Corporation

Examples

• A powerful business corporation still preserves its industrial tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the other hand the Corporation of New York commissioned him to paint the portrait of Lafayette, who was then visiting America. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• An exclusive corporation necessarily weakens the force of this discipline. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1636 the pinmakers of London formed a corporation and established the industry of Bristol and Birmingham. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They would probably be so everywhere, if corporation laws and the corporation spirit did not prevent it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is the labour of artificers and manufacturers only of which the free circulation is obstructed by corporation laws. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Corporation laws, however, give less obstruction to the free circulation of stock from one place to another, than to that of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is a closed corporation, and you create arbitrary objections in order to keep people out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In most towns, too, a very small fine is sufficient to purchase the freedom of any corporation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The obstruction which corporation laws give to the free circulation of labour is common, I believe, to every part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the American stock exchanges one broker may specialize in the shares of the Union Pacific Railroad, for instance, another in those of the United States Steel Corporation, and so on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You will find him at 126b Corporation Street, where the temporary offices of the company are situated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The republican character of the private corporations called the schools or academies at Athens was far more stable and independent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Corporations have been known to do just that to their reports. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The exclusive privileges of corporations obstruct it from one place to another, even in the same employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And if corporations have been slow to adopt such merciful devices, legislatures have stepped in to help the matter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus the demand for the new machines and wax records grew apace as the corporations organized to handle the business extended their lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The pretence that corporations are necessary for the better government of the trade, is without any foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The exclusive privileges of corporations are the principal means it makes use of for this purpose. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1910 the American Banker estimated that there were 1,198 corporations with 8,110 subsidiaries liable to all the penalties of the Sherman Act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So great became the demand for this binders' twine that great corporations engaged in its manufacture, and they in turn formed a great trust to control the world's supply. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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