Sentence examples for corporate feud from inspiring English sources

The resignations of Mr. Gold and Mr. Disney are a replay of sorts of the corporate feud of 1984.

This corporate feud, called the War of the Electric Currents, was so vicious that Edison pushed for an electric chair operated with Westinghouse alternating current generators, a lethal demise his delighted executives dubbed "being Westinghoused".

Their companies and their descendants carried on the corporate feud, reaching out into sports other than athletics and soccer in search of high-profile endorsement deals; Adidas famously signing boxing great Muhammad Ali, while Puma scored notable success with tennis stars Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova.

Inflated egos encourage corporate feuds.

Corporate feuds, matrimonial trouble and media feuds had to be taken into account.

His experience and personality are the antithesis of what NBC represents: he is not a programmer, has no experience in news and avoids playing corporate feuds in the press.

Mr. Collins was ousted from that post in what some cable executives saw as a corporate political feud with Mr. Pittman.

You wrote in your book that corporate "family feuds" almost always augur a takeover.

But since the arrival of the top Examiner editor Phil Bronstein, internal feuding and corporate reversals have delayed the debut of the "world-class newspaper" that Hearst executives had promised.

We have been warned that in the worst sense possible, water will be the issue of the coming century: as aquifers collapse and cities drain the rivers dry, competition for water will lead to corporate grabs, and blood feuds, and border wars.

He has led one of the bitterest corporate battles in memory, a feud with the Bridgestone/Firestone Company over the part Firestone tires played in rollovers of Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles.