Sentence examples for obvious bidder from inspiring English sources

However, the obvious bidder, the UK arm of Spanish bank Santander, is said to have pulled out.

And the Omnicom Group, an obvious bidder because of its weakness in this area, has been working to separate its media-buying activities from other operations, analysts said.

While not an obvious bidder, Edinburgh Woollen Mill – which sells knitwear to a more mature customer – has a history of turning around troubled retailing businesses.

As we noted a week and a half ago, these licensing agreements were precisely why Microsoft was the one obvious bidder not competing for the patents — they didn't think they had to.

Just one problem: The two most obvious bidders– Microsoft and Yahoo! –are kind of busy.

The most obvious bidders would have been private equity firms — Apollo and Sycamore Partners had been cited by the Wall Street Journal as potential acquirers.

Several ingredients are there: a decent estate of pubs, demoralised shareholders and a lack of obvious counter-bidders.

One obvious trophy stood out, and bidders went after it with a passion: Modigliani's portrait of a woman in the nude seated on a sofa and quizzically leering at the viewer with pursed lips.

"What are they bidding on?" There was obvious tension between some of the bidders as they countered each other..

Hence the real difficulty for the Spanish bidder - there are no obvious cost benefits with which to appease its investors.

It is obvious that the ultimate utility value of the bidder 1 is maximized when the cheat factor k equals 1, which indicates that no bidder has the incentive to cheat in the auction procedure because any cheating behavior will lead to a loss in its ultimate utility value.