• The members have been asked to place each bid in order of preference.

    BBC: Bidding process keeps us guessing

  • First Group rail boss Tim O'Toole told the MPs Virgin's suggestions that it had financially "backloaded" its bid in order to outbid its rival was "flat-out wrong".

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Two-thirds of members attending the Unesco general conference from 25 October to 10 November will have to approve the bid in order for it to be successful.

    BBC: Unesco clears way for Palestinian membership vote

  • But the two companies have cooperated on this bid in order to unwind a complicated relationship, the result of an earlier acquisition, which left Comcast with a 21% stake in Time Warner's cable operations.

    FORBES: TW CEO Parsons Lauds 'Smart' Adelphia Deal

  • Thus, as productivity rises, as the profits that can be made from employing the newly more productive labour rise, so wages get bid up in order to gain access to those profits.

    FORBES: Putting Foxconn's Wage Rises in Context

  • Kaplan's article was a clear bid to rehabilitate Mearsheimer in order to advance his pre-Israel Lobby theory of realism in international affairs.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Mainstreaming anti-Semitism

  • In order to bid, you have to have with you a cashier's check or certified check for 10 percent of your bid.

    NPR: Housing Auctions Surge as Foreclosures Mount

  • In a bid to restore some order, new rules introduced on 1 January stepped up penalties for speeding, drinking and driving and using a mobile phone while behind the wheel.

    BBC: Busy road in Beijing (file image)

  • These licensees may declare a minimum threshold bid they would be willing to accept in order to sell their license.

    FORBES: Time For The FCC To Auction Off More Wireless Spectrum

  • Neither Scudamore, or any reprehensive from England's top division, currently sit on the 2018 board and Kenyon is keen to see relations thaw in order to help the bid progress.

    BBC: Kenyon calls for 2018 bid unity

  • The point is that any bidder could submit wildly optimistic and unrealistic forecasts for how much its TOC could increase its revenues in order to win the bid, and then get into lethal financial difficulties when actually operating the franchise on that basis.

    BBC: Why all the West Coast bids were wrong

  • He flew back the very same night in order to be able to bid on it.

    FORBES: Homo Numismatus

  • At the time Real were said to have wanted to sell Robinho in order to help fund a bid for Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo, which reportedly upset Robinho.

    BBC: Chelsea set to seal Robinho deal

  • Marsh, he says, solicited false quotes from insurers in order to pretend that the bid process had been competitive, while simply channelling business to insurers that promised it the biggest commissions.

    ECONOMIST: The insurance industry

  • More recently he said he would back a shotgun merger between the French firms Suez and the state-controlled Gaz de France in order to ward off a bid for Suez by the Italian utility Enel.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Financial expert, TV host, and Sun-In aficionado Suze Orman has a simple bit of algebra that she suggests using to decide if it makes sense to be part of the 250, 000-strong movement of Americans who are deciding to bid goodbye to their houses and good credit in order to recoup their losses and try again at some point (way, way, way) in the future.

    FORBES: When Suze Orman Told Me to Abandon My Mortgage

  • More recently he said he would back a shotgun merger between the French firms Suez (nyse: SZE - news - people ) and the state-controlled Gaz de France (other-otc: GZFCF - news - people ) in order to ward off a bid for Suez by the Italian utility Enel (nyse: EN - news - people ).

    FORBES: Sarkozy Throws His Beret Into The Ring

  • Having topped the marketmakers' bid, Milman got first in line to execute an order at market.

    FORBES: Free enterprise comes to Wall Street

  • The incident, and subsequent clashes, prompted the Kremlin to order a change of leadership in a bid to reduce the level of violence.

    BBC: Ingushetia profile

  • Independence came, or was won as in Algeria, and the ruling class in the Muslim world made a bid to establish political order and engage with tasks that Smith described.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • It probably won't be enough to change the minds of MCI's board, which likely had only entertained a bid from the struggling, number four regional phone company in order to attract attention and increase the pressure on number one carrier Verizon to make an offer.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Administrator Rob Sadler had previously set a deadline of 1200 BST on Thursday for the final offer from the Majeeds' SA Group to be accepted or rejected - having delayed winding up the club on Wednesday in order for the creditors to review that bid.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Crawley Town | Crawley are ready to start season

  • American rival Warner Music Group, which had been expected to make a counter-bid for EMI last year, has also attempted to restructure in order to stem declining compact disc sales and capture more digital revenues.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Now, with Qwest's new bid on the table, Verizon may be forced to up its offer in order to placate MCI shareholders.

    FORBES: Qwest's Desperate Deal

  • Chris Goodall, an analyst at the media research firm Enders Analysis, said the News of the World was the "sacrificial lamb being taken out into the desert and killed" in order to try to save the Murdoch empire's bid to take over UK broadcaster BSkyB.

    CNN: Murdoch's scandal-hit News of the World to shut down

  • Protesters had camped out on the roundabout in a bid to delay its removal but left after the county council was awarded a possession order.

    BBC: Leek supermarket opens after road layout concern

  • When the exchange is not on the national best bid and offer (NBBO), the mechanism here at the CBOE will flash that order to participants in the marketplace and allow those participants to step up to the NBBO.

    FORBES: Furthering The Options Flash Debate

  • While South Wales topped the table with a 16.9% drop in crime, the figures revealed a steep rise in violent crime, threatening to overshadow the government's bid to emphasise its tough approach to law and order.

    BBC: News Online

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