Sentence examples for preceding the takeover from inspiring English sources

And it all sounded so right". In the three months preceding the takeover of Compaq, Ms. Fiorina and Walter B. Hewlett, the son of Hewlitt-Packard's co-founder, Walter R. Hewlett, and an opponent of the merger, were embroiled in a battle for shareholders' votes.

Gibraltar Savings was believed to be losing hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits in the days preceding the takeover, though its total deposits still exceed $9 billion.

National revenue from CHF member contributions has increased over time, with a steeper increase since the NHIF took over CHF than in the year preceding the takeover.

"He does not intend to probe the decision-making process that preceded the takeover of the ship and the shortcomings that were uncovered".

"The danger is that Russia might believe that the large-scale conventional forces which she has shown she can generate at very short notice – as we saw in the snap exercise that preceded the takeover of Crimea – could in future be used not only for intimidation and coercion but potentially to seize Nato territory," he said.

CAIRO — A leaked video of senior Egyptian Army officers debating how to influence the news media during the months preceding the military takeover offers a rare glimpse of the anxiety within the institution at the prospect of civilian oversight.

But during the wave of anti-Brotherhood violence that preceded the military takeover, Mr. Ibrahim refused to protect the group or Mr. Morsi.

As the leading founder of the contra army and a colonel in the National Guard of former President Anastasio Somoza Debayle before that, Mr. Bermudez epitomized the old conservative political order that preceded the Sandinista takeover in 1979.

From the 15th century onward the population increased steadily, growth being interrupted by wars and natural disasters in the mid-17th century and slowed by the internal strife and foreign invasions in the century that preceded the communist takeover in 1949.

Afghan warlords had ravaged the country during the civil war of the early 1990s that preceded the Taliban takeover, committing mass atrocities best defined as crimes against humanity.

Lavrov did not make clear what Moscow would consider as an attack on its interests but similarly vague warnings preceded the Crimea takeover.