Sentence examples for failed hostile from inspiring English sources

An unsuccessful partnership between the company and Foote, Cone & Belding, a leading American ad agency, quickly led to disagreements over strategy and a failed hostile takeover.

Mr. Roberts, who had the failed hostile takeover bid for Disney behind him, had one requirement: he said he would not participate in an auction.

The relationship between Lionsgate and Mr. Perry is deepening as the independent studio shows signs of emerging from an arduous period that has included box-office failures and a failed hostile takeover attempt by Carl C. Icahn.

“It’s a fluid situation.” After Alcoa’s failed hostile takeover bid for Alcan, speculation had been spreading across Australia, Britain and America that Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton would make a move for Alcoa.

Pfizer, another pharmaceutical giant, tried to invert this spring by buying AstraZeneca in a failed hostile takeover.

But it has stumbled on occasion, notably with a failed hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange.

Some unpleasant ones: "abusing," "failed" and "hostile".

The announcement also comes after the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche on Wednesday walked away from its failed $6.2 billion hostile takeover of Illumina, the provider of genetic analysis services.

All the while, he was eager to beef up the company's content arsenal, something Comcast attempted to do with its failed $54 billion hostile bid for Burke's former employer in 2004.

In February, Corvex Management, a hedge fund headed by a former employee of Carl C. Icahn, and the Related Companies announced the acquisition of 9.8 percent of CommonWealth and an offer for the REIT at $25 per share, threatening to go hostile if CommonWealth failed to enter into negotiations to sell to the two new shareholders.

He has been chief executive since 1999, and has faced criticism after Alcoa failed in a hostile bid to buy Alcan for $28.6 billion.