Sentence examples for takeovers- from inspiring English sources

New Labour rightly distilled the lesson that there can be advantages to being open to international investment – think of Toyota's expanding Derbyshire plant – but wrongly leapt to the conclusion that the state's only duty in policing takeovers was to safeguard competition.

The two state-owned banks have the largest market shares, partly because the banking crisis led to a wave of takeovers with names such as Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley disappearing from the high street and "challenger bank" HBOS being rescued by Lloyds.

The last round of energy industry takeovers was in the late 1990s when new production in the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico caused the oil price to collapse.

Under competition rules in the UK, takeovers can be referred to the competition commission if there are doubts over the suitability of the new owner.

But success on the world ballet stage is not accomplished by hostile takeovers and the Mikhailovsky needs to become more than a holding company for Danilian's star clients.

It was BP's then chief executive, John Browne, who set the pace with quick takeovers of first Amoco, followed by Arco and then Castrol.

Kiev and Washington have blamed Russia for inciting the takeovers.

A big and sustained fall in the oil price can be relied on to set off a wave of takeovers in the industry.

Essentially, Miliband is saying that the rules allowing the government to block takeovers on public interest grounds should be expanded and that this would oblige the government to carry out a proper assessment as to whether the takeover was in the national interest.

More fundamentally, there is the fear that Gove's fractured schools landscape – with no system of local oversight or accountability – will only increase the risk of such silent takeovers.

Takeovers could be on the cards in the UK utility sector, not just water companies but also electricity businesses, according to City analysts.