Sentence examples for attempt to bid from inspiring English sources

But, "People also hold 'blind date' parties in an attempt to bid goodbye to their single lives," it continued.

Even over the phone, I could sense him shrugging his shoulders as I attempted to bid him down on his latest kiss-and-tell offering.

Mr. Pincus predicts that many in the general public will be thwarted in their attempts to bid "by a really complicated online process".

Serco has agreed to withdraw from the current tender process for an electronic monitoring contract worth up to £1m, while Mr Grayling plans moves to exclude G4S as it is still attempting to bid.

The list, which appeared after a member of the US Marshals failed to use BCC, identified all the parties attempting to bid on the bitcoin seized during a raid on the Silk Road marketplace.

But his short-lived attempt to ban no-bid contracts as a freeholder raises questions over whether his zeal for an ethics overhaul is more than just campaign hype and would last if he became governor and met resistance from lawmakers he could not control.

The auctioneer spent a fruitless and slightly uncomfortable forty seconds attempting to persuade someone to bid against Brad, before lowering his hammer.

It rejected an attempt by Britain's GEC to bid for Thomson-CSF, a defence-electronics firm, on the grounds of national security.

After a failed attempt to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers, HP this summer bid $610 million for the availability solutions division of Comdisco.

His later attempt to shoehorn bid-up tv into the proceedings was, I'm sure, the moment Charles Brand first contemplated tranquillisers.

Norris said on Tuesday that there had been a clear attempt to sabotage his bid to become Ireland's president.