Barack Obama "threatened" the Palestinian president to withdraw a bid for recognition of Palestine at the UN.
[C2.] Carnival Withdraws Bid for Fairfield Carnival, the cruise ship operator, withdrew a bid of $775 million to acquire Fairfield Communities, which managed vacation time-share properties.
In 2005 CNOOC, a Chinese oil firm, withdrew a bid for Unocal, a Californian producer, after American politicians kicked up a stink.
Qantas Airways said it would withdraw a bid for the regional carrier Hazelton Airlines after Australia's competition regulator rejected its revised bid.
Earlier this year, Mr. Kinkade, who owns 37percentt of the company's stock, withdrew a bid to take over the rest because he could not get financing.
In the aftermath of the hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch closed the News of the World and was forced to withdraw a bid to acquire the sixty-one per cent of BSkyB that he did not already own.
Mount Sinai Medical Center, which recently withdrew a bid to partner with St . Vincents to keep its acute care hospital open, has indicated some interest, according to an official involved in the restructuring efforts who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to comment.
When she and her husband withdrew a bid on a home in a tony Northwest Washington neighborhood, some speculated that the house -- which sits on the site of the former Rockefeller estate -- had failed to meet the additional requirements of the Secret Service, a detail of which accompanied her on her tour.
Chainrai withdrew a bid to buy the League One club on Wednesday.
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, based in Tooting, south London, withdrew a bid to merge with St Helier and Sutton in January because of "financial challenges".
