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Safe harbor

noun

The target company defends itself by acquiring a company so onerously regulated that it makes the target less attractive.

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"Safe harbor" Quotes from Famous Books

... mystery; but give yourself no uneasiness; I'll be bound the child has made a safe harbor somewhere. She ...

— Natalie - A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds • Ferna Vale

... cove made a quiet and safe harbor. Here they anchored and made ready to make coffee, roast potatoes and ...

— Three Little Cousins • Amy E. Blanchard

... foam-white stream, and for many miles the engines cautiously feel their way among stupendous walls, passing haltingly over bridges hung perilously between perpendicular cliffs by slender iron rods, or creep like mountain-cats from ledge to ledge, so that when they have reached safe harbor beside the little red depot they never fail to pant and wheeze like a tired, gratified dog beside his master's door. Aside from the coming and going of these trains, the town is silent ...

— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland

... "Ethnology," in which he sought a scientific basis for his claim for the negro's equality with the white man, was not so popular—with white people. The wave of enthusiasm which had swept the enfranchised slaves into what seemed at that time the safe harbor of constitutional right was not, after all, based on abstract doctrines of equality of intellect, but on an inspiring sense of justice (long dormant under the influence of slavery, but thoroughly awakened under the moral stress of the war), which conceded to every man the right of a voice ...

— Frederick Douglass - A Biography • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

... in there," he said, "and the Manhattan will find a safe harbor, as the stream though narrow, is deep and overhung ...

— Boy Scouts in the Philippines - Or, The Key to the Treaty Box • G. Harvey Ralphson

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