1. Mackenzie put a poison pill into place, which gave the company 60 days to find another suitor.

2. There were white knights and poison pills, Pac-Man defences and unbundling.

3. Getting an extension puts a player in a restricted salary class of so-called "poison pill" and then "base year.

4. Bull-Dog Sauce introduced a poison pill defence to stop the U.S. hedge fund's takeover attempt.

5. Ji Li Yang cast a poison pill to any potential hostile takeover efforts more difficult.

6. Most notably, it bans firms from frustrating a bidder by crippling themselves with debt or swallowing poison pills.

7. On Wednesday, they threatened to withdraw support for a minimum wage boost if the so-called poison pill amendment passed.

8. And a firm's environmental history has emerged as another potential poison pill no-one wants to swallow.

9. A deal might also end up acting as a poison pill for other potential acquirers.

10. Lipton lawyers in 1982 created a hostile bid against the poison pill.

11. A suicide pill is a term for any high-risk poison pill strategy that may discourage a potential acquirer but also place the takeover target under severe financial pressure.

12. I knew the debt ratio was too low, and you forgot to put on the poison pill.

13. The premium of the purchase price over the share price before the bid is higher on average when the target has a poison pill or staggered board than when it does not.

14. As one of the most important defensive measures of hostile acquisitions, poison pill has significant impact on corporate management structure and corporate market control.

15. Some believe this level of compensation is essentially a poison pill to put off any rival bidders.

16. As one of the most important defensive measures of hostile acquisitions, poison pill has significant impacts on corporate management structure and corporate market control.