Sentence examples for fierce auction from inspiring English sources

Monday's deal ended a fierce auction in which Spirit Amber fought off a clutch of other pub companies and private equity groups.

The 457-page book, simply titled "Autobiography," has become a bestseller in Britain, where it was released two weeks ago, and several publishers in the United States were engaged in a fierce auction for the American rights last week.

Her debut, Strange Companions, is currently the centre of a fierce auction in the UK, with nine publishers bidding to acquire it – she comes out of her open plan office at UEA to discuss how it feels.

The research and development budget for Next has been drained during fierce online auctions of era-appropriate silver and china, not to mention a six-team scavenger hunt across the antiques stores of the Midwest.

Just over a year later, Not Working was the subject of a fierce eight-way auction and has sold in 10 foreign territories.

In the throes of fierce competition, both auction houses were hemorrhaging money by promising the sellers commission-free deals, multimillion dollar financing, black-tie parties, elaborate vanity catalogs and donations to their favorite charities.

Fierce competition between auction giants Sotheby's and Christie's to get good property meant Sotheby's ended up giving many of last night's sellers guarantees, meaning the auction house promised them an undisclosed minimum sum regardless of the outcome of the sale.

That is until the arms race between the fierce rivals RM Auctions of Ontario, Canada, and Gooding & Company of Santa Monica, Calif., began to play out on the coastal Florida turf a few years ago.

A dark oil-on-canvas painting of a bearded man that was expected to sell for $600 to $1,000 fetched $420,000 as a suspected early work by the Renaissance master Titian in fierce bidding at an auction last week in Market Harborough in central England, Reuters reported.

It was sold after six minutes of fierce bidding, Christie's auction house said.

Multimillion-dollar bidding wars are suspenseful, sure, but the real drama at Christie's and Sotheby's lately has been behind the scenes: The top executive at each of the fierce rivals — the biggest auction houses in the world — is stepping down.