Sentences with phrase «desperate bid for»

While Clarke is optimistic that the new cryptocurrency will revive Kodak's flagging fortunes, the Financial Times calls the move a «last desperate bid for relevance.»

In a desperate bid for financial resources, North Korea and Kim Jong - un are unleashing hackers against Bitcoin exchanges.

When the terrible secrets of this lost city are unearthed, Drake's quest descends into a desperate bid for survival that strains the limits of his endurance and forces him to confront his deepest fears.

«Survivor Mode is you versus the creature, against the clock and in a desperate bid for survival,» explains Creative Assembly's community manager Ngan Nguyen.

It's as if every shinobi is packing a pair of inflatable tube men under her top, flailing about wildly in a desperate bid for freedom.

Rez is a rhythm game, and it isn't going to let your desperate bid for survival spoil that.

If you play it in the dark with the sound cranked up, it's easy to immerse yourself in your desperate bid for survival.

Or that mode of precious, jokey, self - regarding prose that seems like a desperate bid for our readerly affections.

From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

As the cops close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's girlfriend Gilly Johnson (Gail Russell), a schoolteacher who sees a wounded soul behind his aggression.

Flat broke and in a corner, he decides to make one last desperate bid for fame.

Feels like nothing less than Dana Carvey's desperate bid for his own «Austin Powers» - like franchise, but with a harmless humor far less crude.

If you're borderline - deficient in a vitamin or mineral, your body will respond to it when you eat foods containing it, and then demand you eat more — hence eternal hunger, whether it's hunger for long - lost bacon or for 40 more pounds of broccoli in a desperate bid for iron and magnesium (both low in broccoli, which actually has a lot of Vitamin C, but is a low - quality source of Vitamin A and a weak source of calcium as well).

It didn't take long for the water spilling over the doorways to send her family on a desperate bid for survival.

Big, important groups with name - recognition have been hollowed out of their principles in the desperate bid for government contracts.

Fuller Brush plans to halve its product line in a desperate bid for viability.

Sporadic «jaggies» and some light banding aside, the 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer of The Chumscrubber proper is impeccable, while the accompanying Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is quite playful, particularly whenever the titular post-apocalyptic superhero — yeah, there are a few desperate bids for cult status, but at least Thumbsucker's insufferable New York - as - Shangri - La subtext is studiously avoided — rears his head.

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Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

«For instance, several years ago Gould and a colleague proposed a new hypothesis, called «punctuated equilibrium,» in a desperate bid to explain away the fossil gaps.

His form for the Eagles last season could be enough to convince them to make a bid as they remain interested despite a change in manager, and it certainly looks as though he'll be desperate to move on as having been frozen out again, he'll need regular football elsewhere to secure his spot in the World Cup squad next summer.

Something tells me that we are in for another shocker at the etihad, and that is when Le fraud will wake up from his usual transfer window slumber and start throwing desperate bids around.

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Brendan Rodgers is desperate to bring in a top class replacement for Luis Suarez after his # 75m move to Barcelona, and has also been linked with a loan bid for AC Milan star Mario Balotelli, though that may now have fallen through.

Most of the Arsenal transfer rumours this summer have been about possible incoming strikers as we are all desperate to get that fabled replacement for Danny Welbeck, starting with the failed bid for Jamie Vardy, and ending (we hope not!)

The deal also includes the option for Wolves to make the signing of Gorkss a permanent one at Molineux with new manager Dean Saunders desperate to bring in new faces to aid the club's bid to avoid back - to - back relegations.

The A's probably aren't going to get into a free agent bidding war for a 30 - year - old first baseman while they're trying to rebuild, especially not when they could trade him now to a team in desperate need of some offense.

I think he only bids because he is desperate for the attention.

Meanwhile Liverpool will be desperate to inflict a first home league defeat on Mourinho's side this season as they look to close the gap on fourth placed Manchester United after the Red Devils strengthened their bid for Champions League football with a 2 - 1 win against Crystal Palace on Saturday evening.

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Then came the desperate last - ditch # 92m bid for Monaco ace Thomas Lemar, as reported by Sky Sports.

The Daily Express have noted that Spurs have accepted a # 10.5 million bid from the Magpies for the versatile attacker, and with the tabloid noting that the international is «desperate» to complete an exit from White Hart Lane, it looks likely that this transfer will be completed imminently.

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It is now being reported this morning that Wenger has returned to Monaco with a third bid of # 45million for Lemar, and with the player himself desperate to come to the Emirates the French international is hopeful that the deal could be finalised before the weekend..

Mourinho is desperate to land Everton defender John Stones and having failed with two earlier bids for the 21 - year - old the Stamford Bridge side are set to stump up a massive # 40m fee for the Toffees star, an offer the Goodison Park outfit will find impossible to turn down.

It wouldn't surprise me if we hear that Dany Welbacks knee needed an operation months ago but they (at Arsenal) prolong it so if we were to bid for a striker they wouldn't know how desperate we really are and Jackup the price, but I'm sure I'm wrong

Ings and Shaw would represent a good start by the club if they can pull both moves off, and both players will be desperate to get regular minutes under their belt as they bid to make England's World Cup squad for next summer.

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The report has suggested that the Italian champions are desperate to bolster their attacking resources and likely to launch a $ 6m bid for the 28 - year - old striker to make a six - month loan move to Turin when the transfer window re-opens in January.

The rumours of discordance in the dressing room and the fact that Malaga were desperate for points in their bid for Champions League football next season made it a potentially awkward encounter, but everything turned out great.

As for John Stones: reports in the press, who are desperate for us to let Stones wander in a daze into the wild and be rescued by one of the «top» clubs, suggest that firstly Chelsea will be coming back with a bid between # 26m and # 34m and secondly that Stones actually wants to go to Chelsea.

Both clubs are desperate for a player of his stature and Arsenal could face a bidding war against Pep Guardiola's side, who have had many defensive frailties this season.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

May's increasingly frenzied bid to find a form of words on the Irish question that will keep all sides on board for a bit longer is similar to Blair's desperate contortions to secure UN resolutions in advance of Iraq.

One of the groups calling for Britain to leave the European Union has unveiled an advert referencing the Orlando terrorist attack in a desperate bid to drive up votes for Brexit.

Desperate to raise money in the weeks before his first run for Congress, Michael Grimm e-mailed an ally in a bold bid to score large, and likely illegal, donations.

The headline multiplayer mode, Operations, encapsulates the essence The Great War; the power play for territory and the desperate bids to reclaim lost ground, and injects it into a game mechanic that incites a genuine sense of achievement arising from the trials and tribulations.

This allows me to segue seamlessly into The Child in Time and its educational debates... Campbell Moore played Charles, who despite writing a government paper on the need for more rigid discipline for children, rejects society and runs off into the woods in a desperate bid to find his own inner child.

The headline multiplayer mode, Operations, encapsulates the essence of The Great War; the power play for territory and the desperate bids to reclaim lost ground, and injects it into a game mechanic that incites a genuine sense of achievement arising from the trials and tribulations.

So in a desperate bid to remain in employment, Barney finds himself in a position where bodies are piling up around him and a local detective (Ray Winstone) is breathing down his neck.Anyone who's followed my blog for a period of time may remember the glowing praise I have regularly afforded to Carlyle.