Sentence examples for mounting hostile from inspiring English sources

But private equity firms tend to shy away from mounting hostile bids, and it's unclear whether Yahoo would be a case in which they'd break this unspoken rule.

He said his company wanted to avoid the impression that it was mounting a hostile bid.

More casual observers might have been surprised to see Comcast mounting a hostile bid for mighty AT&T's cable properties.

Cheryl Dier, a slim, dark-haired woman, stepped forward to accuse her brother, who was not present, of mounting a "hostile takeover".

But Mr Read deployed such a baffling array of business jargon that Michael Deacon, parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph, said he "appeared to be mounting a hostile takeover of the English language".

The situation deteriorated when defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld mounted a "hostile takeover" of the Pentagon under Colin Powell.

That attitude may explain why the Germans have not tried to challenge Vodafone's right to mount a hostile bid.

The underlying contempt for the Rotterdam- and London-based mountedGroup, which mounted a hostile takeover attempt for Arcelor in January, is transparent.

The situation deteriorated when defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld mounted a "hostile takeover" of the Pentagon under Colin Powell, Dannatt said.

In May Honda filed a suit in Los Angeles accusing Republic of trying, in effect, to mount a hostile takeover of Honda's American dealership network.

BASF, which has also mounted a hostile $4.9 billion bid for the American catalytic converters maker Engelhard Corp., beat out other bidders for the unit of Dusseldorf, Germany-based Degussa.