Sentence examples for bid to stand from inspiring English sources

Grass-roots chavista radicals had backed Mr Samán's bid to stand for mayor of Caracas.

Bolter has since abandoned her bid to stand in South Basildon in Essex.

In Bolivia, meanwhile, president Evo Morales appeared to have lost his referendum bid to stand for a fourth successive term.

The FA left the decision to play the match up to the French Football Federation, but it emerged on Saturday that the game will go ahead in a bid to stand up against those who committed Friday's attacks.

Dyke said the decision on whether to oppose Blatter's bid to stand again would be taken by the FA board but added that the Swiss should "probably stick to" his original promise to stand down in 2015.

Tickets had long since been snapped up by London's US population - the under-21 portion of it, anyway - and in the absence of a support band, the hour before showtime was devoted to elbowing each other in a bid to stand closest to the stage.

We supported Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid for the right to stand for a third term because we strongly believe that voters deserve as rich a choice as possible on Election Day — and term limits narrow that choice.

(Reuters) THE AMERICAS CHILE: PINOCHET RULING -- The Supreme Court said it will deliver its formal ruling Tuesday on whether Gen. Augusto Pinochet can retain immunity from prosecution, which has blocked bids to force him to stand trial for alleged human rights abuses.

Blatter was said to have spent the weekend since his election victory, following which he blamed attempts to oust him on bitterness from the Americans and English for losing their World Cup bids, listening to pleas to stand down from those closest to him.

The Dutch FA president, Michael van Praag, and the German FA's Wolfgang Niersbach, himself now battling allegations about the 2006 World Cup bid, are also considering whether to stand or hold on to see if a vacancy arises at Uefa.

Viewed another way, it is was an attempt to get Sallie Mae at a substantial discount while claiming to stand by the previous bid.