Sentence examples for taking the bid from inspiring English sources

In the room, a small man, Jimmy Luu, got applause for taking the bid to $32,000.

Alltel officials said that even if CenturyTel formally rejected their offer, they would continue to pursue a takeover by taking the bid directly to shareholders.

Carr said he believed GM was taking the bid seriously, but it would definitely require subsidies from the existing government scheme.

Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings, which is trying to fend off an unsolicited takeover offer from the Mesa Air Group, sued in federal court yesterday to stop Mesa from taking the bid directly to shareholders.

The letter – complete with model train – landed on the desk of Mark Reach, a civil servant in the Department for Transport, who took the trouble to send a charming reply on Christmas Eve, full of recommendations for taking the bid forward.

Now, Jeff Bezos is taking the bidding war into the Internet Age with this highly publicized contest for Amazon's next headquarters.

The Sun took the bid".

But SABMiller persisted and took the bid directly to shareholders in a hostile play.

Take the bid specs that Georgia recently issued for broadcloth, explicitly asking for "domestic goods," Ms. Corey noted.

But pricing in an additional $4 billion — theoretically covering a further wasted premium that could take the bid price as high as $180 a share — seems excessive.

Moreover, when Kinder started suggesting it might take the bid hostile, Goldman stopped providing advice to El Paso on the sale except for updating some numbers on the potential of a spinoff.