Sentences with 'corporation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word corporation and other words derived from it.
• « In 1602, Dutch merchants with the support of the state created the world's first corporation: the Dutch East India Company (VOC in its Dutch acronym). »
• « The result was that the English East India Company, a private corporation backed by the British state, controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent by the mid-19th century. »
• « The Spanish crown, especially under a branch of the Bourbon royal family that became the royal dynasty of Spain in 1700, exercised direct control over colonial trade and taxation (rather than relying on a corporation as did the Dutch and English). »
• « In this novel business arrangement, which was in many ways the forerunner of the modern corporation, investors provided the capital and assumed the risk of an enterprise for significant profits. »