Sentence examples for outright bid from inspiring English sources

If O'Brien were to increase his INM holding beyond 29.9% he would, under Irish stock exchange rules, have to make an outright bid for the company.

The deputy prime minister escaped the potential embarrassment of an outright bid to enshrine withdrawal of the bill in party policy after members rejected a rebel motion on Saturday.

The people familiar with Euronext cautioned that an outright bid for the London Stock Exchange was not imminent, as the company must first vote on its own merger on Sept. 22. "We have increased the number of banks we are talking to, to consider the present situation with the London Stock Exchange," said a person close to Euronext, who refused to be identified further.

If it does not make an outright bid, investment bankers note, Microsoft might want to supply Disney a pile of cash -- say, $10 billion -- that could be used to pass along a special cash dividend to mollify disgruntled Disney shareholders so that they will reject the Comcast bid.

Hershey produces Cadbury chocolates in the U.S. under license, but the Brits would be hard-pressed to finance an outright bid for the Pennsylvania chocolatiers.

It has the option to buy either an additional 18.0% for 55.00 euros ($77.80) a share in the next three years, or Deutsche Post's remaining 20.25% stake for 42.90 euros (60.68) a share between 21 and 36 months after the first stake, which effectively means that they're planning on making an outright bid within the next three years.

Hong Kong is abuzz with talk of chiu yan, or "superman" as the locals call Mr Li, launching an outright takeover bid for Jardines.

"Everybody wants to avoid an outright hostile bid," said Morton A. Pierce, who heads the mergers and acquisitions practice at Dewey & LeBoeuf, a law firm in New York.

Jeremy Hunt, Britain's secretary of state for culture, media and sport, is expected to announce soon whether he will approve the BSkyB bid outright or refer it to the country's competition commission.

TPL has also promised to raise more money for the good causes and to distribute the prize-money more evenly, creating more single millionaires rather than the fewer multi-millionaires of the Camelot regime.But can he really do it?In spite of this, the commission could still not pick Sir Richard's bid outright.

Some are outright jokes, or bids at attracting tourism, like the Czech Republic's highly monetized and publicized Kingdom of Wallachia.