| 单词 | stalking-horse |
| 例句 | It does not have an initial offer in hand, known in bankruptcy parlance as a stalking-horse bidder, which sets a minimum price other suitors can top in an auction. Lordstown Motors files bankruptcy, sues Foxconn 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The approved marketing and sales process allows for a stalking-horse bid - a starting bid for any auction - and for the sale to the highest bidder of some or all of the Citgo parent's shares. U.S. judge approves sales process for shares in Citgo Petroleum's parent 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z In 2004, Roberts was accused of bribing a stalking-horse candidate to siphon primary votes from a Democratic challenger. Plaintiffs in Trump's lawsuits embrace conspiracy theories — one has even violated election laws 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Originally rumored to be the first, or so-called stalking-horse, bidder, Mr. Ben-Avraham said that he had decided to wait until he had all his financing in place. Barneys Bidding Starts, and It’s a Bet on the Future of Shopping 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But when it came to pressuring politicians and other groups to jump-start arena plans, he couldn’t have been better placed had the NHL been paying him as a stalking-horse consultant all along. After years of trying and a cast of characters in between, the NHL will finally put a team in Seattle 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Lampert is now focused on putting together a so-called stalking-horse bid for as many as 500 Sears stores and other assets, including the Kenmore brand, one of the people said. Sears, Lenders Nearing Larger Bankruptcy Financing Deal Without Lampert 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z ESL is also exploring a stalking-horse bid to buy “a large portion” of the company’s stores in the bankruptcy process. Sears Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Lantern then stepped in with its so-called stalking-horse offer, which was supposed to set a floor for an auction. Weinstein Co. sale approved by bankruptcy court 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Such an offer is known as a stalking-horse bid, meant to set a floor in a court-supervised auction. Gawker, Filing for Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Suit, Is Said to Be for Sale 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Companies selling their businesses in bankruptcy often choose a stalking-horse bidder to set a floor price on the assets in the hope of spurring a robust bidding process. Phoenix Brands to Sell Household Products Businesses 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Digital First and Tribune submitted early bids, hoping to be named the so-called stalking-horse bidder. Freedom insiders confirm bid for O.C. Register ahead of next week's auction 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z District Court Judge Mark Wallace in Santa Ana on Monday approved the request by moving back the deadline for so-called stalking-horse bids, which set a minimum price for a bankrupt company’s assets. Daily News parent to bid for OC Register, Press Enterprise 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The so-called stalking-horse bidders — Anchorage Capital Group, Luxor Capital Group and Falcon Investment Advisors — hope the company will sell for considerably more. Judge clears path for sale of troubled film studio Relativity Media 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Kavanaugh isn’t part of the stalking-horse group seeking to buy the company’s assets, according to people familiar with the matter. Relativity Media Puts Brakes on Hurried Sale Process 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The company is seeking the approval of bidding procedures with Blackhawk serving as a stalking-horse bidder. U.S. Trustee objects to Patriot Coal bid process, Blackhawk deal 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Despite speculation that she was a stalking-horse, urged by her cousin to siphon votes from Mr. Lancman, she insisted that she had contemplated running for higher office even before Mr. Ackerman announced his retirement. Democratic Race in Queens Proffers Candidates but No Obvious Front-Runner 2012-06-20T02:40:18Z While the German Doctors use Greek as a stalking-horse for Teutonic psychology, these English gentlemen use it as a dressmaker's model upon which they exhibit home-made English lyrics and British stock morality. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z At this period—end of May—the males may be secured by careful approach under the stalking-horse. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z I seem to be used as a stalking-horse by friends and enemies alike, and get the benefit of the charges each time they miss their aim. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Kitty was still the stalking-horse behind which, for whatever reasons, he machinated. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Court papers said there were discussions with some holders of the $130 million in second-lien notes who may become the so-called stalking-horse at auction. Lehman, Harrisburg, Madoff, Dodgers, Real Mex: Bankruptcy 2011-10-18T13:19:03Z The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z After relieving his feelings he falls back on "Brother Lard," who appears as a convenient stalking-horse for both sides. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z The Mary of his pages is a complex personage, and not what she might so easily become—a mere picturesque stalking-horse of melodrama. