Sentence examples for bid to split from inspiring English sources

An ambitious military offensive has been launched to retake a key town from Isis - in a bid to split the militant group's territories in two.

"A more likely scenario is that Danone and Cadbury combine for a bid to split the business, or Danone buying the whole thing and then selling the confectionary business to Cadbury".

In the early hours of Dec. 16, 1944, German forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium launched a surprise attack spearheaded by tanks along an 80-mile front in a bid to split the British-American front and capture Antwerp, the Allies' largest port.

Icahn and group of investors bid to split up media giant last August.

In his six years in office, Obama has invested diplomatic and political capital in advancing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a prospective treaty that carefully excludes China from membership in an apparent bid to split its would-be world island right down its Pacific littoral.

1961 Romania to Split U.N. Bid Romania was elected to the Security Council today after agreeing to split a two-year term with the Philippines.

The Berkshire bid would trump the current plan to split ResCap into mortgage origination – which the Fortress Investment Group had bid on — and legacy assets, which would go to its parent company, Ally.

Therefore, to model the dispatch function of the ISO and the individual behavior of the GENCO, it is naturally to split the bidding process into two parts [10, 11, 12].

And the commercial logic of the French consortium's bid — under which the companies plan to split the unit along transmission and distribution lines — was widely questioned.

Jean sees it as a sign that it is time to split with Douglas; she bids him farewell and departs.

Aetna rejected a takeover bid from WellPoint Health Networks and the ING Group and announced plans to split into separate health care and financial services companies.