Sentence examples for staged an auction from inspiring English sources
He flouted art world custom in 2008 when he bypassed dealers and staged an auction of 223 pieces of his own work at Sotheby's in London that September.
In the case of Colonial Bank, a $25 billion Southeastern regional lender that failed in August, the F.D.I.C. staged an auction just over a week after the disclosure of fraud involving its biggest borrower.
In 2013, Migliorini staged an auction herself, but decided to find love through a proposed reality series, "There's Something About Catarina".
BY DECIDING to stage an auction in order to help establish the price for its shares, Google has caused a stir.
Sure enough, on the day At Home filed for Chapter 11, AT&T unveiled a deal to buy the company's assets for $307 million–without staging an auction that might have lured a higher bidder.
For example, in the U.K., General Electric staged an online auction process to select legal representation.
Members of Oxon Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) staged a mock auction in the Cornmarket to raise awareness of the proposed NHS sell offs.
The idea of Venice sinking has long captured the imagination and has featured in countless artistic works, including theatre director Robert Lepage's 1990 production of Tectonic Plates, during which he famously flooded the stage of the National Theatre to stage an art auction in which punters were bidding on famous paintings while wading knee deep in water.
On 14 October, a group of Kurdish activists staged a 'sex slave' auction to highlight Islamic State's alleged actions.
The complications can be seen in the introduction of slavery into what had been a lily-white representation of Colonial Williamsburg -- by staging a slave auction.
From Dec. 2 to 16, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs will stage a charity auction on eBay that will feature hotel accommodations and theater tickets.
