to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be perceived as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary.

“ Rational behavior, in economics, means that individuals maximize thier utility function under the constraints they face ( e. g., their budget constraint, limited choices, ...) in pursuit of their self-interest.

Because there are no sporting rules, individuals trained in Krav Maga are not limited to techniques that avoid severely injuring their opponents, but training and sparring drills provide maximum safety to the students by the use of protective equipment and the use of reasonable force.

The Dutch, realizing the limited number of individuals in the wild, outlawed sport hunting and heavily limited the number of individuals taken for scientific study.

Thus, only a limited number of individuals were hired as scribes to be trained in its use.

The first reason is that such groups may extend group identity and cooperation beyond the limited of family and kinship out of reciprocal altruism, in the belief that helping other individuals will produce an advantageous situation for both the sender and receiver of that help, this tendency has been noted in studies by Robert Axelrod that are summarized in his book The Evolution of Cooperation ( 1984 ).

Licences were only granted, transferred or renewed at special Licensing Sessions courts, and were limited to respectable individuals.

However, studies by the Drug Abuse Warning Network in the 1970s show that media reports of PCP-induced violence are greatly exaggerated and that incidents of violence were unusual and often ( but not always ) limited to individuals with reputations for aggression regardless of drug use.

The Court has not indicated, however, whether this holding extends to the public school context, and it may well be limited to the context of individuals training to enter the ministry.

It is intended only for individuals whose limited mobility is dependent on a POV / scooter or automobile consistently throughout the week.

Historians have noted that naturalists had long been aware that the individuals of a species differed from one another, but had generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species, that archetype being a fixed ideal in the mind of God.

The Court further held in the Civil Rights Cases ( 1883 ) that the amendment was limited to " state action " and, therefore, did not authorize the Congress to outlaw racial discrimination on the part of private individuals or organizations.

Although not necessarily " voyeurism " in its original definition, as individuals in these given situations are aware of their audience, the concept behind " reality TV " is to allow unscripted social interaction with limited outside interference or influence.

C. porosus is estimated to live around 70 years on average, with limited evidence of some individuals exceeding 100 years.

The term bi-curious implies that the individual has either no or limited homosexual experience in the case of " heterosexual " individuals or no or limited heterosexual experience in the case of " homosexuals ", but may continue to self-identify as bi-curious if they do not feel they have adequately explored these feelings, or if they do not wish to identify as bisexual.