Sentence examples for direct bid from inspiring English sources
Imetal's tender offer was a direct bid to 8200 stockholders to buy any or all of their 2 1/2 million shares for $42.50 a share in cash.
This time he has made a more direct bid for power, allying himself with a controversial but popular former militia commander, Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose solid block of votes could be enough to push Ghani into the second round as the main Pashtun candidate.
He ended with another reference to his time in the United States, a direct bid to the English-speaking Muslims that the magazine was intended to attract to the extremist group: I've personally attended mosques in over 10 states in America; and in all of them, one will always be able to categorize a large group of Muslims as having anti-American sentiments even if they aren't that practicing.
Incorporating those newly acquired network security technologies without a price hike is a direct bid to steal market share from the current leader in network security: networking giant Cisco Systems.
Hasan now made a direct bid for power: he had Ibn Ra'iq assassinated and succeeded him as amir al-umara, receiving the honorific laqab of Nasir al-Dawla ("Defender of the Dynasty").
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Such direct bidding would allow China to obscure potentially valuable information on its appetite for bonds from Wall Street.
While there is no prohibition on direct bidding by foreign government entities, the Treasury's accommodation of China is unusual.
The American government now sells about 20% of its debt through direct bids placed through a website according to calculations by Bloomberg.
"Direct bidding is open to a wide range of investors, but as a matter of general policy we do not comment on individual bidders," said Matt Anderson, a Treasury Department spokesman.
"There's just no secret about direct bidding," said a former Treasury official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because his current employer has not authorized him to speak to the press.
