Sentence examples for sensible bid from inspiring English sources

And his sensible bid to loosen up the sclerotic planning regime might be thwarted by nervous local councils.Mr Osborne's basic message on growth, however, was that he wants to make Britain a better place to do business.

And if it turns into a genuinely hostile bid the first for a big bank the offer would also signal that Japan's stockmarket is finally turning into a market for corporate control.Whether it is a sensible bid is another matter.

"The method of sale through sealed tenders makes it almost impossible for us to decide what is a sensible bid.

Really, the decision is a bit of a game-changer for the other bidders because, with Ticketus in place, few, if any, of them would have put forward a sensible bid because of the loss of the season-ticket revenue.

Kresa said in an interview that Northrop Grumman also will never overpay in a merger, and that GM got his company's most sensible bid.

As the auction was coming to an end, Mr. Gorvy called the bidding "sensible," adding that "the top collectors around the world were present and bidding for things that they could see were once-in-a-lifetime purchases.

But the sensible estimates encouraged bidding.

So the sensible strategy is to bid for both.

An opening four-bid is normally based on a seven- or eight-card suit, but South had one of the rare hands on which the bid is sensible with a six-card suit.

At least one Deutsche Börse shareholder is demanding a meeting to vote on whether a takeover bid is even sensible.

While sensible, the new dial-up bid, which was reported by The Wall Street Journal, is awfully outdated, considering that outfits like United Online, and the two companies it absorbed, NetZero and Juno, have been offering cheap Web access for years and eating at least some of America Online's lunch in the process.