Sentence examples for thwarted bid from inspiring English sources

Such a squall of anxiety hasn't been seen in this city since its thwarted bid for the 2016 Olympic Games.

He supported Frederick Chiluba's thwarted bid in 2001 to alter the constitution so he could serve a third term as president.

A planned hourly London-Glasgow service is about to start, and McLoughlin said he hoped to see Virgin start running direct services to Shrewsbury and Blackpool – one pledge in FirstGroup's thwarted bid – by the end of 2013.

His thwarted bid to reconquer the French presidency and avenge his 2012 defeat by the Socialist François Hollande had been driven by a lifelong addiction to elections and a conviction that he could read the public mood.

Part of the magazine's powerful allure -- which compelled people like Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax Films; Nelson Peltz, the billionaire financier; and the advertising executive Donny Deutsch, to join Mr. Zuckerman in the thwarted bid -- comes from its history.

Li's thwarted bid to take PCCW private has been another dramatic chapter in his long love-hate affair with PCCW.

Philadelphians thwarted the bid with an alternative offer that kept the painting in that city.

With Bernie Ecclestone, the F1 kingpin, he has inspired fear and respect in equal measure, mostly notably, perhaps, in the 2005 F1 civil war, when he successfully thwarted a bid by the teams to take over the running of the sport.

Christopher Hohn, managing partner of TCI, is not satisfied at merely thwarting the bid for the LSE.

Mr. Sarkozy says it was all a smear campaign to thwart his bid to be elected president in 2007.

Bruce had been the only Cincinnati base runner in Game 1, drawing a walk off Halladay to thwart his bid for perfection.