Sentence examples for bid to please from inspiring English sources

IT WAS a tricky few days for Barack Obama in his latest bid to please the Arab world in general and, more specifically, to break the logjam between Palestinians and Israelis.

GM seems the likeliest target, as it is making most money, but the UAW has been unusually reluctant to give clues.Traditionally, as a deadline approaches, both sides turn up the rhetoric in a bid to please their own supporters.

Shape-shifters of another kind, Hollywood action movies bend this way and that politically in a bid to please as many viewers as possible, but they almost always play out exactly the same, as entertaining violence leads to heroic individualism leads to the restoration of order.

Schettino said he had taken the ship so close to land for "commercial reasons" in a bid to please his passengers and those ashore.

The battle was all over within a day, but in a bid to please both sides these re-enactors are staging two different phases of the battle on two separate days.

And if you are a university with an industry-funded research unit, you'd be wise to focus on the academic way of working you understand and are good at in favor of some short-term bid to please your partner.

In another e-mail, dated November 14, 2007, the program manager stated that Lens.com had "been having me contact publisher[s] for different terms such as 1800contacts and Vision Direct and asking the publishers to please stop bidding on those specific terms.

The object is to please members who do the leaders' bidding and who like to cut ribbons to show that they've done something in Albany.

The object is to please lawmakers who do the leaders' bidding and who like to cut ribbons to show that they have achieved something in Albany.

But Levine said that if a bid were authorized, any buyer or buyers would have to pay extra to please the Steinbrenner/Yankees ownership.

If the respondents wanted to please the interviewers they may be expected to give a WTP closer to the bid.