Sentence examples for Asked for a bid from inspiring English sources

She said MBNA was asked for a bid because it was a major issuer of affinity cards.

The Manhattan Beach school district has asked for a minimum bid of 84 cents a square foot of classroom space at the Center Middle School, Holt said.

The Manhattan school district has asked for a minimum bid of 84 cents per square foot of classroom space at the Center Middle School, Holt said.

The tone was set from the outset when Mr. Sayre asked for an initial bid of $100,000, which was met with silence.

After that, Miliband's questions were irrelevant: he asked for a pause in Rupert Murdoch's bid for the rest of BSkyB, which Labour had previously accepted was separate from phone-hacking; why Rebekah Brooks had not been sacked, which is a good question, but not one for the Prime Minister; and a rhetorical one to put "catastrophic judgement" and "Andy Coulson" into the same sentence.

That put the fund in a position to ask for a higher bid price from commodities giant, Glencore, which is in talks to take over Xstrata.

Dubi said the Norwegian bid team asked for a meeting with the IOC earlier this year for an explanation of all the requirements and costs.

The Guardian has also reported that Papa Massata Diack asked for a $5m cash payment during the bidding process for the 2017 World Championships.

Any bank that had seen the listing and asked for an application could have bid, she said.

Fletcher asked for an extension to the bidding process so that American shipbuilding firms could tailor proposals to these requirements, and this was granted.

"When companies make a large purchase of machines, they ask for a few bids, but that doesn't normally happen in medicine," Mr. Weber said.