Sentence examples for first bid at from inspiring English sources

In its first bid at national politics, Mr. Grillo's anti-establishment party took a quarter of the votes in the elections last month, a success that was read as a sign of Italians' growing frustration with traditional parties.

Written in 1974, and given only a short run in New York in 1976, "Children" was Mr. Gurney's first bid at a full-length traditional play, and was partly based on a John Cheever short story, "Goodbye, My Brother".

Bidding on an 18th-century Philadelphia Chippendale wing chair at Sotheby's in 1986, he made the first bid at $400,000, and kept hoisting his paddle high while imperceptible signals from competitors around the room (an earlobe tug, a crossing of arms) drove the sale price to $1.1 million, then a record for American furniture, according to an account in The New York Times.

The Act is seen by experts as an aggressive first bid at deregulation by Trump, which cannot pass the Senate.

Bids start at £50, with a second bid at £75, a third at £100 and a fourth bid at £150.

The agreement, reached in time for the state's second bid at $700 million in federal education grants, would scrap the current system whereby teachers were rated simply satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

This was Mr. Uliassi's second bid at an around-the-world trip and was far more successful than the first, which ended shortly after launching when the balloon ruptured.

Now 27 years old and in his second year with the Heat, the self-proclaimed "King James" has emerged as the dominant player in the Finals in his third bid at winning an NBA ring.

A solar-powered plane is making its second bid at a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.

Kraft's first bid came at a 31 percent premium.

Front pads, rear pads, rear rotors: the first bid comes in at $1,234, the second at $760.