Sentence examples for make a last bid from inspiring English sources
He could start a game or two and make a last bid to participate in the playoffs, at the end of his sixth and perhaps final year with the Yankees.
A gentleman crashed into me on his way to make a last bid, while others avoided the fray.
A fourth that President Yang Shangkun, at the age of 81, was making a last bid to succeed the decrepit Mr Deng.All or none may be true, but all raised tensions in the capital.
He played in all but two of the Chiefs' games and is already on Wales's radar, always assuming England do not make a last-gasp bid to lure the Yorkshireman back into the fold.
Nixon replied that the two were "great, fine Americans" and that he would try to save them.He fired Mr. Dean and accepted the resignations of Mr. Haldeman and Mr. Ehrlichman on April 30.On the eve of Nixon's own resignation on Aug. 9, 1974, Mr. Haldeman wanted to make a last-ditch bid for a presidential pardon.Mr.
There was also speculation that Laverty's most recent employers, the Aprilia World Superbike squad, would make a last-ditch bid to run him in their team, alongside Marco Melandri and Sylvain Guintoli.
Others say it was just Bush making a last-minute bid to rescue a tarnished-looking legacy.
On the eve of Nixon's own resignation on Aug. 9, 1974, Mr. Haldeman wanted to make made a last-ditch bid for a presidential pardon.
When a black Board of Education member, Irving S. Hamer Jr., made a last-minute bid for the chancellor's job, the black political community was all but silent.
Earlier this month Dotcom made a last-ditch bid to the court of appeal to have the extradition hearing put off again, but it failed.
