Sentence examples for fierce bid from inspiring English sources

But, as always, Winterbottom makes a fierce bid to grip the texture of his settings and to rub his characters the wrong way; none of them amount to much, but you're oddly desperate to know what befalls them... View Article Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993.

After a fierce bidding war, the American firm snatched the prize on May 12th for $7.3 billion.

Analysts expect a fierce bidding war for Orange, which is expected to cost about $50 billion.

Analysts expect a fierce bidding war for Orange, which is expected to sell for about $50 billion.

Houses are also often selling for more than the asking price -- sometimes after fierce bidding wars.

Rishe said fierce bidding and the escalating value of TV rights had driven up the price.

Aztar, which owns the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City, was sold to Columbia Sussex after a long and fierce bidding war.

Channel 4 won the film rights after a fierce bidding war last summer against Eric Fellner's Working Title.

No wonder there was a "fierce bidding war by some of Britain's largest publishers" over her very first book.

Last summer, after a fierce bidding war, he agreed to sell Misys to a US private equity house for £1.27bn.

A fierce bidding war between Mumbai Indians and Hyderabad Sunrisers saw Maxwell picked up by Mumbai for $1 million - the highest bid of any player in the auction.