Sentence examples for abort a bid from inspiring English sources
Last year they arrested his suspected heir-apparent, Salvatore Lo Piccolo.The aim of this week's Operation Perseus was to abort a bid by Cosa Nostra's most senior mobsters at large to agree upon a new leader and to reconstitute its governing board.
FIRST MAN: No bid-a-bid-bid.
Since then, it has struggled to fend for itself, battling stock shortages, facing an aborted bid attempt by retail billionaire Sir Philip Green, issuing profit warnings and failing to persuade a new generation of shoppers to visit its increasingly unfashionable stores.
In a bid to prevent the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses to prevent the birth of unwanted daughters, the Supreme Court directed federal and state governments to enforce laws banning ultrasound scans for the prenatal determination of sex.
On their first attempt, in May, adventurer James Ketchell and friend Ashley Wilson had to abort their bid to row from Geraldton in Western Australia to Port Louis in Mauritius just one day into the journey after electronic guidance systems failed.
"I talk about one word, one sentence, one day out of place, and, all of a sudden, the entire establishment turns on you," Representative Akin complained to the conservative radio talk-show host Dana Loesch on Tuesday as he spurned pleas from Mitt Romney and other G.O.P. big shots to abort his bid.
PepsiCo never made a bid.
His book, "La Sale Guerre" (The dirty war), published in France, alleges that soldiers dressed as rebels massacred civilians (in a bid to turn hearts and minds against the Islamist rebels) and that the security forces tortured many Islamist prisoners to death.Rewriting historyThe trial has turned into a debate over the army's decision to abort the election.
Comcast never made a bid.
Sell if you can find a bid.
