Sentences with phrase «done in a bid»

There are several things that need to be done in a bid to achieve this dream.

This was done in a bid to launch self - driving taxis on Dubai roads by 2020.

Your arguments are weak, disconnected and give off the same desperate tone that the large, draconian churches do in their bid to keep the power and money flowing.

The result is that Spurs still have work to do in their bid to secure a third successive top - four finish, after this 1 - 1 draw at the Amex Stadium.

Sources hinted that it was done in a bid to...

They are doing this in a bid to offer original content, similar to HBO.

This is done in a bid to determine the level of risk you carry before offering you any credit.

Urstadt responded that the leading law firms can increase their revenues and boost profits by also doing this in a bid to take market share in the mid-market.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

The failed $ 6 - billion bid by China Minmetals (another state - owned enterprise) for Noranda, a Canadian copper and zinc miner, in 2004 had similar consequences: Canada did not see another major Chinese bid until this year.

Even if his case does get reviewed in a timely fashion, his bid for clemency could still be turned down.

Bon - Ton did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on the store closures but announced in a press release Wednesday that the liquidation firms» bid had been approved by the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

While the US VC houses don't appear to be raising funds anywhere near the size of SoftBank's Vision Fund, it's possible that they will work together on deals in a bid to convince founders to take their money instead of or alongside SoftBank's.

The more vague an understanding the people in your network have of what you do the less likely you are to get on the bid list or receive a hot tip.

The people did not say how big a stake the Chinese would take in the consortium that would make the bid.

He added that he was «worried by the contacts that the Russians were having with US persons» and «had unresolved questions» by the time he left office about whether» the Russians had succeeded in getting Americans to do their bidding.

But Baron's account contradicts assertions by President Trump, who has repeatedly accused Bezos and the paper of doing Amazon's bidding — in addition to criticizing its political reporting — despite the fact that Amazon itself does not own any stake in the Post.

In Montreal, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté has bid on the historic Rio Tinto Alcan building, which he reportedly hopes to turn into a «Cirque complex» including a hotel.

Google doesn't restrict keyword bids in any way, the company representative told Business Insider.

According to this theory, the family didn't want even the slightest hint of impropriety to affect the Sky bid — especially when there is enough attention already on the Murdochs» history with News of the World and the hacking of private telephone accounts, an affair that caused them to drop an earlier bid for the company in 2011.

«How do you lend against a house that should in theory be $ 1 million, but someone overpaid in a bidding war at $ 1.4 million, and they want a loan for 75 per cent of the value?»

Italy opened the bidding process for state - controlled airline Alitalia on Friday, hoping private investors will succeed in reviving the unprofitable carrier after repeated injections of state aid failed to do so.

Agents generally do the bidding of the athletes who pay their commissions, even when it's not necessarily in a client's best interest.

We've done some acquisitions, but we beat out public companies in those bids.

UK - based Bushveld Minerals has launched its second takeover bid for local coal explorer Lemur Resources in two years, this time proposing to acquire all the shares it doesn't own in the business for about $ 10.9 million.

We're the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don't bid properly.

Since the 1980s, when companies began slashing jobs in a bid to do more with less, successive rounds of layoffs have fed into the belief that lifelong employment is a thing of the past.

GGP has received a nearly $ 15 billion bid from Brookfield to acquire the shares it currently doesn't own in the REIT.

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.

The latest investor revolt appears to center on news that Valeant didn't get the kinds of bids that it wanted for one of its pharmaceutical units, iNova, which sells and distributes over-the-counter and prescription medications in Australia, New Zealand, and a few other countries outside the U.S..

The increased wagering on golf won't necessarily go away if Woods» doesn't hold up as a player: His previous comeback bids have ended in disappointment.

Women business owners still face greater difficulties in gaining access to commercial credit and bidding on government contracts than do their male colleagues, and pockets of resistance to women entrepreneurs remain strong in some industries and geographic regions.

In July last year, when CIR was known as Asset Backed Holdings, it launched an off - market bid for the shares it did not already own in PRL at $ 3 cash a sharIn July last year, when CIR was known as Asset Backed Holdings, it launched an off - market bid for the shares it did not already own in PRL at $ 3 cash a sharin PRL at $ 3 cash a share.

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.

Among travel and vacation scams, the Better Business Bureau highlighted con artists who post photos of properties that aren't for rent or that don't exist in a bid to get your credit card information.

The twist is that people on the platform will also be paid Soma Tokens if they do things that benefit other people on the platform in a bid to foster a sense of community.

Such niggling uncertainties did not deter Dresser Industries Inc., which bid on SRC in late 1982.

But a tax inversion does not appear to be the driving factor in either Teva's bid for Mylan or Mylan's for Perrigo.

One state Democratic leader told Business Insider that in a recent conversation, Springer did not rule out a bid, saying he would consider running if he was «needed by the party.»

Some states, like California, don't restrict the amount of dispensaries in a certain zone, unlike other states, like Delaware, that bid out dispensary licenses sparingly.

In a 50 - page ruling that read like a Supreme Court brief, he rejected in no uncertain terms the Department of Justice's aggressive use of the broad powers of the 1789 All Writs Act to force Apple to do its bidding in San BernardinIn a 50 - page ruling that read like a Supreme Court brief, he rejected in no uncertain terms the Department of Justice's aggressive use of the broad powers of the 1789 All Writs Act to force Apple to do its bidding in San Bernardinin no uncertain terms the Department of Justice's aggressive use of the broad powers of the 1789 All Writs Act to force Apple to do its bidding in San Bernardinin San Bernardino.

In fact, there's an argument to be made — as Dennis Berman does at the Wall Street Journal — that the Verizon bid for AOL says more about Verizon's difficulties than it does about any intrinsic value that its target might have.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

SABMiller immediately issued its own statement saying it still didn't like the terms of the new offer, which would give its public shareholders 42.15 pounds a share in cash, a premium of 44 % over where the shares were trading before news of AB InBev's intention to bid leaked out last month.

Both companies said the deal did not pose any security risks and Canyon Bridge had told CFIUS it would double the number of Lattice's employees in a bid to make the deal more palatable, according to people familiar with the matter.

But that doesn't change the fact that in any bid that forces it to go up against Amazon or Facebook, the odds are stacked against it.

In 2012, I wrote about a study that looked at the winners of bidding wars for contested acquisitions, and found they generally do worse over the next few years that the companies that lost.

Elliott's purchase from Fidelity Investments of $ 60 million worth of leveraged notes in Oncor's parent, Energy Future Intermediate Holding Co., was all it needed to do to block Buffett's bid, according to people familiar with the matter.

A $ 10 million donation from Elon Musk, which he offered up in January in a bid to ensure artificial intelligence doesn't end up killing us, will be split between 37 different research projects.