Sentence examples for went hostile from inspiring English sources

And WPP has been burned after it went hostile in past takeovers.

The LSE's shares have risen steadily of late, though they fell back slightly on the morning that Macquarie went hostile.

Neither the London Stock Exchange nor the Maple Group, which went hostile with its counteroffer of 3.7 billion Canadian dollars ($3.8 billion) on Monday, has made a compelling bid for the bourse.

Nasdaq went hostile, hoping to use its big stake in its British rival as leverage even as it sought to talk up the benefits of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Kraft Foods went hostile in its pursuit of Cadbury today when it launched a formal takeover offer worth £9.8bn that was swiftly rejected as "derisory" by the British company's board.

But a company went hostile on them and put them in play.

Would Mr. Schwartz go hostile again?

Going hostile for BSkyB no longer looks like an option.

The Belgian-Brazilian giant will now go hostile in response.

Maple also has the option of going hostile.

In other words, the lack of language by Coty on going hostile was intentional.