Sentences with phrase «city in a bid»

Ride - sharing service Uber's app is mocking New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's push of reducing on - demand for - hire vehicles in the city in a bid to reduce traffic snarls.

The 21 - year - old has made just two first team appearances for Arsenal, and spent last season on loan at Hull City in his bid to gain experience.

The 29 - year - old is thought to be unsettled at the Bernabeu at the moment, with United competing with Chelsea and Manchester City in a bid to sign him for next season.

Chelsea forward Eden Hazard has been accused by a Belgian newspaper of faking an injury during the side's recent defeat to Leicester City in a bid to boycott playing for manager Jose Mourinho.

City are currently in negotiations with Premier League rivals Swansea City in a bid to thrash out a deal that allows them to bring Wilfried Bony to the Etihad Stadium, but with the Ivorian international out of action for a month whilst he plays at the African Cup of Nations, it would appear that City want to keep Jovetic for now.

The Treasury is considering extending whistleblower protection to the City in a bid to prevent market manipulation.

The Glider Challenge lets you pilot a glider through the city in a bid to destroy floating air - mines.

The remainder of the game sees you slaughtering American troops en masse and destroying huge sections of major cities in your bid for patriotic justice — with an unending string of hilariously embarrassing one - liners (Sweet, sweet!

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«It's easy to see why the City (of London) and highly - remunerated advisors cheerlead for this listing, but the U.K. currently has strict corporate governance rules and it's vital these aren't watered down in a bid to attract Saudi Aramco.

In 2008, the city actually moved to close half its brothels in a bid to dislodge organized crimIn 2008, the city actually moved to close half its brothels in a bid to dislodge organized crimin a bid to dislodge organized crime.

In a bid to attract younger employees, more companies are moving out of the «burbs and back in to citieIn a bid to attract younger employees, more companies are moving out of the «burbs and back in to citiein to cities.

In the past year, major cities have occasionally seen bidding wars — not for homes but for prime rentals, with choice units renting for higher than asking price.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

U.S. authorities have repeatedly targeted companies and individuals from the Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, in a bid to cut off Pyongyang's major export revenue from selling natural resources, such as coal.

Between now and the next round of negotiations in Mexico City in November, don't be surprised to see President Trump take a chapter out of Nixon's playbook by using the «madman theory» to categorically launch an offensive attack against Canada and Mexico in an all - or - nothing bid for a «win - lose - lose» NAFTA.

But that presented a marketing problem, because other, much larger practices in midtown Manhattan were making heavy use of Google AdWords, in which advertisers bid on such search terms as «New York City dentist.»

When asked about the campaign by a journalist, one of the unnamed activists remarked the «campaign is not meant to harm the gay people who live in the nine cities» [in unprotected states] that are bidding for Amazon's foothold.

After Amazon announced in September that it would build a second headquarters in an undetermined location, more than 50 North American cities concocted bids to persuade the company to choose it.

Harris got the chance to bid on a large job for Barnes & Noble.com — a traveling technology exhibit that would cover 25 cities in nine months.

Second, in many cities, the Amazon bid brought together unprecedented coalitions of government officials, startup community leaders, and corporate executives.

Edmonton took the company to court in a similar move to Toronto (the judge denied the city's bid for an injunction).

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

Amazon's Request for Proposal narrows the list significantly in terms of the number of cities realistically able to bid for such a project.

Few packages rival those bids in scale, but other cities have come up with their own creative offerings.

Before the end of this year, Social Development Minister Jean - Yves Duclos is slated to table a national housing strategy, the first bid by Ottawa to take a lead in the area — mostly dominated by provinces and cities — in decades.

Uber Technologies Inc. is making progress in its bid to appease London's transport regulator ahead of a critical court battle over its license to operate in the city.

By opening up bids for its second headquarters to cities and municipalities across the country, Amazon is countering that narrative: For only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 jobs.

