Sentence examples for abandon a bid from inspiring English sources

An outcry forced his 23-year-old son to abandon a bid for the top job overseeing the agency that runs La Défense, Paris's business district.

The energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday it would abandon a bid for Cove Energy, leaving PTT Exploration and Production of Thailand as the sole remaining suitor for the oil and gas exploration company.

In 2008, Huawei was forced to abandon a bid for 3Com, which makes antihacking computer software for the United States military, among other products, after an American government panel raised questions about the national security risks.

Hundreds of migrants have crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe following days of chaos and confrontation.

Those included the closure of The News of the World, a decision to abandon a bid to take full control of Britain's biggest satellite broadcaster, and the payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in legal costs, out-of-court settlements and compensation to employees who have been laid off.

The MP referred to the way Mr Murdoch's global company News Corporation was forced to abandon a bid to increase its stake in BSkyB, a highly profitable satellite television network, from 39% to 100%, by the threat of a parliamentary vote against the takeover.At this mention of a deal worth hundreds of millions of pounds, Mr Murdoch's mood of contrition seemed to fade a bit.

The Toshiba-Tokyo Electric team also abandoned a bid to build Turkey's second nuclear power plant after the Turkish government indicated that it was interested in a different kind of technology than the boiling water reactors that are Toshiba's specialty.

Just weeks after abandoning a bid for New York's thoroughbred horse racing franchise, the casino magnate Steve Wynn announced yesterday that he would join one of the four consortiums still vying for the prize.

The two are a near-perfect fit, but Hershey cannot afford to buy Cadbury, and Cadbury cannot buy Hershey without the approval of the trust that controls the firm.Another possibility is that having recently abandoned a bid for J. Sainsbury, a British supermarket chain, the QIA might now want to buy Cadbury instead.

Earlier this year, he abandoned a bid to return to the company's management, but on Friday he demanded to know why he had been fired, and he also pressed the company on reports that it would let some of its former board members stay on as executive officers.

Rotherham's MP's has said it was "hilarious" the UKIP leader was trapped in an office after abandoning a bid to open it.