But you know what happens to bids in negotiations: They get whittled away, the terms get changed, and, sometimes, the whole negotiation breaks down
under the force of an ultimatum from one of the parties involved.
On the tiny island of Barbuda — where the hurricane first made landfall — cell towers snapped
under the force of 185 - mile per hour winds, cutting off communication.
The critics and lovers of art who everlastingly appeal to Beauty and to the Spirit are always the first ones to reject a T. S. Eliot or a Faulkner, a Picasso or a Stravinsky; only much later,
under the force of overwhelming evidence, to give them a grudging approval.
But no luck - they all crumbled
under the force of the knife.
Because the chocolate layer was somewhat separating from the cookie layer
under the force of the knife and even when I tried to eat those unfortunate, but tasty, looking pieces.
They took the dog bone - shaped tissues to the lab of Christian Franck, assistant professor of engineering, and together made precise measurements of the tissue strength
under the force of being pulled apart.
Boosted by a rocket engine, a ballistic missile sails into space before releasing a warhead that plummets to its target
under the force of gravity.
This gas gives rise to newborn stars — it gradually collapses
under the force of its own gravity until it is sufficiently compressed to form a protostar — the precursor to a star.
A team of researchers has fabricated a micron - scale device that deforms significantly
under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light - actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.
In the simulation, cosmic gas slowly coalesced
under the force of gravity and eventually formed the first stars.
In the simulation, clouds of gas left over from the Big Bang slowly coalesced
under the force of gravity, and eventually formed the first stars.
Another benefit of quads contraction is that they help you to resist flexing your knees
under the force of gravity that tends to pull them down.
Snappy dialogue and spiffy performances aside, Barry Sonnenfeld's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's «Get Shorty» almost buckles
under the force of its own incomprehensible plotting and vapidity.
Your head was leaning forward
under the force of braking but now it's being pulled to the left.
Having by and large crumbled
under the force of a recent storm, Malibu's roads are a glorious mess, but the chassis is composed, the suspension supple despite the kinetic challenge of 21 - inch - wheels.
It was windy that day, and I could feel the vehicle pulling left or right
under the force of the gusts as I drove down the Overseas highway.
The garments were under attack, jerking and flapping
under the force of the water jet like hanging targets in a shooting gallery.
«Votan and Human cities alike lay crumbling
under the force of terraforming weaponry.
One such tribe scatters
under the force of opposing tribes leaving their land and their legacy behind.
Under the force of gravity, the black paint (which he sometimes replaces with mars violet or orange - brown) begins to flow into the white undercoat.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Phillip Chen is descended from generations of sojourners and immigrants who labored
under the force of anti-Chinese and Chinese Exclusion Act culture in the United States — the son of a «paper son» and «war bride» challenged by processes of legalization and marginalization.
Not exact matches
Typically they prevent people from joining together to bring class - action lawsuits that can
force companies to change their practices
under the threat
of big monetary damages.
ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array
of forces for control
of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city
under the militant group's control.
The women point out in the letter that
forced arbitration clauses are now
under attack as part
of the #MeToo movement.
As part
of his postdoc program, he examined Air
Force pilots, Navy SEALs, and deep - sea divers, analyzing how they make decisions
under pressure.
Google said it plans to close its news - linking service in Spain in response to legislation
under which publishers will soon be able to
force Internet sites to pay for re-publishing headlines or snippets
of news.
Verizon Communications Inc. is the clear favorite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo Inc's core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company's efforts to become a
force in Internet content have gone relatively well
under the leadership
of AOL Inc Chief Executive Tim Armstrong.
Conflict diamonds are defined as those which originate from areas
under the control
of forces in opposition to elected and internationally - recognised governments.
Force 47 has worked pro-actively against distorted information, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy head
of the general politics department
under the Vietnam People's Military.
The handover plan was announced after Euphrates Shield
forces attacked several villages
under SDF control east
of the town
of Al - Bab last week.
The search is
under way for the next group
of the most ambitious, innovative private companies transforming the economy and
forcing the public giants to rethink the way they do business.
«
Under - emphasis
of these (structural) policies relative to macroeconomic, trade and financial stability policies is a key reason for many governments» failure in recent decades to mobilize a more effective response to widening inequality and stagnating median income as technological change and globalization have gathered
force,» the report said.
One
of the aircraft
under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air
force, and the US has ordered six more
of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.
Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions
under the Combined
Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety
of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task
Force.
Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron promised to restore cuts to the size
of Britain's armed
forces seen
under Labour.
But
under the surface, the leaders
of the market have been churning, with the dominant
forces in the benchmark S&P 500 giving way to lesser - loved areas.
Republican Senator John Hoeven
of North Dakota, who co-sponsored the Keystone bill with Landrieu, has pledged to keep trying to
force approval
of the project that the administration has kept
under review for more than six years.
Minshew explains that the company didn't need the funding, which is a great way to say «I've got this
under control, but when an investor
of strong caliber and aligned values showed interest, it made sense to join
forces.»
As a vice presidential nominee during Senator Bob Dole's unsuccessful run for president in 1996, Kemp had served in a sub-cabinet position
under George H.W. Bush as chairman
of the Economic Empowerment Task
Force.
Under its current wording, it would ascribe all oil produced from Canada's oilsands a greenhouse gas rating
of 107 grams
of carbon dioxide per megajoule and thus
force its importers to pay for carbon offsets.
Russia's banking sector has been
under intense scrutiny since the central bank was
forced to step in to save two
of the country's private lenders earlier this year.
«One thing I think he wanted to make very clear is that the Bank
of Canada,
under his stewardship, will continue to allow the Canadian dollar to be driven by market
forces,» Burleton added.
Fair enough, but
under the new EU net neutrality laws (which aren't yet in
force), the only kind
of outright traffic shaping that will be allowed will be for highly specialized services — think dedicated packages for Internet TV or cars or medical applications.
PREPA has been hampered by years
of under - investment, frequent turnover in management and inefficient collections that
forced it to go deeply into debt.
UnitedHealth Group remains the largest insurer by membership, yet through acquisitions it has built a data analytics and pharmacy benefits business
under its Optum division that is the driving
force of its growth.
Retrieving the dead is itself a potentially lethal endeavor: Last week, a member
of the Civil Defence
Force was killed when a bomb buried
under the ruins
of a home exploded as he tried to free bodies trapped there.
The second phase could pull back as far as the 1990s conflict in Chechnya, or even the
forced relocation
of Chechens (including Tsarnaev's grandfather)
under Josef Stalin in the 1940s.
Alankrita Shrivastava is the
force behind the most talked about film
of 2017, Lipstick
Under My Burkha
In 2012, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for electing leaders with pending criminal charges,
forcing Indian athletes to compete at the Sochi Winter Games
under the IOC flag instead
of the Indian banner.
On the other hand, such strikes, he said, also act as a deterrent to Hezbollah, whose missile capabilities could mean that the air
force and the rest
of the Israeli military will fight any future Lebanon war with their own bases
under attack.