Sentence examples for weak bid from inspiring English sources

He recommended Mr. Wirthlin to Reagan, who had been elected governor of California in 1966 and had made a weak bid for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.

This is not a weak bid in his system – it shows about 10-15 points and an unbalanced hand with at least five hearts.

The government's hold was precarious, however, because the communist Eighteenth Army Group and the New Fourth Army had regrouped in northern China, abandoning areas south of the Yangtze after a weak bid to take Shanghai.

This was a strong game invitation, since there are no weak bids over weak bids, but North had nothing to say.

But North, presumably thinking that she could not have better trumps for her weak bidding, jumped to seven clubs.

They then made very weak bids in the auction, leaving the bonds to insurance companies and pension funds that need them for investing and money management purposes.

His insistence on representing ugly extremes (incest, rape, murder) can be especially wearisome, coming across as weak bids to shock his audience (épater la bourgeoisie, as the French poets once said), which, already expecting (perhaps eagerly) a Gaspar Noé freakout, is unlikely to have its world genuinely rocked.

Despite Sarajevo being the only previous host city to bid, it was largely regarded as the weakest bid, primarily due to its lack of infrastructure after the war.

His titles include "Five Card Major," "Negative Doubles," "Tactical Bidding," "Weak Two Bids" and "Winning Swiss Team Tactics".

Was this a skewed weak two bid from an American player?

He knew that his opponents had limited values, since East had not opened the bidding, and West had a weak two-bid, so North was marked with strength.