Sentence examples for obvious bid from inspiring English sources

The obvious bid is usually the right one, and the obvious lead is usually the one that defeats the contract.

Hers were falling apart so Kanye West gave her five more, in an obvious bid to make this list every single week.

MSNBC had hired Mr. Savage in March as part of an obvious bid to steal some thunder from the Fox News Channel.

"Or I read there's no jokes and it's just about cleverness of structure and then I read a criticism of the last series that it was an obvious bid for mainstream acceptance by being full of jokes.

Mr. Khrushchev said that under present conditions there are many problems that cannot be handled through diplomatic channels but must be discussed by heads of government, an obvious bid for another summit conference.

In an obvious bid for the Ron Paul media conspiracy vote, Sen. Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign dumped the traveling press corps exactly where many voters believe they belong today — in the men's room of the Burger Activity Center.

Without making the obvious bids for topical relevance, the director, Gregory Doran, has shaped Shakespeare's tale of regicide and its discontents into a harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century.

She starts – too obvious a bid for sympathy, this – by regaling us with stories of bad gigs gone by.

Both had tenacious clients who took obvious pleasure bidding in unconventional increments — at one moment $100,000, at another $250,000 — so that the salesroom booed and hissed, applauded and laughed as Christopher Burge, the evening's auctioneer, deftly jollied the two along (although at times he showed his impatience).

The obvious move was to bid five hearts in an attempt to push the opposition into five spades.

It is quite obvious that Microsoft's bid of $33 per share is a superior alternative to Yahoo's prospects on a standalone basis.