Sentences with phrase «after earlier bids»

The board decided to bring the building, a 1930s schoolhouse at Illinois Highways 31 and 56, into a safe and «marketable» condition after earlier bids to substantially upgrade the building topped $ 1 million.

Not exact matches

Speculation about a potential run for office by McMullin, who launched a bid for the White House as an alternative for conservatives dissatisfied with President Donald Trump's candidacy, increased after Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R - Utah) announced earlier this week that he will not seek re-election in 2018.

Icahn, holding roughly 19 % of the company, launched the bid after talks to gain board representation broke down earlier this year.

Google is offering a 30 - day free trial and, in a bid to reward early adopters, if you sign up by June 30th, after the trial ends, All Access will cost $ 7.99 a month.

The group acquired Misfit in November of last year for $ 260 million in a bid to get the company back on track after slow earnings earlier in 2015.

The news comes after Hilton in 2016 launched Tru by Hilton, a line of hotels that are smaller and cheaper than Hilton's core hotel brand, in an earlier bid to attract millennials.

It comes after a Wall Street Journal report earlier this year indicated that Salesforce would have bid for fellow social network LinkedIn, which later reached a deal with Microsoft.

Earlier this month, the company confirmed it was considering a bid for rare disease drug maker Shire Plc (SHP.L) after Reuters reported on its interest.

The news came just one day after Starwood accepted a $ 13.2 billion cash bid from China's Anbang Insurance Group — over Marriott's earlier $ 12.2 billion offer.

Over the years, as it has expanded through acquisitions, the company has eyed the Reckitt Benckiser brands, and when the sought - after division was put up for sale earlier this year, it stepped up with an aggressive bid, McCormick's CEO said a day after announcing McCormick's biggest acquisition ever.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Food companies are under pressure to reduce costs after Kraft Heinz Co's unsuccessful bid for Unilever earlier this year showed that even the largest players could become targets.

After a spectacular freshman season, Clarett lost his eligibility for various NCAA rule violations and lost his lawsuit in a bid to enter the NFL draft a year early.

With these fresh reports coming to light, have City finally seen a bid accepted for Sterling after two failed attempts earlier in the summer?

Sterling's switch to the Etihad Stadium was completed at the beginning of last week as City finally signed the player from Premier League rivals Liverpool for a reported fee of # 49million [via Independent Sport] after seeing two bids rejected earlier in the summer.

It is only a matter of time before we start getting lots of Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with a summer transfer bid for Romelu Lukaku, after it was revealed by Sky Sports and other sporting websites that the Belgium international star has rejected the new contract that is being offered to him by his current club Everton, so I thought I would get in early and ask whether you Arsenal fans out there would like the Gunners to go for this powerful, prolific and Premier League proven striker?

There have been a lot more versions of the Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with a move for the Real Madrid and France striker Karim Benzema in the last week or so, with many of them from reliable media sources like The Telegraph, claiming that the Gunners were going back with an improved offer of around # 35 million for the centre forward after having an earlier bid turned down.

Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri is considering tabling a bid for Liverpool target Virgil Van Dijk in the quest to fill the void left by centre - back Leonardo Bonucci after he left for AC Milan earlier this summer.

The Telegraph also claim that the Blues are considering another bid for Leicester midfielder Drinkwater, as they plan to table a figure between # 25m - # 30m after previously having a # 15m bid rejected earlier this summer.

Ligue 1 side will reprise their interest in Thievy after rejected their initial bid earlier this month

After failing with bids for Thiago Alcantara and Cesc Fabregas earlier in the window, United also failed with a deadline - day bid for Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera.

Kongolo looked to release compatriot van La Parra down his native left early on in a bid to catch the hosts off guard, and after Rajiv managed to draw a foul from American DeAndre Yedlin, nothing came of the resulting free - kick despite a hectic goal - mouth scramble.

The bid race began earlier this year after South African city Durban lost the right to host the event.

Real Madrid took on Osasuna in the Spanish La Liga game on Saturday night in a bid to return back to top of the table after Barcelona earlier overtook them thanks to their 6 - 0 win against Alaves.

