Sentences with phrase «world in a bid»

More than 2.5 billion plastic bottles — partially made from plants — are already in use around the world in a bid to replace petroleum as the fundamental building block of everyday plastics.

Plot: When a zombie plague ravages the globe, former United Nations worker Gerry Lane enters a race against time, sending him across the world in a bid to find the crippling pandemics origin.

This valuable golden book floats away, and Laylee would really like it back but the book's page's (known in the game as pagies) are alive and have spread themselves among numerous worlds in a bid to stay free of Capital B, although somehow what they have actually managed to do is get themselves trapped in cages.

The US is aware of this potential, and has instructed its delegates at multilateral development banks (MDBs) to promote access to and cleaner, more efficient fossil fuel usage in the world in a bid to reverse World Bank restrictions.

Not exact matches

BHP Billiton has moved to approve $ US43.2 million in funding to develop the first stage of the world's largest nickel sulphate facility in a bid to tap into the rapidly growing lithium - ion battery supply chain.

This has created an ecosystem in which two of the world's richest and fastest - growing companies are bidding against one another for hot investments.

Neytanyahu delivered a visual - heavy presentation Monday that claimed to prove Tehran secretly pursued developing nuclear weapons, in a bid to undermine support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 agreement signed with six major world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for economic sanctions relief.

Under Armour is spending $ 560 million to scoop up two fitness apps in what is the athletic apparel company's latest bid to compete in both the physical and digital worlds.

Huawei, the biggest telecom infrastructure maker in the world, can't bid for U.S. government projects or large U.S. telecom contracts.

Spear, senior vice president of operations for Quadrem, a Plano, Texas - based online marketplace for buyers and suppliers of products and services used in the mining industry, was in Rustenburg in late 2003 to convince local businesses to subscribe to Quadrem's service, which would allow them to bid online for purchase requests from buyers around the world.

Doerr is the best - known investor at Kleiner Perkins — and indeed, likely still the most famous venture capitalist in the world, having backed Amazon, Netscape, and Google in the 1990s, in a prescient bid that this Internet thing might amount to something.

TOKYO / BERLIN, April 25 - In a fresh bid to win its first major foreign arms deal since World War Two, Japan is proposing its P - 1 submarine hunter for a French - German project to develop a marine surveillance aircraft, two Japanese government sources said.

According to this theory, the family didn't want even the slightest hint of impropriety to affect the Sky bid — especially when there is enough attention already on the Murdochs» history with News of the World and the hacking of private telephone accounts, an affair that caused them to drop an earlier bid for the company in 2011.

Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»

We're the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don't bid properly.

China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd plans to invest 300 billion yuan ($ 47 billion) over the next five years in a bid to become the world's third - biggest chipmaker, the chairman of the state - backed technology conglomerate said on Monday.

Since the economy went into free fall, prompting companies around the world to slash employees in a desperate bid to cut costs, the expectations of those who managed to hang onto their jobs has shot through the roof.

With World Cup mania in the air last July, Murad Hemmadi talked with the Canadian Soccer Association about their stated intention to bid for the FIFA tournament for 2026.

LONDON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 - Comcast Corp would become the world's largest pay - TV operator if CEO Brian Roberts» $ 31 - billion bid for Sky Plc succeeds, more than doubling its subscribers and expanding its international presence as growth slows in its core U.S. market.

According to World Oil, the first sale held last year received $ 121 million in bids.

LONDON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Comcast Corp would become the world's largest pay - TV operator if CEO Brian Roberts» $ 31 - billion bid for Sky Plc succeeds, more than doubling its subscribers and expanding its international presence as growth slows in its core U.S. market.

After all, he's hardly operating in the high - tech world, in which an entrepreneur needs only a half - baked idea to ignite a bidding war among potential acquirers.

As for Ottawa, in 2010 it passed on the chance to fund Edmonton's World Expo 2017 bid.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai talks with CNBC's Jon Fortt at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain about global mergers and acquisitions on the heels of Comcast's bid for Sky.

