Sentence examples for acquisition vulnerable from inspiring English sources

IS GERMANY'S Deutsche Bank AG, the world's largest bank by assets ( $755 billion, after the Bankers Trust acquisition), vulnerable to a hostile takeover?

When Dr. Rolf Breuer, chairman of the board of managing directors of Germany's Deutsche Bank AG, visited with FORBES GLOBAL editors last month, we put this question to him: Is Deutsche Bank, the world's largest bank by assets ( $755 billion, after the Bankers Trust acquisition), vulnerable to a hostile takeover?

Its debt burden makes the broadcaster vulnerable to a potential acquisition.

But the appetite for acquisition is pushing vulnerable communities off their land, with authorities often taking the side of investors over local people.

It also means that smaller players that are growing fast but still small are more vulnerable acquisition targets.

Since the late 1980s, regulatory changes and increased competition, coupled with narrower profit margins, have left many community banks vulnerable to acquisition.

In a report released earlier this month, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank, argued that Schering's underperforming research pipeline and poor cost-cutting record, made the company vulnerable to acquisition by a private-equity firm eyeing its rich cash flow.

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are vulnerable to attacks that are directed not only at data communication infrastructures but also to those directed at control centers and even remote terminal units (RTUs).

For example, Unilever appeared vulnerable to acquisition by Heinz, when in fact, their brand assets were significantly more valuable than the investment bankers were able to ascertain from the financial statements.

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems are particularly vulnerable to deliberate cyber-attacks.

We also aimed to describe the epidemiology of pneumococcal acquisition in a highly vulnerable population.