Sentence examples for opened bidding from inspiring English sources

Tobias meyer, the evening's auctioneer opened bidding at $15 million, but the sea of more than 1,000 faces stared blankly as the room went dead.

Last October, the bureau opened bidding to anyone who wanted the right to obtain a thirty-year lease and submit building plans for a solar project on land in Colorado's San Luis Valley, close to the New Mexico border.

When a seminal Warhol — one of the artist's first silk-screen paintings — came on the block at Sotheby's auction of contemporary art on Wednesday night, the auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, opened bidding at $6 million and was stunned when a bidder instantly doubled it.

In an arm's-length auction, the board couldn't negotiate with the Bretts until it opened bidding.

When Procter & Gamble opened bidding to supply Crest tubes in its biggest market, Essel Propack Chief Executive Cyrus Bagwadia knew it was a long shot.

On Thursday, the Pentagon opened bidding for a huge cloud computing contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion.

At 11 20, I eagerly held up my paddle when Mr. Clarke opened bids on my Buddha lamp.

Now bare-chested, Johnny opened bids for a cummerbund owned by the late John Young.

This week, Lazards, an investment bank, opened bids for Grandi Magazzini and UPIM, La Rinascente's department-store chains.

Afghanistan opened bids Tuesday on billions of dollars worth of copper and gold deposits in four areas of the country that, together, equal roughly half the Grand Canyon.

Libya then ended its WMD program, announced economic reforms to its bastardized socialist system and opened bids to multinational companies on leases to its oil fields.