Sentence examples for aborted bid from inspiring English sources
The second relates to retention bonuses given to chief executive Jeremy Darroch and finance chief Andrew Griffith worth respectively £2.1m and £960,000, which were awarded at the time of News Corp's now aborted bid for Sky.
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.
And the firm's aborted bid for Yahoo!, an online giant, has done nothing to reassure investors.
Ahmadinejad joined Twitter in March 2017, part of an aborted bid for a third term as Iran's president.
Miliband, the former Labour leader, said Ofcom's "fit and proper" review conducted during Murdoch's last aborted bid for full control of Sky in 2010 took many months.
"Think about when British Airways tried to buy KLM," Mr. Cahn said, referring to its aborted bid for the Dutch airline two years ago.
Edmonton, known as the Oil Capital of Canada, has aborted its bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games because of economic pressures resulting from plummeting prices of the black stuff.
Moritz in Switzerland aborted their bids at an early stage after gauging the public's disinterest.
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.
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.
"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.