The bid in order to get things started after Manchester City had failed to name a price for the player following early inquiries.

The state budget includes no significant new controls or oversight on how the Cuomo administration spends money on economic development projects, and that troubles many lawmakers after federal prosecutors accused eight men of bid - rigging schemes in earlier development projects.

Weiner kept to the sidelines of politics after his resignation, but rumors began circulating in early 2013 that he was seriously considering a mayoral bid.

One day earlier, Azrack had bidden them good morning in the afternoon — after jurors had waited hours to be called into the courtroom.

He won the fight for the Bronx / Westchester Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who departed to join the Cuomo administration earlier this year after losing a bid for Mount Vernon mayor in 2015.

Michael Simanowitz, the longtime chief of staff to retired Queens Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn, wasted no time in formally announcing his special election bid for her seat in the 27th AD after receiving the nod from his fellow Democrats earlier today.

But, as you'll recall, Levy dropped his gubernatorial bid early this summer after he was was out - maneuvered by former Rep. Rick Lazio and failed to get onto the ballot at the state GOP convention.

One man was arrested in the early hours of the morning after he glued himself to the entrance of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, near Heathrow, in a frantic bid to stop the deportation.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

Emanuel left his position as White House chief of staff to launch a bid for Chicago mayor after the current mayor, Richard Daley, announced his retirement earlier this year.

He made an eleventh - hour decision last summer to seek re-election, dropping an earlier bid for the Senate after GOP Sen. Marco Rubio reversed course and announced he'd run again.

Two days after the emergency landing, the state Comptroller's Office gave the state police permission to buy a $ 12.5 million helicopter for the governor without competitive bidding, a request it had rejected less than two months earlier.

Earlier this year, France arranged for state - controlled firm Gaz de France to take over Suez, after it became a target for Italian utilities group Entel, and Luxembourg has been accused of blocking a bid approach for Arcelor from Netherlands - based Mittal Steel.

After a bid from the nation's largest cable provider, Comcast, to purchase Time Warner Cable was dropped earlier this year, Charter Communications made an offer to buy the company, a merger that is now pending review by federal regulators.

Mark - Viverito was one of the earliest supporters of de Blasio's mayoral bid in 2013, and he put immense pressure on Council members to support her for speaker after the election.

«My only agenda item was to bring a strong, better New York for our children,» said Lazio, who, a decade after losing the U.S. Senate race to Hillary Clinton for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's seat, early last year launched a bid for governor.

A new bidding process was opened earlier this year by the commission at the urging of Cuomo after no Binghamton - area projects were selected by the panel.

After Republican Bob Ghosio won in his bid for Town Board earlier this month, his seat on the town's Board of Trustees will become vacant.

According to a new Reuters / Ipsos poll released Thursday, Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio holds a 40 to 26 percent lead among likely voters over Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running as an independent after abandoning his bid for the Republican Party's nomination earlier this year.

After a failed bid for a Family Court seat, Sedita was elected a State Supreme Court justice and served from 1976 through the early 1990s.

I bumped into the assemblyman (who has his brother's old seat — they switched after David lost a NYC comptroller bid in 2009) in the chamber earlier today, and he told me he would definitely take a look at the race, but wouldn't fight his sibling for it.

Cole replaces Representative Jack Kingston (R — GA), who is retiring after losing a bid earlier this year for his party's nomination for a U.S. Senate seat.

Some districts paid for their own ACT testing after that, and in early 2016, the College Board won a bid to administer its SAT college entrance exam to public school juniors in Illinois.

After promising to earlier this year, Smart finally bids farewell to gas engines for North America.

Betting on the prize in the U.K. had to be closed early after they got a flood of bids on Tom McCarthy's C, but apparently Jacobson's novel exploring «what it means to be Jewish today in the UK» took the prize in a 3 - 2 vote.

Apple Loses Patent Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab in Munich Court Apple failed to get a ban on sales of the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 N (a variant of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 designed after Apple won an injuction on the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 in 2011) in a Munich Court earlier this week.