Sentence examples for an aborted bid from inspiring English sources

Ahmadinejad joined Twitter in March 2017, part of an aborted bid for a third term as Iran's president.

The TS325-1 gas turbines were prototypes from an aborted bid for a military helicopter contract which Continental was not putting to use at the time.

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.

Or perhaps London will swoop an intriguing possibility since it would leave NASDAQ, which owns a stake in the London Stock Exchange following its aborted bid, with an interest in BATS.Others think BATS could become a buyer itself.

The Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) has become a political football following the controversies over the aborted bid by a Chinese oil company (CNOOC) to acquire the assets of a U.S. oil firm Unocal and the failed attempt by a state-owned Arab firm (Dubai Ports World) to operate several major US ports.

"I am convinced, and I am advised by counsel, that since my actions did not extend beyond facilitating the meeting that gave Mr Bin Hammam an opportunity to pursue his aborted bid for the Fifa presidency, I would be fully exonerated by any objective arbiter.

In a statement, Warner said: "I am convinced, and I am advised by counsel, that since my actions did not extend beyond facilitating the meeting that gave Mr Bin Hammam an opportunity to pursue his aborted bid for the Fifa presidency, I would be fully exonerated by any objective arbiter.

In a statement dated 20 June, Warner said : "I am convinced that since my actions did not extend beyond facilitating the meeting that gave Mr Bin Hammam an opportunity to pursue his aborted bid for the Fifa presidency, I would be fully exonerated by any objective arbiter".

And the firm's aborted bid for Yahoo!, an online giant, has done nothing to reassure investors.

(The company last year failed in its efforts to acquire Avon Products in an aborted $10.7 billion bid supported by Mr. Buffett).

Former chief executive Nick Buckles survived the Olympics debacle, as well as an aborted £5.2bn bid for Danish cleaning company ISS in 2011, but finally left the company in May with a £1.2m payoff after the company issued a profit warning.