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Safe harbor   /seɪf hˈɑrbər/   Listen
Safe harbor

noun
1.
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



... "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
... at last to reach a port where at the worst the passengers can find rest, and where they may hope for a home better than any which they ever had in their old country. It is all very well to say that men and women had their choice whether they would reach the safe harbor ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... 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
... taffrail at each turn, and was not a little surprised at the coolness of the old seaman whom I called to take my place, in stowing himself snugly away under the long-boat for a nap. That was a sufficient lookout, he thought, for a fine night, at anchor in a safe harbor. ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... are living on a quiet sea, or already in the safe harbor; you do not feel the distress of a friend out in the raging storm,—or you must not ...
— Beethoven: the Man and the Artist - As Revealed in his own Words • Ludwig van Beethoven


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