Sentences with phrase «in apparent bid»

Google has reportedly offered to invest around $ 880 million US (1 trillion won) in LG's Display division in an apparent bid to make sure it gets the supply of displays it needs for the next Pixel phone.

However, in an apparent bid to get you to use Bixby more often, Samsung has placed a software lock on the button, allowing you only to activate Bixby from the button.

Even though regulating decentralized virtual currencies seems to go against one of the main benefits of crypto, which is that it is not answerable to any authority, regulators have stated that they are going ahead with legislation in an apparent bid to protect investors from scams and fraud.

Tinder, one of the leading hook - up sites today, developed an interesting add - on that would help their registered users locate the nearest STD testing center in their vicinity in apparent bid to settle the company's beef with AIDS Healthcare Foundation that started last September.

Disgraced former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. is asking for yet another lawyer in an apparent bid to put off his sentencing next month for corruption.

Lansley has revealed that Bercow attempted to change the particulars of the job description, in an apparent bid to pave the way for his preferred candidate.

In an apparent bid to ease Ottawa's concerns, CNOOC has pledged to keep the head office in Calgary, seek a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and place some $ 8 billion of its assets under the control of Nexen's management in Canada.

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.

Israeli politicians and generals have spoken often of an intention to hit hard in Lebanon if war breaks out, in an apparent bid to deter Hezbollah.

LONDON — A former senior civil servant at the Treasury has attacked the government's decision to backstop a $ 2 billion (# 1.5 billion) loan to Saudi Arabia's state oil company in an apparent bid to woo the company to list in London.

Not exact matches

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.»

So there's obviously interest but in reality no reports of a bid have come in and despite rumors of his agent flying in to London and the apparent presence of Lehmann in Dortmund we might stumble on the price.

«They came in the apparent low bidder,» said Green, who declined to say how many other bids were submitted.

Others also argue that the inclusion of Kufour - era contracts is intended to find damaging evidence which can be used to undermine the Presidential bids of some Kufour protégés in order not to disrupt well laid out plans to crown Ken Ofori Atta heir apparent to Akufo Addo who has publicly hinted of his non-availability for the NPP ticket in 2020.

«In assessing the full scope of the Amazon HQ2 RFP opportunity, it was apparent that by linking our efforts, the combined Buffalo Rochester Metro Corridor can offer a proposal that is both compelling and extremely competitive,» said InBN President and CEO Tom Kucharski and GRE Interim President and CEO Matt Hurlbutt at the time of the bid.

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.

Cuomo has since 2012 taken in more than $ 131,000 in campaign contributions from three major financial firms that were then tapped by his administration to manage state bond work without competitive bids and in apparent violation of federal rules.

With such alarming statistics may I inquire why one of your main campaign themes in your re-election bid did not address the apparent catastrophic and rapidly growing «poverty» in the communities of Kiryas Joel, New Square and Kaser?

There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again in a bid to induce anything from mild to unbearable pain — in apparent defiance of the late sci - fi sage's famed first law of robotics, which states that «a robot may not injure a human being».

Washington — A Congressional subcommittee, which has concluded that the National Institute of Education committed «several apparent violations» of federal regulations in handling recent bidding for a major grant, has asked for a major probe of the nie's management of past bidding.

In the last few months the UK's two main political parties have entered into an apparent bidding war over which of them can elevate the teaching of character highest on their educational agendas before...

It should also be apparent, for whoever bids the highest, in the engine, thanks to a full drivetrain rebuild.

LE MANS, France — Corvette Racing's bid for its first GT2 title in the 24 Hours of Le Mans ended this morning at 9:42 a.m. when the No. 64 Corvette C6.R retired with an apparent engine problem.

49 In that regard, it is apparent from the Court's case - law that certain types of coordination between undertakings reveal a sufficient degree of harm to competition that it may be found that there is no need to examine their effects (see, to that effect, judgment in LTM, 56/65, EU: C: 1966:38, paragraphs 359 and 360; judgment in BIDS, paragraph 15, and judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others, C ‑ 32 / 11, EU: C: 2013:160, paragraph 34 and the case - law citedIn that regard, it is apparent from the Court's case - law that certain types of coordination between undertakings reveal a sufficient degree of harm to competition that it may be found that there is no need to examine their effects (see, to that effect, judgment in LTM, 56/65, EU: C: 1966:38, paragraphs 359 and 360; judgment in BIDS, paragraph 15, and judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others, C ‑ 32 / 11, EU: C: 2013:160, paragraph 34 and the case - law citedin LTM, 56/65, EU: C: 1966:38, paragraphs 359 and 360; judgment in BIDS, paragraph 15, and judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others, C ‑ 32 / 11, EU: C: 2013:160, paragraph 34 and the case - law citedin BIDS, paragraph 15, and judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others, C ‑ 32 / 11, EU: C: 2013:160, paragraph 34 and the case - law citedin Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others, C ‑ 32 / 11, EU: C: 2013:160, paragraph 34 and the case - law cited).

The tactical nature of the husband's bid for therapy becomes most apparent when, after committing himself to extensive therapy, he drops out after a session or two, realizing that the ploy to change himself did not succeed in getting his wife back into the marriage.