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

In a bid to transform White Plains as an entertainment magnet, last week the city's Common Council passed a proposal to convert the concrete fountain and plaza at the corner of Main Street and Mamaroneck Avenues into a grassy park with a fountain that will spew 25-foot jets of water to synchronized music.

Countrywide – which Bank of America snapped up for $4bn in early 2008 in a bid to transform itself into the country's largest lender and mortgage servicer – was so eager to make loans that it used dodgy collateral, vague signatures and other sketchy methods, according to documents.

Messaging app Tango has made further layoffs as new CEO Eric Setton continues to orchestrate changes in a bid to transform the struggling company's fortunes.

But celebrity and Michelin-star chefs have also been flocking to the terminal in a bid to transform airport-side dining; fantastic meals can be eaten while you wait to board.

Via the Governor's Run storyline, players build new structures including concert arenas, universities, and even airports, in a bid to transform their cities into capitals, and gain citizens' votes to win the election.

The company made an offer last month to buy solar energy firm SolarCity in a bid to transform the Model S maker into the world's first vertically integrated green energy giant.

It was a bit too journalistic for them, I suspect, and they preferred to describe their plans as a bid to transform Dumfries into a "learning town".

The immediate upshot was a victory for Ms Le Pen in her bid to transform a far-right, fringe protest movement into a mainstream party ready to govern.

EnCap Golf Holdings, a developer that has faltered in its bid to transform garbage dumps in the Meadowlands into homes and an entertainment district, has been fined $1.054 million for allowing methane gas to escape from one of its construction sites, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said yesterday.

In December, oma's bid to transform Les Halles, the shopping arcades in Paris, using colored-glass towers shaped like perfume bottles, was rejected in favor of a meek French plan.

As movie marketing campaigns go it is not quite up there with Godzilla's (1998 version) crushed cars in central London, The Simpsons Movie's bid to transform thousands of local convenience stores into Apu's Kwik-E-Mart, or Chronicle's flying-people-shaped drones.