Sentence examples for bid to compel from inspiring English sources

In its suit, Ericsson also alleged that Samsung, in a bid to compel Ericsson to lower its royalty demands, had refused to license Samsung's own industry-standard patents that are essential for modern mobile telephony.

The mistrial caused delays — Ms. Mosby's office appealed to Maryland's highest court in a successful bid to compel Officer Porter to testify against his fellow officers — but the next up, Edward M. Nero, was acquitted in May.

The move prompted Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, to block all of Trump's nominees to the justice department in a bid to compel the administration to reverse course.

Tasked with raising the funds to pay the king's ransom, the Estates-General seized the opportunity to propose reforms, but those efforts were rebuffed by the dauphin, Charles (later Charles V). Étienne Marcel, a prominent Paris merchant, launched an ill-fated bid to compel Charles to submit to the Estates-General.

Lawyers for Sells – the first inmate to die using the new pentobarbital – and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, a Mexican national who is scheduled to be lethally injected on 9 April, issued several lawsuits in a bid to compel Texas to disclose information about the drugs.

A lawyer for one of the witnesses says the anti-doping body's bid to compel Shane Charter and Nima Alavi to give evidence in its case against 34 Essendon players under the Commercial Arbitration Act did not mention the act until 1 December.

While Dow Jones has a controlling interest in Telerate, traders figured that the target may need to compel a higher bid from its majority owner.

This is not the first time the AWA has been used to try to compel technology companies to do the bidding of government agencies.

This was challenged on the ground that the federal government has no right to compel state executive-branch officials to do its bidding.

The car, which is expected to become the most expensive Bentley ever sold at auction, was parked in Midtown to compel members of the American 1 percent to place bids this summer.

He reiterated that his report had "identified serious and wide-ranging issues with the bidding and selection process" despite the fact that he did not have the power to compel corrupt former Fifa officials to cooperate or to seize evidence.