Sentences with phrase «bid for more»

In a bid for more speed, Apple says the A10 Fusion chip offers 40 - percent faster CPU speed and 50 percent faster graphics performance when compared to the previous 9.7 - inch iPad.

Provincial Court judges in British Columbia are considering their position after failing in their latest bid for more pay.

Its decision to introduce a capped rate adds plausibility to the suggestion that it abandoned the original contract round because one or more of the applicants bid for more cash.

This latter statement seems consistent with what LAG has been told by sources close to the tender process, ie one or more of the existing contract holders had bid for more cash and so were not prepared to extend the existing contract.

On July 14, 2011, a Peabody Energy Corp. subsidiary submitted the winning bid for more than 221 million tons of federal coal in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

Sadiq Khan launches «London Borough of Culture» competition The Mayor of London has announced a new initiative in which London's 32 local authorities can bid for more than # 1m of funding for cultural projects.

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You can also hire staff and improve various things in a bid for a more efficient team.

Yes, they could get a small amount of bonds if they met the spread, but was it worth it to bid for more?

Typically, target date funds will reduce the amount of stocks they hold and increase their bond allocation in a bid for a more conservative allocation over time.

But if the appearance plays to a bid for more conservative truck shoppers, Honda's designers carried forward the in - bed trunk that set the original Ridgeline apart from its competition.

In early July, universities were asked to bid for more places for the 2014 - 15 year, albeit that the latter was starting within weeks.

The officials in the Universal Services Administrative Co. in Washington sent a letter last week to the Ysleta school district in Texas rejecting its bid for more than $ 18 million in E-rate money.

Dwayne Johnson is the no - nonsense leader of «the elite of the elite», the LA Lifeguard team that in a bid for more funding employs the disgraced Olympian athlete Matt (Zac Efron).

Except she does apparently draw one ethical line in the sand, risking her entire career in an early scene by laughing down a powerful gun manufacturer's bid for a more «lady» - friendly NRA agenda.

It's all a shameless bid for a more innocent audience.

But Schmidly, vice president for research and graduate studies, parlayed that low ranking into a successful bid for more state money for faculty and help in boosting the school's research budget by 50 %.

Niagara Bottling lost out on its bid for more than $ 10 million in state funding for a proposed plant in the Town of Ulster.

He supports a bid for more speed cameras near schools, though his state Senator, Simcha Felder, does not.

With a string of recent acquisitions and a bid for more, CEO Marissa Mayer is turning Yahoo into a diversified media company.

How is this state facing approximately $ 3 billion in budget deficits over the next two years, yet the SDOE requested bids for more charter schools?

Revd Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer said: «At a national level we are committed to supporting dioceses in their bids for more new Free Schools in areas of need, which has always been our rationale.

After the order of 100,000 units is met, MHRD will invite bids for more tablets.

The amount I have gotten already has exceeded my expectations, but I'm still bidding for more, quietly.

These lease sales have generated approximately $ 16 million in winning bids for more than a million acres in federal waters.

Not exact matches

They must either accept his bid to buy out shareholders for $ 13.65 (or about $ 24 billion), or vote it down, forcing Dell and his backers into an even more protracted battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

Thanks to the «economics of flexibility» they can also bid for contracts they would never have had the chance to go for previously, when so much more was done «in house.»

Its key broadband internet business has suffered a double blow, first from the Federal Communications Commission's ruling for more utility - like regulation of the Internet's infrastructure, and then, shortly afterwards, by the collapse of its bid for Time Warner Cable (TWC).

Often, presidential candidates will launch their bids for office a year or more before the actual November elections.

Larian, the CEO of the toy company MGA Entertainment, on Friday bid $ 890 million for more than 300 Toys R Us stores in the US and Canada.

Recently, the fate of CNOOC's bid for beleaguered Calgary oilsands producer Nexen became even more uncertain after the federal government blocked a $ 6 - billion takeover of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia's Petronas at the eleventh hour.

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.

Secretary of State for Culture Karen Bradley, who is responsible for media issues, said Tuesday she had written to media watchdog Ofcom for more information on its views on Fox's bid for London - listed Sky Plc, the biggest pay - tv operator in the U.K.

Adidas will lose that deal to Nike at the end of the next season (it chose not to bid to renew) and so the store is in the awkward spot of bearing heavy Adidas branding for only one more year.

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.

And in January, Britain launched a new, two - year, multiple - entry visa in a bid to woo even more Chinese visitors to its shores, following changes made in 2015 that allowed tourists and business travelers to apply for both British and European visas in a single process.

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.

Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm is a «brilliant move» that will make the company a lot more profitable, says Edward Snyder, analyst at Charter Equity Research.

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.

He found that, for a variety of reasons, «MBO go - shops rarely generate topping bids,» so that the damage done by the absence of more competition at the pre-signing phase could never be overcome.

Calgary - based CP, Canada's second - largest railroad operator, launched its takeover bid for Norfolk Southern in mid-November, touting potential savings of more than $ 1.8 billion annually.

In 2015 he consolidated the company's engineering efforts under three executives — Terry Myerson, Scott Guthrie, and Qi Lu (who has since left Microsoft for health reasons)-- and bid adieu to several more, among them former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.

CHICAGO, April 11 - Retailer Toys» R» Us has received multiple bids of more than $ 1 billion for an 85 percent stake in its Asian business, its lawyer Joshua Sussberg said at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing on Wednesday.

Governor Ivey's first major act, the Alabama Jobs Act, was a revision and extension of a jobs bill first signed in 2015 to make the state and its incentive packages more competitive in bidding for business.

Amazon.com Inc added a new feature to its website on Tuesday that allows customers to bid for lower prices on more than 150,000 items, including fine art and rare coins, sold by third - party vendors.

LONDON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 - Comcast Corp would become the world's largest pay - TV operator if CEO Brian Roberts» $ 31 - billion bid for Sky Plc succeeds, more than doubling its subscribers and expanding its international presence as growth slows in its core U.S. market.

In a bid to make itself more attractive to business owners, LinkedIn has launched an enhanced analytics suite for company pages.

Just how Tribune (TPUB) would mount a hostile takeover bid for Gannett (GCI), a company that is more than four times its size in terms of stock - market value, is unclear.

-- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (TSX: VRX) is extending the deadline for its more than US$ 50 - billion hostile takeover bid for Botox - maker Allergan (NYSE: AGN).

LONDON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Comcast Corp would become the world's largest pay - TV operator if CEO Brian Roberts» $ 31 - billion bid for Sky Plc succeeds, more than doubling its subscribers and expanding its international presence as growth slows in its core U.S. market.