Sentence examples for takeovers less from inspiring English sources

The commission pinned the crash on causes like the high merchandise trade deficit of that era, and on a tax proposal that might have made some corporate takeovers less likely.

My firm's count of last year's buybacks and takeovers, less new stock issuance, was $585 billion, or 4.5% of gross domestic product.

David Hilal, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company, said the results made an Oracle takeover less likely.

Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, said the prospect of such a deal that could deprive Microsoft of being able to sell all Yahoo's search ads made proceeding with a hostile takeover less attractive.

But though Wesley's multisensory takeover and celebration of a defunct restaurant is an homage to experimentation with found elements, it's also representative of Wesley's total body of work, making his yearlong takeover less about an oasis of high art in an unlikely American locale and more about the artist himself.

Finally, friendly takeovers are less likely to experience disrupted operations after the takeover that may destroy the target firm's intangible assets.

Now, a number of recent deals for companies that have gone public in recent years offer a variation on the theme: takeovers for less than the initial offering price.

City's takeover was less high politics, at first.

The takeover comes less than a month after Invensys, one of the last survivors from the era of British industrial conglomerates, agreed to a £3.4bn takeover by France's Schneider Electric.

The Spanish bank's takeover comes less than a week after the European Commission gave preliminary approval to plans for a government rescue of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, a troubled Italian bank.

Studying such companies, he found that their managers, freed from the fear of takeover, were less concerned about cost-cutting and, as a result, paid higher wages to their workers.