Sentence examples for bid to keep pace from inspiring English sources

He had arrived in Scotland as a marquee signing (on a £20-000-a-week contract) to supposedly jet-fuel Rangers' bid to keep pace with Celtic.

Etihad, which was founded five years ago by the Abu Dhabi government, has expanded aggressively in recent months in a bid to keep pace with its larger Gulf rival, Emirates.

Of course, while zooming around the city in a vain, sleep-deprived bid to keep pace with the mad schedule of a multiweek festival like Performa, the second visual art performance biennial, you inevitably suffer losses of focus and drive.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, whose red sandstone headquarters was the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki's first American commission, has acquired more than 120 works in the last year in a bid to keep pace with its rival up north, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which has spent $125 million in two years.

Apple is stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts in a bid to keep pace with rivals who have been driving full-throttle down a machine learning-powered AI superhighway, thanks to their liberal attitude to mining user data.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has pledged to continue to invest in India as it bids to keep pace with rivals in the country that have landed large investments from big name backers.

His keeping just needs to keep pace.

Castle Harlan raised its bid for the steakhouse chain 6.3percentt from $16 a share, or $67 million, to keep pace with Mr. Icahn's renewed bid of $17 a share.

But Reading were soon back on top after the break, as Middlesbrough struggled to keep pace in their bid to record a third consecutive away win.

But even if Citigroup obtains legal damages, which legal experts doubt, by abandoning its bid for Wachovia, it lost its best chance to keep pace with the rapid consolidation of the banking industry.

Karla Silvestre, 45, director of community engagement at Montgomery College, is making a first bid for office because she said the school system needs to keep pace with rapid change amid shifts in the student population and the role of technology.