Sentences with phrase «make desperate bid»

With the holiday shopping frenzy at its peak, it's raining offers and discounts as retailers make a desperate bid to see as many buyers as is logically possible before the end of the year.

The sole survivors of a frontier - town massacre make a desperate bid to reach the next town.

Manchester United flop backed to shine next season by club legend Man United make desperate bid to keep Real Madrid target

Making another desperate bid to avoid being typecast, composer Rachel Portman is on board her 14,000 th female - based English period drama.

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.

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.

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

The move comes in the wake of a USD 400 million hack last month as the company makes a desperate bid to stay afloat.

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Several weeks of jungle adventure followed as the pair made their way north through hazardous terrain in a desperate bid to reach the coast and freedom, often relying upon the hospitality of the rural people they met on their way.

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.

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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.

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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.

Other than weakening their negotiating position with Atletico set to launch their bid to re-sign Costa, the text has also made it clear that Chelsea are desperate to recruit a new striker.

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.

But despite Tim Sherwood being desperate to make this transfer happen, parent club Juve have no interest in selling - and have told Tottenham to not even bother bidding.

A disagreement on a psychiatric ward degenerates into farce as Mark and Jeremy begin making increasingly silly claims about each other's behaviour in a desperate bid to get them sectioned.

All of them tried to offer free support in a desperate bid to make any sales.

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

In a desperate bid to save his mother from a crippling alcohol addiction and reunite his broken family, John is forced to take a job which will see him pushed further into Dublin's dark underbelly and he's forced to make a life - changing moral decision

But even more jaw - dropping is the one - two punch finale that is a pathetically desperate bid to make viewers cry.

I'm about sick of yellow journalists twisting statistics, making up falsehoods, taking quotes out of context and creating clickbait garbage in a desperate bid to destroy everything not Amazon.

I said that some had to make some bids to restart the market; my client had ample liquidity, and I was offering liquidity at a price; if someone was that desperate for liquidity, they could have it at my price.

That game is a wonderful example of what happens when you take a winning formula but make awkward, questionable changes to it in a desperate bid to seem original.

In Toronto, some homebuyers are so desperate to win bidding wars that they're rushing to make offers without even getting an inspection.