Sentence examples for bid to open from inspiring English sources

It was held in a bid to "open dialogue" with young people from Muslim communities.

The retailer's bid to open in Japan is seen as a test of American retailers' ability to enter the Japanese market.

After a dispute with his cousins, Mr. Chang went to Natchez, Miss., in an ill-fated bid to open a riverboat casino.

Yet Obama's bid to open a dialogue with Iran – the so-called "unclenched fist" – may, conversely, be strengthened by these latest developments.

The approval of the drilling re-starts Shell's 25-year bid to open up an area of the Arctic for oil exploration.

As we see during a vitriolic public hearing on Ms. Moskowitz's bid to open a second facility in an unused public school, pitting neighbor against neighbor for the future of their children can be a dangerous strategy.

They don't yet expect major changes from bids to open up drilling offshore on the east coast or in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

A private university college set up by the philosopher AC Grayling is bidding to open a sister state secondary school where the pupils could have access to lectures by top academics including Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Niall Ferguson.

But more insidious in the short term is the fact that the unlimited expansion of any popular school, a coalition policy in the last parliament, means there is nothing to stop existing grammar schools bidding to open "annexes" (in effect new selective schools) locally.

There have been 281 bids to open free schools in England in the second round of applications, the Department for Education has said.

Warwick is up against 17 other bids to open a science and engineering research campus - which would help New York compete with US research powerhouses in California and Boston.