Sentence examples for a failed bid from inspiring English sources

They joined forces a year ago in a failed bid to buy two ailing Philadelphia newspapers.

(He made a failed bid for the San Diego Padres last summer).

In 1996, he left the House for a failed bid for governor.

Wilkie left Capitol Hill in the mid-1990s to mount a failed bid for Congress.

He withdrew, citing his health; it was not a failed bid.

As for the takeovers, one was a failed bid and the other a new one.

In 2008, Nike offered millions of dollars in a failed bid to sign the surfer Jordy Smith to its label.

In 2004 Cain staged a failed bid for the Republican nomination for the state Senate in Georgia.

Refugees passed unhindered a day after police used stun grenades in a failed bid to prevent them from crossing.

Previously, Mr. Torres served as the National and State Legislative Director for the United Farm Workers of America after a failed bid for the California Assembly in 1972.

But he chose not to remain in academia, instead moving into advertising after a failed bid for a BBC traineeship.