Sentence examples for Insufficient bid from inspiring English sources

He wanted to use Blackwood but guessed the opponents would notice that four no-trump was an insufficient bid.

The Legal Aid Agency has confirmed that "insufficient" tender bids were received from solicitors for new contracts in three of the 85 areas in England and Wales: Devon, the Isle of Wight, and Dyfed/Powys.

He said: "We were told there were insufficient other bids to take this forward, which is a huge frustration.

While Transatlantic deemed that bid insufficient, it has said that it would begin talks with the unit, National Indemnity, in hopes of securing a higher bid.

It was also found that contractors had insufficient time during the bid preparation period to check the design produced by the novated design team.

If West held the diamond jack and club ace, that would leave only 11 points outstanding, probably insufficient for an opening bid at unfavorable vulnerability.

But Human Genome swiftly rejected the bid as insufficient and instead put itself up for sale, inviting GlaxoSmithKline to participate in the auction process.

The remaining 370 acres of the psychiatric center is still on the market, as the Empire State Development Corporation last week deemed the bids submitted insufficient.

Temple-Inland had repeatedly rebuffed International Paper's takeover bids as insufficient and armored itself with a poison pill and other takeover defenses.

Land of Leather was approached by several firms interested in snapping up the company at a bargain price in November, but those talks quickly collapsed as the company declared the bids provided "insufficient value to shareholders".

Mackenzie has called the bid "opportunistic" and insufficient for its shareholders and has drawn up a shareholders-rights, or poison pill, plan of defense.