Sentence examples for acrimonious proxy from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hewlett, who led a costly and acrimonious proxy fight against the Compaq merger, is challenging the shareholder vote, which Hewlett-Packard apparently won by a slender margin.

But the conclusion of the acrimonious proxy battle should give fresh momentum to an auction that has drawn initial interest from some 20 parties wanting at least to leaf through the book.

The retiring academic, whose father was one of Silicon Valley's pioneers, lost his last-ditch attempt to scupper the deal on April 30th when a court in Delaware threw out his lawsuit, which alleged that HP misled shareholders and coerced one big investor into voting for the merger during an acrimonious proxy fight.

The acrimonious, costly and very public proxy fight that followed -- after the Hewlett and Packard families opposed the deal -- significantly raised the personal profiles of both Ms. Fiorina and Mr. Capellas, who conducted a political-style campaign to sell the deal.

After a proxy contest that was costly, acrimonious and personal -- often resembling a presidential campaign in tone and tactics -- the court challenge in Delaware was the business equivalent of the Bush-Gore fight in Florida after the 2000 election.

Their parting was acrimonious.

The relationship turned acrimonious.

Expect another acrimonious battle there.

Did it become acrimonious?

Instead, the debate grew more acrimonious.

"He got quite acrimonious," Denton said.