hostile takeover

They recognized that the club’s direct democratic process — and its annual elections of three members of its 15-person board — was a vulnerability, and they assembled the first stages of a plan: a hostile takeover.

The first time Trump won the GOP nomination, in 2016, it was a hostile takeover by an insurgent with weak Republican credentials.

Republican Attorney General Dave Yost launched an investigation the next day into what he called the fund’s “susceptibility to a hostile takeover by private interests.”

He faced a challenge by activist shareholders and a hostile takeover.

There are hostile takeovers, Cold War-like developments of dubious technologies and increasingly intense robot armor.