Sentence examples for lesser bid from inspiring English sources

In the summer of 2009 summer, Premier League side Wigan failed with two £4.5m bids, while a lesser bid from Bolton Wanderers was also rejected.

The government's decision to prosecute Private Manning on that charge in a leak case was unusual, and prosecutors continued to pursue it even after Private Manning pleaded guilty to some of the lesser charges in a bid for leniency.

It must drive rival broadcasters nuts, this anomaly that terrestrial ring-fencing enables the BBC to cling to the most valuable rights on the market when it lacks the funds – and often, it must be said, the interest – to bid for lesser events.

The auction item is usually of lesser value, or a Bid Pack, but there are fewer bidders and no "whales" to compete against.

Judge Edward Korman of United States District Court sentenced the defendant, Thomas Reynolds, 31, after the family of the victim, Judith Shemtov, asked the judge to reject his bid for a lesser term.

Maybe play lesser a week.

They will have their pick of ideas and won't have to enter bidding wars with lesser firms.

Conversely, the advertisers with the highest click through rates will now be in a position to buy up keywords below the point where lesser advertisers even hit their minimum bid.

MCI walked away from Qwest's sweetened $8.9 billion bid in favor of Verizon Communications ' lesser offer of $7.5 billion.

Thus, high levels of cleaved caspase-8 and, to a lesser extent, low levels of full-length Bid could potentially be used as predictors of response to ABT-737 and Mcl-1 knockdown.

Kellogg was interested in Pringles last year, but it felt hard-pressed to compete with the lesser tax bill that would accompany Diamond's bid, Mr. Bryant of Kellogg said in an interview.