Sentence examples for common takeover from inspiring English sources
Frits Bolkestein, the European Commissioner responsible for internal markets who had led efforts to adopt a common takeover law, said the agreement would make Europe's economy more attractive to investors.
This is a fairly common defense for takeover targets that are in the process of restating their earnings, though not necessarily a particularly successful one.
This explains the pattern of FDI, with big takeovers common.
Shareholder, or proxy, fights, while common in hostile takeovers, are unusual in friendly mergers like this one, said Charles M. Elson, the Edgar Woolard professor of corporate governance at the University of Delaware, and director of the university's Center for Corporate Governance.
Extreme exit packages for chief executives became more common during the hostile-takeover era of the 1980s, when the so-called golden parachute proliferated.
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, announced his intention to force a Commons vote on the takeover on a BBC Sunday morning talk show, saying that he regretted having to take the step but believed that Prime Minister David Cameron had left no other option to bid opponents with his refusal to take steps to halt the takeover.
Miliband added that a clear vote would be seen as a way of telling Hunt that the Commons regards a Murdoch takeover of BSkyB as not in the public interest, at the least until the extent of the criminality has been discovered.
Cross-border takeovers are common now (witness Mittal's purchase of Arcelor).
But from 1989 to 1991, as leveraged takeovers became common, the high levels of debt made it harder for investors to value companies using the old methods.
In addition to sneaking, multiple paternity within two-spotted goby nests may also be caused by nest takeovers, a common phenomenon in closely related gobies such as sand gobies [ 28].
