Sentence examples for bitter proxy from inspiring English sources
A bitter proxy fight ensued, including an apparent attempt to lock out representatives from a hastily scheduled midnight vote.
She had sold the deal brilliantly, amid a bitter proxy fight, but the execution was badly managed, and the value of the stock fell.
Among their biggest coups was in 2008, when the Children's Investment Fund prevailed in a bitter proxy battle with the railroad giant CSX Corporation.
Executives strove to put a bitter proxy battle behind them while emphasizing that the company would benefit directly from its increased size.
Both sides in the bitter proxy fight have pleaded their cases before Institutional Shareholders Services, whose recommendation for or against the deal could be crucial.
Cescendo was recently engaged in a bitter proxy battle with Charming Shoppes Inc., seeking three seats on the board of the plus-size women's clothing manufacturer.
The other principal risk is of the West getting sucked into the bitter ongoing proxy war between the Sunni and Shia strands of Islam.
The Sunni Gulf states have long been fighting proxy wars with their bitter Shia enemies, Iran, with the vicious conflict in Yemen the latest in the series.
The bitter enemies have been engaged in proxy sectarian wars in a number of places, most currently in Yemen; this time they will be in the same battle-space.
Saudi Arabia argues that the Houthis, a predominantly Shiite group that found broad support as an anti-corruption movement, are a proxy of Riyadh's bitter rival, Iran.
Was it bitter to wind up as Michael Bloomberg's proxy?
