Sentence examples for bid to agree from inspiring English sources

The IAEA's Yukiya Amano has been trying to do his best to boost the good vibes at Baghdad with a trip to Tehran over the weekend in a bid to agree a framework for agency investigations into suspected Iranian nuclear weapons projects.

Ms. Preckwinkle, several other aldermen and a number of community and labor groups eventually persuaded the city's bid committee, Chicago 2016, to agree that if the city won the Games, it would set aside contracts for minority-owned businesses, jobs for local residents and new housing for low-income families.

This compromise was seen as addressing Moroccan concerns, in a bid to entice it to agree to a referendum.

Investors appeared to agree, bidding up Gucci's shares at one point by as much as 1.5percentt, largely because of the positive results at Saint Laurent.

In December, Texas won the right to negotiate with Darvish after posting a bid, then had 30 days to agree to a contract.

United Utilities, up 4p at 684p, was buoyed by talk during the week that LongRiver, the consortium which failed to agree a bid for Severn Trent, could be interested in the rival water company.

The players had only a few minutes to agree on bidding and defensive methods.

"This Regional Growth Fund proposal will benefit everyone in Tottenham and I urge the government to agree to Spurs' bid".

Li matched Newbridge's offer of 30.5 Singapore cents and for an undisclosed payment got the American company to agree to withdraw its bid.

In electronic voting protocols, the peers need to agree on the set of votes; with secure auctions, the peers need to agree on bids, and so on.

Monday's consultation document is the result of more than a year of discussions with all the interested and aggrieved parties, in a bid to find an agreed way forward.