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Incredible that he should have chosen Kitty for his stalking-horse—yet whom else had there been to choose? The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z He was now a solemn stalking-horse, bearing a rigid, buckram-mailed showman, whose only sound or movement resided in the plates of his armour, or his lath sword or gilded spontoon. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z Before the auction, Google signed a contract to be the so-called stalking-horse bidder with a guaranteed offer of $900 million. Apple, Microsoft Group Wins Approval to Buy Nortel Patents 2011-07-11T21:19:54Z The search engine market leader had opened the bidding in April with a $900 million stalking-horse bid, and had been expected to be a winner. Apple, RIM group wins $4.5 billion Nortel patent auction 2011-07-01T12:21:21Z Any rival bidders must initially name a price $55.5 million higher than the stalking-horse bid. Dish Network Approved as Terrestar ‘Stalking-Horse’ Bidder 2011-06-21T19:19:04Z For the Kremlin, the idea of a stalking-horse party isn’t new. Oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov Set To Head New Party 2011-06-12T14:00:00Z Borders would soon select a stalking-horse bidder as part of the bidding procedure, the paper said. Najafi Cos in discussions to buy Borders: report 2011-06-08T00:10:27Z A $290 million “stalking-horse” offer from Cobalt Video, a venture between lenders including Monarch Alternative Capital LP, set the sale procedure and opened the company to competitive bidding from Cobalt and four other parties. Dish Network Said to Win Blockbuster Auction at $320 Million 2011-04-06T09:17:06Z Blockbuster, once the world’s largest movie-rental chain, has a “stalking-horse” offer, or lead bid, from Cobalt Video, a venture between lenders including Monarch Alternative Capital LP. Blockbuster Said to Get Bids From Icahn, Dish, SK Telecom 2011-04-01T21:16:01Z At a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, the company will ask the federal bankruptcy judge overseeing its case to grant Brookfield’s plan “stalking-horse” status, meaning that it will set the baseline for competing bids. General Growth Considers New Simon Offer 2010-05-03T23:02:00Z Station said the "stalking-horse" bid involves a "significant new investment" by the Fertittas and a "substantial cash recovery" for senior bank lenders. UPDATE 1-Station Casinos gets $772 mln bid to exit Chap. 11 2010-04-20T00:45:00Z Democrats say the constitutionality argument is a stalking-horse for the GOP's broader opposition to reform. 2010-01-03T05:00:00Z For many years we have been the butt of the Tibetans, and China their stalking-horse. The Unveiling of Lhasa With a strong master Wolsey would have won; with a flabby sensualist as his stalking-horse he was bound to lose, unless he remained always at his side. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Then a victim became necessary—a stalking-horse to mislead the minions of justice, and whose punishment would ensure his own safety. The Queen Against Owen From that time forth, throughout all this monstrous period—a very nightmare in the history of France—he is no more than a stalking-horse for the ambitious Gascon. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The cardinal was put forward as a stalking-horse, to be discarded at the right moment. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 The first time that I saw him, I fancy Robert was pretty old already: he had certainly begun to use his years as a stalking-horse. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Of course, he had noticed it at the first glance, but had not thought of making it a stalking-horse—the thicket seeming to offer him a better advantage. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains The stalking-horse was, no doubt, the earliest decoy or shield under which the ancient fowler got near his birds with the crossbow or gun. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Requital for the assassination of the Austrian heir apparent and the Pan-Serb propaganda serves as a stalking-horse. World's War Events, Vol. I The work in its completed form is a history of the three Dutch governors of New York, whom Irving uses as a stalking-horse for purposes of satire. Washington Irving And yet, it wasn't very big of Terry to be using him as a stalking-horse for her love for Braithwaite; he felt morally certain that that was what she was doing. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel This favourite stalking-horse of incendiary politics is but the secret hiding-place of retreat from the "force of government." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The Queen sees from the Manchester Speeches that the Ballot is to be made the stalking-horse of the Radicals. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 My mind was so full of my beautiful new acquaintance that I must needs approach her in my talk, and I used Jack Rollinson as a sort of stalking-horse. In Direst Peril And now we shall be sure of a gorilla, if there’s one in Africa, for I’ll use you as a stalking-horse.” The Gorilla Hunters Does Prudence, gentle Matron, force On Folly in her 'teens The value of a stalking-horse When hunting Rank and Means? Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses This is the origin of the recent parliamentary reform: the Whigs, in place without being in power, resolved as usual upon a coup-d'�tat, and looked about for a stalking-horse. Sketches First, take the North great battle or, rather, stalking-horse—Abolition. Border and Bastille But the unwisdom of the king serves him for a stalking-horse while secretly he pursues the goal of his private ambition. The Growth of English Drama The claim of kindred cannot for ever be the stalking-horse for injustice.' The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs But where's the reverence, or where the nous, To ride on one's religion thro' the lobby, Whether a stalking-horse or hobby, To show its pious paces to "the house"? