Sentence examples for backed a bid from inspiring English sources

Gingrich backed a bid to impeach and remove the president from office.

The US backed a bid by the United Arab Emirates to host a major international agency promoting green energy.

Mr Forster had strongly backed a bid by Magna, an Austro-Canadian car-parts firm, and Russia's Sberbank to buy Opel/Vauxhall.

Werner Seifert, Deutsche Börse's chief executive, was determined to buy London's rival LSE exchange; his supervisory board, chaired by Rolf Breuer, who plays the same role at Deutsche Bank, backed a bid.

In an audacious move, the mayor and his top political aides had backed a bid last year by the state Independence Party chairman, Frank MacKay — a strong Bloomberg ally — to oust the party's leadership in New York City, a gambit that failed, and quickly backfired on the Bloomberg administration.

Lord of the Rings actor Orlando Bloom has backed a bid from his home county to become UK City of Culture in 2017.

French politicians pledged to back a bid by SNCF.

The government has offered to back a bid with hundreds of millions of pounds of loans and grants and a possible equity stake.

Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. dismissed a third offer by the United Refining Company yesterday and urged shareholders to back a bid by Lukoil Holding of Russia.

The planned £6bn flotation of Worldpay is back on track after one of its private equity backers warned of the risks of backing a bid from French rival Ingenico.

One person with knowledge of the negotiations, who spoke on condition that he not be identified, said British Airways, which already owns a 10percentt stake in Iberia, was considering either joining the Texas Pacific bid or backing a bid from one of two other private equity firms, which were not named.