rights issue
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In one sense, she’s dealing with a rights issue too painful to be aggressively aestheticized, but she’s also exploring a blood-soaked injustice that can’t be treated conventionally.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
The price is within the range Citi had expected that still enables EPS accretion, while no rights issue removes some risk for public investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
May said modern slavery was "the greatest human rights issue of our time" but also "destabilises economies".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
It is a "problem that will continue to increase," he said, adding that the mounting effects of warming on global food systems create a human rights issue.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024
The reconstructionists were not able in 1867-68 to carry through Congress any provision for the social equality of the races, but in the reconstructed states, the equal rights issue was alive throughout the period.
From The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states by Fleming, Walter Lynwood
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