Sentence examples for bid to affect from inspiring English sources

The hope may be to avoid a repetition of 2005, when live television showed voters clambering into the rear window of a polling station by ladder, after riot police, in a bid to affect results, had blocked them from entering by the front door.

But as long as the oil-exporting cartel sticks to conservative cuts in a bid to affect medium-term sentiment, crude could stay within the $60.00 to $70.00 trading band heading into 2009.

As far back as 2007, the Bush administration gave the CIA approval to launch "black" operations in Iran in a bid to affect regime change.

If a shadowy psy-ops operation isn't allegedly programming your voting behaviour with hyper-targeted Facebook ads, bots and state-sponsored trolls are spreading partisan tweets and "the Russians" are leaking caches of incriminating political party emails in a bid to affect public opinion.

A spokesman for the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state's electricity grid, said today that the presentation appeared to highlight a previously identified flaw related to the ability of companies to use their bidding strategies to affect the market-clearing price for electricity.

If they do not email you back, do not bid on the item unless your question wasn't going to affect your bidding.

While it might have been for business reasons, it also might have been a strategic move to affect the bidding for Clearwire.

Turkey's doping problems threaten to affect Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Olympics.

Annika Sorenstam did not let a cold affect her bid to become the L.P.G.A. Tour's first 10-time winner in 34 years.

But this extended family is also one that has run afoul of the law in ways that could affect their bid to gain permanent custody of Elian, whose father in Cuba wants him returned, experts in custody law say.

Much worse, for Mr Murdoch, is the slim chance that the scandal might affect his bid to buy the rest of BSkyB, a hugely profitable satellite broadcaster in which News Corporation, his parent company, already has a 39% stake.