Sentences with phrase «failed bids when»

Maybe Wenger could put more pressure on the guys who deal with the transfers but it is harsh to blame a guy for failed bids when he is very unlikely to be the one making the bid and then dealing with the finer points of negotiation.

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The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

He is also one of the most media - savvy members in the upper chamber — a trait that has been apparent since the start of his career, when his first, failed bid to become mayor of Newark was captured in a sympathetic documentary, «Street Fight.»

The potential downside for a failed bid is at least -25 % when we look at what happened after the Monsanto bid:

Investors bid the price of hot stocks so high because of growth expectations years into the future or a mystique around the founder and invariably get caught in the crash when the company fails to meet expectations.

When Sweden bid to host the 2004 Olympics, it was slated to become the Olympic Village; the bid failed, but the momentum for a new neighborhood was enormous, and ground was broken seven or eight years ago.

Wyllie's bid ended when a jackshaft failed.

Whether it was because we lost one of the best players in the side to a Premier League or European rival or because we failed with a transfer bid or perhaps ended up signing an over the hill Swedish midfielder with a bad back when we badly needed a striker, there have been some stinkers.

There were reports that we had a few bids for William Carvalho turned down as well, so can anyone explain how we failed to get the players we needed when there is nearly # 200 million gathering dust in the bank?

Arsene Wenger attempted to sign the 24 - year - old over the summer but failed to get the deal done before the transfer window slammed shut and will make a # 7m bid when it reopens.

The Chilean did have his move in the summer blocked when a bid from Manchester City was accepted, only for the club to fail to convince replacement Thomas Lemar to join from Monaco.

I'll say it again mahrez should not be considered as an option b, c, or d if the Lemar bid fails, the same people who are rating him so highly will be the first to turn on him when he will have another average season mark my words.

The Mirror is reporting that Pep Guardiola will try again to sign Alexis for Man City when the winter transfer window comes around in January after failing with a deadline day bid last week.

I do believe that Gazidis has failed us and the manager when it comes to transfers, look at how AFC still bid low for Auba and Wenger wasn't part of this deal from reports, same pattern but no Wenger so maybe it wasn't Wenger who was bidding low all these years but Gazidis?

We failed in a bid to sign the 20 year - old last summer when he opted to move to the Bundesliga side, and he has hit the floor running in Germany, nailing 21 assists and 10 goals in his debut season.

Arsenal have more than Wenger to get things done and we should recognise this, when an area at Arsenal fails then we would do best to blame Arsenal FC as a whole and not 1 man who doesn't control how much we bid for players...

But it doesn't mean much when we see a failed Vardy bid and nothing else after that.

Barca failed with three bids for Coutinho in August, and he remained a Liverpool player when the summer window closed.

When we failed with our first bid, their chief executive Matt Williams, who is now general manager at Turf Moor, said: «Burnley made us an offer but we turned it down and told them what we felt we'd get at a tribunal.

Businesswoman Jessica Crawford was also in the running, but ended her bid when she failed to gain sufficient traction among local GOP leaders.

What message does it send when the governor, senate and assembly fail to pass reforms after the biggest bid rigging scandal in state history?

When Cuomo began his political resurrection after a failed gubernatorial bid in 2002, Percoco was with him.

But he did win, and he held the seat of governor until 1994, when he failed in his bid for re-election, losing to George Pataki.

When announcing his leadership bid on Wednesday, Ed Balls mentioned the «I» word endlessly, and praised a politician whose sour countenance and self - styled toughness have long embodied the most dried - up school of Labour politics: Phil Woolas, this week heard bemoaning the fact that Labour failed to make more of the policy whereby benefits are refused to those seeking indefinite leave to remain (which would have made for very uplifting posters).

The confusion began when Brega failed to formally submit a bid for the contract.

Paladino also testified that he decided to run for the Buffalo School Board after his failed gubernatorial bid in 2010, when someone suggested Paladino start his political career on the School Board or city Council and work his way up.

Although Spitzer's then - wife, Silda Wall, stoically stood by him when he resigned, she never helped the randy pol campaign during his failed comeback bid for city comptroller in 2013.

Spitzer and Smith first became chummy when she worked as a communications aide for his political comeback bid — a failed campaign for city comptroller in 2013.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.

When a band of four Somali pirates fails in its bid to take over the container ship, it flees in the ship's emergency lifeboat, taking the eponymous Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) as a hostage to ransom and drawing down the might of the U.S. Navy's anti-piracy task force operating around the Horn of Africa.

Although Ted was able to keep his senate seat for 40 years following the incident, his White House ambitions fell flat when he did not run in 1972 or 1976, and failed to secure 1980 bid for nomination.

The second pitfall can arise when the customer fails to objectively evaluate bids.

Of even greater concern, however, is that when Malloy appointed Erik Clemons to the State Board of Education, the Governor failed to report that Erik Clemons is the president of a nonprofit corporation that is collecting in excess of $ 500,000 in state funds as a result of a lucrative no - bid contract funded through the State Department of Education.

At about 4 A.M. on election day 1992, when it looked as if Bush was going to fail in his bid for a second term, Bandar had dispatched a private letter to him saying, You're my friend for life.

Value - at - Risk, and other systems that rely on liquid tradable markets fail when bid - ask spreads widen.

However, when it came up for sale at Sotheby's in» 97, it failed to make the opening bid of $ 20,000.

His Henry Moore Bound to Fail set an auction record for postwar art when the hammer came down at Christie's in 2001 as bidding reached $ 9.9 million.

This calculation fails to acknowledge that some of these generators are already receiving payments for those services by bidding into a market and agreeing to provide the service of additional capacity when needed.

The mistake is not only the moral one of putting the bulk of the legal system at arm's length from the rainmakers and their well - watered friends but also — and this is the gravamen of my post, I suppose — the analytical one of failing to see that, absent some black swan large scale social disruption, solutions will be forged to the problems facing the legal system, and that, however unpolished they may appear when seen from above, these solutions and their near cousins bid fair to eat their way up the quality / sophistication ladder in the way in which minimills» steel did until --

He was loosely associated with Measure M and when it failed, so did his bid.

A failed bid could be defined as: that moment when a person seeks the attention of their partner, and the partner does not respond or mis - responds.

Marriage expert John Gottman, Ph.D, identified failed bids — that moment when a person seeks the attention of their partner, and the partner does not respond or mis - responds — as a key predictor of divorce.

By failing to turn towards bids and keep commitments, even when they seem inconsequential, we inspire feelings of doubt in our partners.

The intention is to try, and when we fail, we can always come back to repair by making our own bids to them.

When bids fail, as they inevitably do in all relationships, seek to repair.

A failed bid is that moment when a person seeks the attention of their partner, and the partner does not respond or mis - responds.

Technology increases instances of failed bids — identified by marriage expert John Gottman, Ph.D, as that moment when a person seeks the attention of their partner, and the partner does not respond or mis - responds — which is a key indicator of divorce.