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood In his rambling silences they found the spur for their unkind eloquence, and too often Pa was used as a stalking-horse for their angers. Nocturne Depend upon it, Sappho loved her verses more sincerely than she did Phaon, and Petrarch his sonnets better than Laura, who was indeed but his poetical stalking-horse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The animals he kept, instead of being safe running horses for him, generally made him a safe stalking-horse for others. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 483, April 2, 1831 Thus Balder the Beautiful in my hands is little more than a stalking-horse to carry two heavy pack-loads of facts. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul For the same reason, the passions are the principal theme of poets and the stalking-horse of actors. Essays of Schopenhauer God is too often a convenient stalking-horse for human selfishness. The House Behind the Cedars From that time forth, throughout all this monstrous period - a very nightmare in the history of France - he is no more than a stalking-horse for the ambitious Gascon. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Just such a stalking-horse was Captain Paget; and Mr. Sheldon lost no time in putting him into action. Birds of Prey The stalking-horse is still part of the sporting equipment of some old Thames-valley farmhouses, but not in this neighbourhood. The Naturalist on the Thames How often in churches there are men professing to be eager for the glory of God, who are, perhaps half-unconsciously, using it as a stalking-horse, behind which they may shoot game for their own larder! Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts I take no delight in the stalking-horse, for I catch such cold that I am like to founder myself at that sport. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 It is not the first time that religion has been made the stalking-horse for criminal ambition, nor is it the last. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII The boy is a mere stalking-horse, behind which each of these greedy chiefs expects to get back his own lands; and if they can get them back by any other means, well and good. Hereward, the Last of the English "She is a good stalking-horse anywhere;" and Tom detailed, with plenty of humour, the effect of his microscope and his lecture on the drops of water. Two Years Ago, Volume II. But a statement of high moral purpose from the author of "The Dunciad" was almost inevitably the stalking-horse of an unworthy action. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood Humanity is a very pretty stalking-horse for political orations, Bob," quietly returned the father; "but it will scarcely count for much with an old campaigner. Wyandotte Butts had been introduced as a stalking-horse, but there was no doubt about Si's admiration of his "handiness." The Magnetic North Noailles intrigued against it; but his object was to use Elizabeth as a stalking-horse for Mary Stewart. England under the Tudors I fear many people make the Lord Jesus Christ a stalking-horse on which to secure their ends. Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 But where's the reverence, or where the nous, To ride on one's religion through the lobby, Whether as stalking-horse or hobby, To show its pious paces to "the house." The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe Yes; Hamor and Shechem, and all the men of their city, for attempting to make God and religion the stalking-horse to get Jacob's daughters to wife, were together slain with the edge of the sword. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Religion to most men is but a by-business, with which they use to fill up spare hours; or as a stalking-horse, which is used to catch the game. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works The fear lay much upon him that danger threatened Gamba and his associates; yet to seek them out in the present conjuncture might be to play the stalking-horse to their enemies. The Valley of Decision Good principles are indeed used as the stalking-horse under cover of which pernicious designs may be advanced; but the better seeds are thus disseminated and fructify after the ill design has failed. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Do not think the world was blind to merit before your time, nor make the reputation of great geniuses the stalking-horse to your vanity. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Better never profess, than to make profession a stalking-horse to sin, deceit, to the devil, and hell. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Better never profess, than to make profession a stalking-horse to sin, Deceit, to the Devil, and Hell. Life and Death of Mr. Badman The Ministry had their candidate, a stalking-horse, useful only to receive the purely Ministerial votes. Albert Savarus But Mary's death was as convenient a stalking-horse to him as to the pope; and now the Armada was coming in earnest. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Though she used him as a stalking-horse, he, after all, was playing with her as a cat plays with a mouse. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Perfect candor is dictated by envy, or some other unfriendly feeling, making friendship a stalking-horse, under cover of which it shoots the arrow which will rankle. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. As You Like It Her stalking-horse was a man in high favor, a courtier, cold and sanctimonious, whom she never received at her own house. Another Study of Woman That revolt of Saint-Antoine got up by traitor Royalists for a stalking-horse? The French Revolution |
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