Sentence examples for bid to exclude from inspiring English sources

The prosecution has lost its bid to exclude evidence of the accuser's sexual history from the trial.

For the "absurd and extraordinary" bid to exclude him to continue would be "an exorbitant waste of public time and money" benefiting only the lawyers involved, Carmody said.

Veganism, as defined by the Vegan Society, is a bid "to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose".

Despite being almost 100% ethnic Fijian, the army held out against Mr Speight's racist bid to exclude the country's Indians (44% of the population) from holding political office.As soon as the May rebellion was crushed, the army handed over control to a civilian administration headed by a former banker, Laisenia Qarase.

Fabrice Tourre, the former Goldman Sachs trader whose civil trial is scheduled to begin Monday, has tentatively lost his bid to exclude from evidence an e-mail that references the nickname "Fabulous Fab," given to him, he says, by a friend.

Later that day the ECHA's owners chose to disband their league and form the Canadian Hockey Association (CHA) in a bid to exclude the Montreal Wanderers, who had upset the other owners when they moved into a smaller arena that would reduce the visiting team's share of gate receipts.

The joint bid is to exclude the distribution rights to Absolut, which Seagram has held since 1994, but which Vin and Sprit has made clear will be sold separately.

Last May, for example, VWC organizers brought more than 1,500 Vermonters to the Capitol to thwart a bid by legislative insiders to exclude undocumented workers from the scope of the law.

This would apply to contracts above €5m (accounting for 60% of public-procurement contracts subject to EU-wide bidding) and where bids contain 50% or more goods and services from non-reciprocal countries.This local freedom to exclude bids threatens to fragment the EU's single market that Mr Barnier is supposed to be defending.

The consultation phase will look at four main areas: human rights and environmental protection, the ability to exclude bids that do not meet technical requirements, a review of stance on joint bids and whether to increase the World Cup to 40 teams.

While Google had no intention of winning, it bid to ensure that the airwaves would be subject to so-called openness requirements, meaning that Verizon Wireless, which won the bidding, would not be able to exclude Google services like Web search, Gmail and maps from phones using those frequencies.