«We're all concerned about what could be gentrification or displacement, how do we deal with that,» said Aisha Glover, president and chief executive of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, which is involved in the New Jersey city's bid.

The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records on Thursday gave the city 30 days to release their bid to Megan Shannon, a citizen who asked for the information in January under the state's Right - to - Know Law.

In October 2017, Apartment List released an analysis of the impact of the Amazon HQ2 on rent prices in some of the cities bidding to host Amazon's new headquarterIn October 2017, Apartment List released an analysis of the impact of the Amazon HQ2 on rent prices in some of the cities bidding to host Amazon's new headquarterin some of the cities bidding to host Amazon's new headquarters.

Of course, the biggest question will be how to win over city and county governments to allow further construction of such a structure and which startup will prevail in the bid to build our human vacuum tube of the future.

And that two of these are not cities, but regions, shows that while the retail giant has clearly made this bidding process for its next headquarters an exercise in trying to extract the most generous tax breaks from municipalities, in a perfect world Amazon would plant «HQ2» in the nation's capital.

His previously electoral experience includes running a generously self - financed campaign for St. Albert City Council at the age of 19 (he was unsuccessful in that bid).

In sprucing up their Amazon bids for Bezos, cities ranging from Atlanta to New York will need to take an honest look at whether housing stock and public transportation — both critical to a winning bid — are up to the HQ2 challenge.

In the city, one of the 20 finalists for Amazon's second headquarters, there's concern winning the bid will exacerbate already significant problems with income inequality.

«After months of work with key stakeholders throughout the Baltimore area, we recently submitted our bid with full and enthusiastic support from community and business leaders in and around the city.

Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital, a Culver City technology firm, became Tronc's second - largest shareholder in June 2016, and that investment helped Tronc fend off a hostile takeover bid from Gannett, whose last offer was $ 864 million for the company.

TSE: 2325 — Meeting Date: March 30, 2016 The directors of NJS are expected to face tough questions from their shareholders at the upcoming shareholder meeting over the arrest of six of their employees for suspicion of bid - rigging in regards to sewage related projects in Chiba - City.

«Our immigration policy is much more liberal,» Mr. Watson said of one edge a Canadian city might have in bidding to host Amazon's second headquarters.

Edmontonians may remember Mr. Nickel from his unsuccessful mayoral bids in 1998 and 2001, and his one - term on city council from 2004 to 2007.

Ahead of Thursday's deadline for cities to bid, D.C. was pitching four different locations in hopes of landing what's being touted as the largest economic development deal in years, one that could bring an investment of up to $ 5 billion and as many as 50,000 jobs.

City authorities recently announced a much needed $ 322 million ($ 300m) renovation, in consideration with the city's bid to host the 2024 OlympCity authorities recently announced a much needed $ 322 million ($ 300m) renovation, in consideration with the city's bid to host the 2024 Olympcity's bid to host the 2024 Olympics.

When Jeremiah bade the exiles in the city of Babylon «pray unto Yahweh for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace,» (Jeremiah 29:7) we see the dawning of a better day, whose full light, however, did not come before Christ — «Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you»; (Luke 6:27 - 28) «Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.»

It looks like the Pope is bidding fair to become «the Pope of Caritapolis,» who sees the whole world — in all its cultural, political, and cultural dimensions — as to be best grasped within the long history of «The City....

As Augustine says in City of God, «To love his neighbor bids him to do all he can to bring his neighbor to love God.

Bid adieu to the City of New York and watch as it shrinks to a speck in the rearview mirror.

The SPL champions are looking to the European market in a bid to fill the boots of Gary Hooper, who left to join Premier League Norwich City last month.

City with all their strength in the centre of pitch bid for Kondogbia who oozes strength athleticism and then theres us who might not want to block one players path, one player who performed in a half season.

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Icardi has also attracted interest from several Premier League clubs in recent months, with the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool linked with making a bid for the talented youngster, as reported by the Metro.