Private companies can positively opt to do so if they wish.

Instead, the company opted on Friday to go to its existing shareholders with a placing and rights issue to raise £1bn.

The company opted for the Design-build approach very early in its history.

The company has apparently opted not to bother in this case.

About two-thirds of the companies opt to purchase their space.

The company and the agency opted to fight both problems with humor.

In many cases, companies opt to give workers early retirement rather than seek to lay them off.

So far, only a few companies have opted to do this.

But he gave two reasons why the company opted not to go down that road.

There are plenty of reasons that companies opt for rapid change when confronted with scandal.