Sentence examples for swiftly bid from inspiring English sources

At a recent fundraiser for Tipping Point, an anti-poverty charity in San Francisco, guests swiftly bid up the price for a package of Super Bowl tickets in increments of $100,000.

Transatlantic swiftly rejected the bid, calling it too low.

Novell's board swiftly rejected the bid as "inadequate" and the matter was apparently shelved.

But Human Genome swiftly rejected the bid as insufficient and instead put itself up for sale, inviting GlaxoSmithKline to participate in the auction process.

The alliance between Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline is the latest example, followed swiftly by the AstraZeneca bid for Pfizer.

Cadbury swiftly rejects the "derisory" bid, which is now worth £9.8bn because Kraft's shares have dropped in value since August.

But no Senate minority would enjoy being on the short side of a purely majoritarian chamber, watching idly – like a House of Representatives minority does now – as the majority swiftly does its own bidding on any and all pieces of legislation.

Two of its biggest shareholders, Edinburgh-based Standard Life and US hedge fund Paulson & Co – which each hold a stake of about 7% – have urged the company to talk to McCormick, after it swiftly rejected two earlier bids of 60p and 52p.

"With future Ministry of Justice contracts up for grabs, including more than £600m of probation contracts, the government must act swiftly and bar G4S from bidding for any more until the SFO has concluded its investigation.

It was swiftly followed by a potential $22 billion bid for Virgin Media, a British cable-television company, and the $26 billion purchase of Hilton Hotels.Even after those deals, the private-equity titans have plenty of firepower left.

The son of the feudal and spiritual leader of Afghanistan's Ismaili sect, an offshoot of the Shiite branch of Islam, he is no battle-hardened warlord and his bid for more power has been swiftly crushed.