Sentence examples for made hostile from inspiring English sources

While companies made hostile takeover more difficult, hostile takeovers did not go away.

What can't be emptied — ornamental ponds, for example — can be made hostile to mosquitoes.

Since the 1980s new laws have made hostile takeovers difficult unless the managers of the target firm put themselves in play by starting merger talks with another firm.

Jitters in EuropeItaly's foreign minister, Renato Ruggiero, resigned after several other senior ministers had made hostile remarks about the EU and the euro, and Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, failed to slap them down.

By the late 1980s private equity had grown big enough to be noticed by the general public, but it made hostile headlines with a wave of debt-financed "leveraged buy-outs" (LBOs) of big, well-known firms.

In a meeting in Pyongyang, Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun told the scholar that the United States had made hostile and offensive statements about North Korea, the American said as he returned from a visit there.

Banks are hesitant about making hostile bids for each other.

Such defenses are meant to make hostile takeovers prohibitively expensive for unwanted suitors.

Companies also heavily lobbied states to adopt laws making hostile takeovers much harder.

A law governing takeovers may permit "poison-pill" defences, making hostile takeovers easier to stave off.

Buyers have so far proved unwilling to make hostile offers, especially when crossing borders.