Sentence examples for bid to extend from inspiring English sources
Now the group behind Foster-Burnell's case is going back to court in a bid to extend the ruling.
Ayliffe-Chung's stint working on local vegetable farms in a bid to extend her working holiday visa had just begun.
Baseball will bid to extend the experiment, maybe make it permanent, in negotiations with the players union.
House Democrats failed in a bid to extend jobless benefits, raising the prospect that aid could run out for millions of Americans headed into the holidays.
The United States has rejected with unseemly sharpness Canada's bid to extend her control over the Northwest Passage in order to prevent pollution her Arctic territories.
In another bid to extend its influence, Fairtrade is also working with Waitrose to oversee the supermarket's own ethical trading scheme.
Nadal is bidding to extend his 33-match winning streak at Roland Garros and move one step closer to a ninth French Open title.
Virgin Trains will soon be bidding to extend the west coast franchise, which ends in 2018, so will be anxious to correct any perceptions that its services are overcrowded and that customer satisfaction is falling.
McDermott, who has signed a new contract, takes his team to Middlesbrough in the Championship's stand-out fixture on Saturday, bidding to extend a run of four successive victories and keep within reach of the Championship's top two, West Ham and Southampton.
But the longed-for Wimbledon sequel was scuttled at the quarterfinal stage Wednesday, with Federer, bidding to extend his men's record eight Wimbledon championships, squandering a two-sets-to-none lead and a match point in falling to hard-serving, free-swinging Kevin Anderson, a 6-foot-8 South African who played the match of his life in claiming a 2-6, 6-7 (7-5), 7-5, 6-4, 13-11 victory.
The House defeated a bid Tuesday to extend for nine months the government's authority to conduct roving wiretaps of terror suspects, along with two other expiring provisions of the Patriot Act.
