Sentence examples for makes bid for from inspiring English sources

[C3.] Placer Dome Makes Bid for Rival Placer Dome has made a $1.1 billion hostile takeover bid for AurionGold of Australia, a partner in several important joint ventures.

[Page C4.] Yahoo Makes Bid for HotJobs.Com Trying to bolster its online recruiting business, Yahoo made an unsolicited bid to buy HotJobs.com, the Internet's second-largest career site, for $436 million in cash and stock.

PAGE B1 Miami Makes Bid for No. 1 By beating Florida, 37-20, in the Sugar Bowl last night, Miami hopes for a share of the national college football championship if Oklahoma loses to Florida State in tonight's Orange Bowl.

Business, technology and wealth news: Source: Cingular Makes Bid For AT&T Wireless.

The North Fork Bancorp and the FleetBoston Financial Corporation had been expected to make bids for E.A.B.

The Montenegro star has attracted interest from Inter before while Juventus have also made bids for Jovetic in the past.

Both the opposition and the ruling party are expected to make bids for him as their candidate.

There are rumors going around about SBC Communications or BellSouth looking at or making bids for Sprint or WorldCom.

For 2009-12, thavehave stumped up $3.91 billion for television rights, up from $2.57 billion for 2005-08.Such huge fees make bidding for the rings highly risky.

The Catalans made bids for independence in the 17th and 18th centuries, and got a good measure of it, three times, in the 20th century.

Twice, in 1998 on Real Quiet and 2008 on Big Brown, he was the center of attention aboard horses making bids for the Triple Crown.