Sentence examples for auction toward from inspiring English sources

Swoopo has added a feature allowing you to apply bidding fees from an auction toward buying the product outright, at a retail price listed on the site.

The success of eBay and television programs like "Antiques Roadshow" has increasingly pushed Clarke's and other midlevel auction houses toward the fine art market, or at least toward the expensive and away from the cheap.

Bidders did not pick up their virtual paddles again until the auction chugged toward its close.

He said he hoped to get some feedback from them on the actual pricing as the auction moved toward a close.

While rival Christie's has set up shop in Dubai as an outpost for its auctions geared toward the Middle East market, Sotheby's is betting on Qatar, a tiny nation the size of Connecticut that sits on vast oil wealth.

Revenues from the estate tax and from a 1 percent sales tax on auctions went toward the veterans' pension fund (aerarium militare).

The balance of power began to shift toward auction houses, most notably Sotheby's and Christie's, just before the First World War.

The proceeds of the auction will go toward reimbursing staff members for money the center owes them, Mr. Tulis said, noting that "it's a certainty that everyone will not be paid in full.

Here's hoping that these big bids continue to roll in — all proceeds from the auction will go toward the Raspberry Pi Foundation's goal of promoting computer science education in schools.

A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go toward The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

But Mr. Le Blay said the auction could speed efforts toward the creation of a foundation.