Sentence examples for awkward bid from inspiring English sources

Silber was South, and he had an awkward bid at his second turn.

The Aspern Papers is haunted by the spectre of past and future consummations, both achieved and desired, sexual and literary: Juliana's passionate love affair with Aspern; the narrator's longed-for acquisition of the papers; Miss Tina's awkward erotic bid at snaring the narrator for herself.

From 1998, when Agarwal made his first awkward hostile bid for Canadian aluminum company Alcan's local arm Indian Aluminum (Indal), he has come a long way.

To ensure there are no awkward clashes as members shuttle from bid to bid, each city is given their own floor - Madrid on the fourth and Istanbul and Tokyo on the first and second.

Its failure to win the bidding war is awkward for Dell as it put forth a strong argument for why it wanted the company in the first place.

After an awkward silence, he allows the bidding to continue and another horse is led into the ring.

Should the Palestinians fail to muster the nine votes they need to move their application forward, the United States will not be put in the awkward position of vetoing the membership bid.

As if this whole thing wasn't awkward enough already, in 1984 Michael Jackson out-bid Paul for the Northern Song Catalogue, aka the rights to all the Beatles songs.

But given that China had invested funds and prestige in the bid, a rejection would have been awkward, say people who went to the Brasília meeting.

Portugal Telecom now finds itself in the awkward position of having failed to endorse a bid that had been accepted by its investors at a shareholders' meeting on June 30.

One of the demoralizing things that sometimes happened to her was that rather awkward and lonely and unattractive men would make a bald bid for her, implying that she had to be in the same boat as they were.