The multifaceted Japanese tech giant is not letting a failed bid for T - Mobile stand in the way of its quest to become the biggest company in the world.

Those working on Romney's presidential bid who tried to take a cab or check out of their hotel post-election found that their campaign credit cards had been cancelled immediately following the candidate's concession speech, leaving them to pay their own way in the cold, dark world that is Obama's America.

When central banks around the world introduced stimulus packages, known as quantitative easing (QE) in a bid to stimulate spending, investment and growth, a key focus was the rate of inflation.

So, on Aug. 28, 2012, we launched from the northernmost continually inhabited town in the world — Inuvik, Canada — in a bid to become the first team ever to complete an unsupported, non-stop, record - setting voyage across the Arctic Ocean.

And in a post-Dodd-Frank world, you can't go to a bank and ask for a bid on $ 100 million of bonds.

United States Trump threatens to withhold support from countries who don't back U.S. World Cup bid, Toronto Star Former police officer charged in «Golden State Killer» case due in California court Friday, Reuters

The United States» joint bid with Canada and Mexico once felt like a lock but it is looking more vulnerable by the day thanks in no small part to the US president

Thirteen months ago when the United States launched a joint bid to host the World Cup with Mexico and Canada at a news conference on the...

In October, M12 and its venture partners kicked off a global competition called Innovate.AI in a bid to find undiscovered startups around the world working to transform the future through AIn October, M12 and its venture partners kicked off a global competition called Innovate.AI in a bid to find undiscovered startups around the world working to transform the future through Ain a bid to find undiscovered startups around the world working to transform the future through AI.

That is to say, these regulations are killing two bids with one stone: Appeasing EU regulators and, hopefully for Facebook, appeasing other angry lawmakers around the world who can't get their own regulations in place.

BHP, the world's largest miner, said in February it expected to receive initial bids for the operations later in 2018.

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

BHP, the world's largest miner, said last month it expected to receive initial bids for the operations in the June quarter.

The athletics brand acquired the app in 2015 as part of a bid to become the world's largest fitness information tracker.

Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, has taken a dive into the unknown on Friday, linking up with Microsoft in a bid to compete with Apple and Google in the fast - growing smartphone market.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's efforts to weaken the yen in a bid to stimulate economic growth and inflation in the world's third - biggest economy are likely to be relentless and successful, macro investment manager Mark Yusko told attendees today at ETF.com's second annual

And that two of these are not cities, but regions, shows that while the retail giant has clearly made this bidding process for its next headquarters an exercise in trying to extract the most generous tax breaks from municipalities, in a perfect world Amazon would plant «HQ2» in the nation's capital.

It's hard to believe that all the data necessary to manufacture, bid, pack, and ship the 200 + Million specs worldwide is being inefficiently managed at almost every company in the world with spreadsheets and PDFs.

Our live auctions feature in - room bidding, telephone bidding, mail bidding and integrated simultaneous online bidding to the world.

BEIJING China will form a powerful new competition and food safety regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price - fixing as the world's second - largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient.

America is too tough and racist to be living as an eastern christian now a days.You have to be white to be living as a Christian in US, in a bid to accomodate all the religions of the world, America has been a failure of its assimilation of Eastern Orthodox Christians in this country who are faced daily with intense bigotry, racism and total denial of their own existance.

It looks like the Pope is bidding fair to become «the Pope of Caritapolis,» who sees the whole world — in all its cultural, political, and cultural dimensions — as to be best grasped within the long history of «The City....

This paradox is developed further in the saga of the primeval king Yima, who assumes dominion over the world at the bidding of the highest God, Ahura Mazdah.

But the world deals with us in actu and not in posse: and of this bidden germ, not to be guessed at from without, it never takes account.

It was created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery bidden since time immemorial in God, and thus be a sign of it.

Of the 180 - plus countries in the world, many have governments that are overtly hostile to the Church, and media that do the government's bidding.

Religiously, I believe that Jeremiah was right in his faith in the utterly transcendent God who created heaven and earth, who moves history, and who bids us do his work in the world.