Noun
an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later
Source: WordNetExperiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death-with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights-will become the biggest civil rights issue of all. Charles Stross
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage. Martin Luther King Jr.
We don't need ‘masters' that dictate to other countries, let alone politicizing and turning the human rights issue into a tool, practicing double standards and interference in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of human rights. Xi Jinping
We made fracking a civil rights issue. Because that is what it is. We all have a right to a healthy environment and to clean water. And so do our children. Lewis Pugh
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property. Malcolm Wallop
Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. Ryan Coogler