Sentences with phrase «opened the bidding last»

«We went through the bid process, we opened the bids last year,» Carter said.

The Chinese opened the bidding last week, with a suggestion that one percent of the U.S. annual GDP would be a good amount to send their way.

Not exact matches

Normally we accept multiple bids and we also do, since last November, a second round of open market operations, potentially each day at around 5.10 pm in the day, about one in every two or three days.

Many investors worry about laws passed last year that increase the government's role in managing the pre-salt assets, closing them off from open bidding and mandating that Petrobras be the lead operator in exploiting them.

The Toronto Real Estate Board had predicted a sluggish start to 2018, particularly when compared to peak levels during the opening months of last year, when frenzied activity fuelled double - digit price increases and bidding wars were commonplace.

Mancini puts City's title bid apparently failing down to the recent injury of Sergio Aguero who missed their draws with Sunderland and Stoke last month — two games which allowed United to open up a five point gap on their rivals.

NBC, who just lost the U.S. Open to FOX, had the winning bid for the British last month and will take over along with their sister network, Golf Channel, in 2017.

Meanwhile, Liverpool have been attempting to rebuild their relationship with Southampton behind the scenes and have not felt able to launch a formal bid for the player, feeling they have to wait for an invitation to do so — or for another club to open bidding — after their apology last month for an improper approach.

Reports in Spain have suggested that the door is still open for United and Morata, but it remains to be seen — likewise Chelsea may try and last ditch bid for Lukaku.

In October last year, the agency opened a North of England bureau in a bid to capitalise on the opportunities created by the Northern Powerhouse.

Long shut out of statewide office, Southern California Democrats saw a glimmer of hope last week, when Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez announced a bid for the Golden State's open Senate seat.

The UK government last week laid out its intention to keep an open border between the two states in a bid to ensure «frictionless» trade can continue.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker raised $ 4.6 million in the last three months for his bid for an open U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, more than doubling the amount he had collected as of March.

Nobody from the seven - member committee even bothered to attend bid openings for the $ 10 million project last October.

With the accolades it picked up at this year's Sundance — including a lovely little bidding war for its distribution before finally landing with Open Road Films — and as it prepares to close out the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, Dope hardly needs any more festival love before it opens June 19 (though it will get one last send off to theatrical release at the LA Film Festival).

Sir David also described a shift in the nature of free school applications, hinting at an increase in bids to open alternative provision (AP) free schools in wave 11, which closed last week.

Last month, the Department for Education updated its guidance on the application criteria for free school bids, and included a new option for social need, describing this as opening a school to «address a social issue» such as bringing together pupils from different faiths or ethnic groups.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

LONDON — Before a standing - room crowd at Christie's here last month, the bidding opened on an abstract painting filled with black scratching, «Burrito» scrawled across the top in bright yellow.

Burge opened the bidding on Green Car Crash at $ 17 million, the highest sum ever previously paid for a Warhol (Mao, 1972, bought last November by Hong Kong — based Joseph Lau).

I mean, like, is your last to be regarded as your opening bid to challenge Michael for this blog's alpha, doofus screw - up bragging rights, or what?

Labor last night agreed to negotiate with the Coalition in «good faith», creating hopes a deal is possible but it rejected the government's opening bid that would have cut the current target by 40 per cent.

Even though the counter is 88 % (which I also have personally seen in the last week on a property), I have seen some acceptances on the same day as bid opening (which tells me they don't have to manually review) at 84 - 87 %.

During a crowded open house at a five - bedroom Queen Anne Victorian in Montclair last month, the Buzzeos, who have two sons, ages 1 and 3, said, based on their previous experiences, they suspected the list price of $ 539,000 was set deliberately low to spark a bidding war.

The auction begins promptly at the appointed time with opening remarks summarizing the terms of sale, the methods of bidding, and any last minute changes or disclosures.