Sentence examples for successive bids from inspiring English sources

City has demonstrated commitment to Olympics with three successive bids.

At 68, and having lost two successive bids for the presidency, Mr Lien's political career is probably nearing its end.

The activist investor has made two successive bids, the latest of which is worth $80 a share.

This thought process would continue for each player as they made successive bids, and the price begins to escalate for seemingly unreasonable values for a one dollar bill.

South Africa, the 1995 hosts, have been trying to hold the tournament again since 2011 but failed in three successive bids.

"The 25th Frame" ends with more rapid-fire speech, this time from Mr. Moniaci (also the show's composer and musician) as an auctioneer babbling through the successive bids for "Peace of Mind" and finally the production we've been watching.

Each successive bid must overcall that is, be higher than any preceding bid.

In a third successive bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Blaine won on the fourth ballot, defeating the incumbent Republican president, Chester A. Arthur, who had succeeded to the presidency upon the death in 1881 of James A. Garfield.

The president stopped short of suggesting that this rejection, of the third successive bid made by Turkey, was in any way an implication that his developing country was less of a challenger than France.

After losing in four successive bidding opportunities, in 1984, Public Works employees introduced a series of innovations that resulted in costs well below those of private firms; and the Public Works department won a seven-year contract for the city's largest district.

L. 85 640 permitted issuance of an order of apportionment of cost for entire alteration based on the accepted bid for first part of alteration and an estimate of cost for remainder of work where bridge owner proceeds with alteration on a successive partial bid basis.