Sentence examples for auction battle from inspiring English sources

If it fails to meet Icann's community criteria, it will be pitted against other top-level domain operators in a potentially pricey auction battle.

Cage paid $276,000 for a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull in July 2007, which the Sunday Telegraph claimed saw him locked in an "intense" auction battle with DiCaprio.

But that's fighting the last auction battle.

Monet painting fetches $30.8 million in auction bidding battle.

For many years at auction, they rarely battled with collectors over high-profile paintings, but walked away with less-sought-after works, which they stockpiled in a duty-free warehouse near the Geneva airport believed to hold more than 3,000 of their paintings and sculptures.

Those whose licences date back to 1995 are grouchy at having to hand back their spectrum and then battle at auction to be able to stay in business.

And now that those awards also seem headed for the auction block, a raucous battle has erupted in bluegrass country between those who argue that the collection should go to the highest bidder and those who say that it is an important part of Kentucky's heritage and should stay put.

As more consumers gravitate to auction hubs, a fierce battle for this lucrative territory is being mapped out by venerable houses as well as such go-go IPO successes as eBay and uBid (UBID).

A psychological process, escalation typically occurs in competitive situations such as auctions, strikes, custody battles, and mergers and acquisitions.

Estimated at £12m-18m, the painting sold at Sotheby's above estimate after a glacially slow bidding battle, by normal auction standards, between two anonymous buyers.

After a four-month battle between the auction giants Sotheby's and Christie's, the art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie's in New York in May.