Sentence examples for takeovers almost from inspiring English sources

Foreign takeovers almost always prompt exaggerated fears of corporate death.

Lord Leach has worked for Jardines as an adviser for 32 years, helping the family business to steer its way through the Hong Kong handover and to construct the complex cross-ownership share structure that makes a hostile takeover almost impossible.

Such a takeover almost tripled the probability of infants dying (β = 2.9).

Hostile takeovers are almost nonexistent, as is shareholder activism.

At eighty-three, he's been involved in takeovers for almost fifty years.

Dividend payments from Shell and others could be slashed if oil skids further and a major new round of takeovers would almost certainly begin.

After three years of working in the US, my experience is that there may be lots of small and middle-size foreign takeovers, but almost no household names of the type we have seen in abundance here.

Hostile takeovers are almost unheard of in the pharmaceutical business because much of the value of drug companies is tied up in things that are both unpredictable and opaque to outsiders the undisclosed results of clinical trials for new drugs, patents whose scientific and legal underpinnings are often closely guarded secrets and scientists who can leave.

Today the takeover is almost complete.

Every day, the financial crisis throws up a new obstacle, and that makes valuing a takeover target almost impossible".

Newly winnowed to its fast-growing pet food business, Ralston became a potential takeover target almost immediately.