Sentences with phrase «as bids for»

The Continental Concept being unveiled at this week's New York auto show reveals the brand's shift in styling direction as it strives to triple sales in five years, emphasizing Lincoln's focus on interior serenity and comfort as it bids for renewed relevance in the luxury market.

Current Unite boss Red Len «obsessed with Westminster» says Gerard Coyne as he bids for leadership

One study found that preschoolers can ask 75 questions per hour, not as bids for attention but to «extract» information from the adults around them.

Mark Cavendish is hell - bent on delivering the goods in the omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships as he bids for the one thing missing from his illustrious CV — an Olympic medal.

The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

The company is «fully committed» to its strategy as an independent company, as well as its bid for Perrigo, he said.

Chairman Daniel Levy has poured vast sums into his White Hart Lane squad in recent transfer windows and may deem it time for more cost effective options such as a bid for Delph.

After narrowly avoiding relegation from this league last season, our team have responded in the best possible way and will now look forward to the promotional play - offs next term as they bid for a place in the BUCS Prem!

Manchester City are reportedly ready to break the world transfer record for a defender as they bid for Southampton ace Virgil van Dijk.

With the World Cup fast approaching ITV Sport takes a look at the kits each team will be wearing in Russia as they all bid for glory on the world stage.

On their return, we have eight matches remaining as we bid for a place in the top four of the Premier League and an FA Cup semi-final date against Manchester United over the weekend of 21 - 22 April.

Potential sites in New York include Queens and Brooklyn, as well as a bid for the Hudson Valley, the Albany area, Syracuse and the western New York corridor between Buffalo and Rochester.

Rivals seem determined to frame the disgraced pols» campaigns as a bid for the forgiveness of women.

Apple has been very active this month in adding to its line - up of original programming, picking up the Octavia Spencer - headlined Are You Sleeping and the Steven Knight - created sci - fi series See, as well as bidding for J.J. Abrams» as - yet - unrevealed new TV project.

At any rate, this is clear proof that SoFi is still growing as a major fintech, financial resource, and lending company, despite a recent setback such as the bid for an industrial loan charter.

Its growth potential, as well as its bid for GM make the company's stock attractive.

As far as the bidding for Starwood goes, the timeshare portion is pretty irrelevant as both bidding parties are happy for the spin - off to continue as planned.

Many art - world observers see Newport Street as a bid for Mr. Hirst to establish his profile as a curator and museum builder, and consolidate his legacy.

But Invesco plans to alter its strategy this year and take a more cautious approach toward apartments as bidding for top properties turns «painful,» says Greg Kraus, senior director of acquisitions at Invesco.

Not exact matches

Keith stayed on for a while as a consultant, while Marcus became a vice-president, managing the company's bids on giant public - private partnership projects, such as the first phase of the reconstruction of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a $ 300 - million gig.

Vanbots had done work for Branksome in the past, and Gillam's sister attended the school as a student; the school asked whether he wanted to bid on the project.

Leach was serving as the evening's auctioneer, but couldn't resist making a bid of his own when it came time to find a buyer for the pop star's artistic handiwork.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

But, within the insurance industry, recent attempts to integrate horizontally — such as Anthem's bid for fellow insurer Cigna and Aetna's proposed deal for rival Humana — have faced roadblocks over antitrust concerns.

Trudeau is six months into his bid for the party leadership, and it shows as he briskly shakes every available hand in the room before alighting on his throne to expound on the Conservative government's fickle relationship with China.

But as of 2016, Scott, who was a hospital executive before launching a bid for Governor, had a net worth of nearly $ 150 million, according to his public financial disclosure forms, and he used funds from his personal fortune on his gubernatorial elections in 2010 and 2014.

In 2008, the company made a bid for Napster, the file - sharing service that had relaunched as a subscription music product, but bowed out when the asking price was too high.

As my colleague David Meyer reports, the purchase will likely require the scrutiny of the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS), which recently hit the headlines by stalling Broadcom's unsolicited bid for Qualcomm until President Donald Trump outright nixed that deal.

We've had competing bids for sites as big as 50 acres, [from] hoteliers, developers, industrialists... all wanting to invest as quick as possible.»

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

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.

The loss will not be the end of the competition for 2000 Sydney Games champion Williams, however, as the 36 - year - old is bidding to win her fourth doubles gold medal with sister Serena.

Samantha Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of San Diego - based Pharmly, a pharmaceutical bidding marketplace that graduated from the program in June, says her company benefited from mentors who gave guidance for which she would have paid top dollar had she been working on her own, as well as from $ 60,000 in credit for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

Entrepreneurs can often find money and additional profits by simply putting out for bid line items such as commercial loans, cell phone contracts and insurance premiums.

For the Phelans, who had long threatened to take the company private again, that presented an opportunity Though they ran into opposition from institutional investors who criticized the initial offer as too low, the Phelans won out after slightly sweetening the bid.

Following on from Fiverr in the states there are now several Uk based companies, such as Fourerr, Fivess and Fiverbid, who will get peolpe to bid for your work for under # 5.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by major record labels to revive copyright infringement claims against video - sharing website Vimeo for hosting content that included songs by famed bands such as the Beatles, the Jackson 5, and the Beach Boys without permission.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

Thompson and others, however, argue that given the amount of resources Facebook is throwing into video, it is bound to solve these problems eventually, and doing so will make the platform — as well as other strong contenders such as Snapchat, which claims 10 billion video views a day — far more competitive when it comes to bidding for traditional consumer ad spending.

Strangely, some investors managed to see the new support for Freddie and Fannie as a reason to bid up company shares.

In a way, Elite SEM was conceived as rebuttal to everything its founder and CEO Ben Kirshner found lacking in corporate America, where he met managers and executives more than happy to «slash and burn people left and right» in a bid to make more money for themselves.

The country had initially set June 21 as the date to open bids for 11 new blocks, located in border areas with Iran and Kuwait, and in offshore Gulf waters.

The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for licensing rights.

Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison said that Trump has also talked with advisors often about his ability to drive high traffic numbers for networks such as Fox News and CNN, and feels that he could do the same thing for his own media company even if he is unsuccessful in his presidential bid.

It used the muted shareholder reaction to the transaction as a pressure point, highlighting opportunity its own bid gave for liquidity without shareholder dilution.

The bidding is highly competitive, as business professionals from as far as China have shelled out millions for the chance to hopefully land a lucrative deal with the billionaire.

Britain says it will decide whether to refer Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy broadcaster Sky for an in - depth review as soon as possible.

Amid that backdrop, a number of industry watchers have called on dealmaking as a solution, Kraft Heinz is at the center of this speculation after its $ 143 billion merger bid for Unilever (ul), the European maker of Lipton teas and Hellmann's mayo, was rebuffed.

And remember, finally, that bad earnings news kept rolling in for both Dell and its industry throughout the bidding process, prompting Indigo Equity Research in August 2013, for instance, to call Dell a «sinking ship,» and to label Michael Dell's turnaround plan as «fundamentally flawed.»

Apple and Amazon.com will join Foxconn's bid for Toshiba's semiconductor business, the Nikkei business daily quoted Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou as saying on Monday.