Sentence examples for taking defensive measures from inspiring English sources

The Spanish government is taking defensive measures of its own, to try to prevent E.ON, a German energy company, from taking over Endesa of Spain.

Bidding companies often bypassed the board of the company they were trying to acquire to talk directly to shareholders, and target companies were often constrained from taking defensive measures or seeking rival bids.

A6 NATIONAL A8-11 14 Floridians Are Preparing Their Hurricane Defenses Two weeks into a new hurricane season -- with the first official tempest of 2005, Tropical Storm Arlene, already churning toward the Florida Panhandle -- homeowners across the state are taking defensive measures they might never have imagined before last year.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it was taking defensive measures to safeguard the country, preparing for the possibility that Israel becomes the target of retaliation for a Western attack on Syria, and the government authorized the calling-up of a limited number of reservists.

The company has taken defensive measures.

The responders began to take defensive measures.

We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans.

The insurers say they have had to take defensive measures to stay in business and pay claims as operating costs have climbed.

"If the E.U. doesn't take defensive measures when they are justified," he added, "we will risk encouraging a backlash against China's trade growth.

"We have taken defensive measures and removed the offending module," Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, The Post's managing editor, wrote in an editor's note on the site.

Such issues do not affect managed accounts; wrap clients can also take defensive measures, like selling losing positions in one account to offset gains in others, thus reducing tax bills.