Sentence examples for attempts to bid from inspiring English sources

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

Many previous attempts to bid for contracts and a role from Nasa in manned space flight had failed, so Kelly's group had already acquired a large amount of solid information.

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.

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.

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.

We examine the best policies for determining when to call auctions and how much to bid, as well as the effects of 'maverickk" sites that attempt to subvert the bidding system.

It is up to political leaders to work effectively with private companies: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's largely unsuccessful attempts to garner bids from investors last year showed that, even with concessions and opportunity, private companies will be reticent to work with governments who exhibit signs of extremely mismanaged intervention into infrastructure projects.

The dispatcher hit a button in an attempt to "re-bid" — asking the network to refresh the data for a better fix.