Sentence examples for winning a bid from inspiring English sources

Beyond winning a bid, proximity can help in a long-term relationship.

In some cases, clients were using his work to impress officials in hopes of winning a bid or acquiring land for a future project.

They invariably try to link their suggestions to grand or abstract ideas, such as being a "global city" or winning a bid to host the Olympics.

"I always remember the 10th of September being the first morning, virtually in a decade, I woke up without thinking of winning a bid or delivering a game.

In the 1980s, after winning a bid to lease the land from the city, they built a two-story beige brick structure.

Mr. Bliss and Ms. Brenner moved to their current site last year after winning a bid to rent a parcel on the outskirts of Portland controlled by a land trust seeking to preserve open space.

But when they fall in love with an Eichler home in Palo Alto, Calif., their focus shifts to winning a bidding war.

Google bought display ad provider DoubleClick in 2007 for $3.1 billion in cash, after apparently winning a bidding war with Microsoft.

The Chinese won a bid to explore the oil field late last year.

He and his partner won a bid this year to clear neglected lots in Cheyenne for $1,500.

South Africa also hopes to win a bid to host a giant radio telescope project known as the Square Kilometer Array.