Sentence examples for in a bid to construct from inspiring English sources

Later dubbed "the motorway that China couldn't build," in 2009 the Chinese company COVEC (China Overseas Engineering Group) put in a bid to construct the A2 highway that was half the price as the Polish government's budget for the project.

Frank J. Sciame, a builder who had lost a bid to construct the memorial, was given the task of streamlining the memorial in a way that would cut costs and appease family critics both.

And his hard-charging son was in the middle of an audacious and ultimately unsuccessful bid to construct a $125 million convention center in the nation's capital.

Making an Exception That spring of 2005, as the Schaghticokes went down to defeat in the East, another tribe in the West squared off against Mr. McCain with its bid to construct a gambling emporium in California.

The corps issued a notice to contractors Friday saying it might soon accept bids to construct a 3-mile section of border wall in south Texas, with an estimated cost of anywhere from $25 million to $100 million — if the corps gets the money.

Tender notices will soon be issued, to allow interested companies to begin bidding to construct what is intended to be an international centre of design.

Six companies, based in Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi and Maryland, won contracts to build a prototype with concrete or "alternate materials". Two of the companies won bids to construct both versions.

In a bid to strengthen its claims, China has constructed concrete installations on some underwater formations, complete with basketballs and helipads.

Conservationists will begin constructing a series of treetop bridges later this year in a bid to save a critically-endangered species of gibbon.

Tesla has spent more than a year constructing supercharger stations along the east and west coasts in a bid to give their electric cars the juice to complete your average languorous summer road trip.

The IoD is constructing the index after a string of scandals, ranging from the banking crisis in 2008 to the accounting problems at Tesco, in a bid to predict the next reputational hit to the UK's biggest companies.