Sentences with phrase «whose failed bid»

Surrounded by a bevy of cameras, Mr. Ulrich said he wanted to avoid the fate of Mr. Weiner, a former New York City congressman, whose failed bid for mayor in 2013 was painstakingly chronicled in a feature - length documentary.

As I mentioned the other day, the new regulator in charge of speeding up the ETF approval process was formerly the lawyer for the Winkelvii twins, whose failed bid to launch a Bitcoin ETF has become a watershed non-moment for the faithful.

Not exact matches

(Facebook also tried to acquire Snapchat, whose parent company went public in an IPO earlier this year, with a failed $ 3 billion bid in 2013.)

In 2010, it was Randy Altschuler, whose failed Congressional bid was plagued by flawed strategy and Republican in - fighting, turning a prospect for victory into epic defeat.

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).

Yet so far, the Tioga Downs racino in the town of Nichols, whose proposal failed to win over the board in the first round of bidding, is the only contender.

In a somewhat unusual move, considering that they ran on opposing tickets in the November 2015 election, Gardiner's new town supervisor, MaryBeth Majestic, has named new Town Board member Laura Walls as her deputy supervisor, replacing Warren Wiegand, whose reelection bid failed by a handful of votes.