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dissolution

to a shareholder petition based on statutorily prescribed grounds voluntary dissolution : dissolution of a corporation upon the initiative of the directors and with approval of a certain percentage of the shareholders d : the termination of

University

provided for by the creation of a council or senate, which acts as the executive, and has an initiative in such legislation as the University is empowered to carry out, sometimes subject to the king in council,

Weights and measures

1904, substitutes for the power of the Board of Trade to disapprove of regulations of local authorities an initiative power to that Board to make regulations as to verification and stamping of weights and measures, obliteration of

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Job-targeting program

Job-targeting program, means an initiative by a labour union to maintain or improve its share of the labour in a particular market by

Social democracy

equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative. Without fraternity, liberty and equality could not become a natural course of things, Valsama Paul v. Cochin University,

presentment

be dealt with ;specif : the notice or accusation of an offense by a grand jury on the initiative of the jury members or on the basis of their own knowledge without a bill of indictment laid

pretrial conference

to an action and a judge or magistrate and held at a party's request or on the judge's initiative for the purpose of focusing the issues, making discovery, entering into stipulations, obtaining rulings, and dealing with any

referendum

submission to popular vote of a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative ;also : the popular vote on a measure so submitted

sua sponte

sua sponte [Latin, of its own accord] : on the court's own motion or initiative [authorize the court to order a new trial sua sponte "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the court's sua

Entrepreneur

One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit generally whoever undertakes on his own account an

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