How To Use Bidding In A Sentence

That is, the Olympian Zeus 'ban on human creativity: which shows Zeus's intended bestialization of all mortal human individuals, by forbidding, not only the use, but the discovery of any universal physical principle, such as "fire," or, today, nuclear-fission power. LaRouche's Latest
It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
LADY GAGA is at the centre of a bidding war - to save tea from hot water.
The exchange rate between US dollar and Tajik somonis will be advised on request for purpose of payment for obtaining bidding documents.
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European diplomats and Croatian officials also claim Britain is doing Washington's bidding.
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
These will be used as criteria for choosing proposals from companies bidding for the contract to renovate.
So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The auction staff can also explain the bidding process. Times, Sunday Times
The two men ended up bidding against each other at the auction.
Bidding to close the sizeable gap between her and Cian O'Connor, she put in a determined effort.
They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
No climate of mutual respect will be fostered if the Federation is nothing more than a pushover ready to do the administration's bidding whenever asked.
Log onto the official Iditarod Web site iditarod.com, read the Idita-Rider rules on bidding, and mail or fax your completed form to the Iditarod headquarters. How To Buy & Sell just about Everything
So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established. The Last Harvest
He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question.
So she wit not a pig's head from a crustade Almayne, [A kind of pie of custard or batter, with currants] 'tis all one to me, an 'she will do my bidding. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
Five cottages were to be sold as one lot but the bidding started at £300 and rose slowly to £510 when the property was withdrawn.
Spurs have already rebuffed twice by after bidding 6m Downing two years ago. The Sun
With the development of bidding of construction project, it is very important to make stratagem analysis for the construction enterprises which make the best result in the competitory circumstance.
Urban blight and flight is transformed into bustle, bounty, and bidding wars.
When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
They are outbidding anyone who wants to buy a pharmacy.
Supervising the bidding, helping to select a builder and monitoring construction also demand time.
So far, though, with six days to go before bidding closes, offers have already topped 45,000 euros.
Legend has it that he threw the casket containing his old leader's heart into the enemy ranks, bidding the Bruce to lead him into battle one last time.
Ever since Goody, our twelve-year-old bichon frise, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, I have been compelled by pity and fear to do his bidding. Knowing Jesse
At the first stage of the bidding, seven bidders were shortlisted from the original fifteen.
We are thrilled that this first test of the market with Turkish Contemporary Art as a separate category on the international auction scene was so well received and attracted such enthusiastic bidding.
There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
Special lasers identify seismic faults in forbidding mountain ranges. Times, Sunday Times
Undoubtedly Ronald Dworkin will want to correct what seems like a clear error when he writes, "Only the most naïve theories of statutory construction could argue that such a result [forbidding action such as that taken by the University of California, Davis Medical School] is required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Bakke Case: An Exchange
His vocalness is of course nothing whatsoever to do with his financial interests in a company that is bidding for the ID contract of course. Ladyman prepares his post-Common career path?
It took nine months before enough information leaked out that council brought in a former judge to investigate the bidding.
There is something forbidding about him. Times, Sunday Times
The bidding model of quantity list is an international general model.
Barely a negative vibe will be emitted from any of the bidding nations, nor a single quote uttered which might seem remotely downbeat or pessimistic.
So too, wherever a man is suable by either of the actions called exercitoria and institoria, he may, in lieu thereof, be sued directly by a condiction, because in effect the contract in such cases is made at his bidding. The Institutes of Justinian
Williams, bidding for her fifth Grand Slam title and her first since 2001, overcame five set points in the tiebreaker.
Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation.
So a while they sat talking, all of them, and the squire and the sergeant aforesaid were not a little timorous of the adventure of making that stead unkenned their sleeping chamber; and to while away the time, their lords made them tell tales such as they knew concerning that place; and both they said that they had never erst come into the dale but a very little way, and said that they had done so then but trusting in their lords 'bidding and the luck of the Quest. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
In the painting the revolution's populist crowd is transformed by the painter into a common herd, a mob of grotesqueries, to be manipulated by the speaker to do his bidding.
The death's-head, a forbiddingly charismatic insect with a distinctive skull pattern on its thorax, has been sighted along the south coast at Arne, Dorset, and in Plymouth, Devon, in what is proving to be a vintage autumn for exotic migratory moths. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
Bidding at auction can be a daunting process as you go up against hundreds of other people for the same lots. Times, Sunday Times
Although China has laws and rules for government procurement and bidding, foreign executives said that much Olympic contracting is governed by neither.
But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god. The Bacchantes
Lavatory, to turn a Roman and leave the chayr and gout in his bare balbriggans, the sweep, and buy the usual jar of porter at the Morgue and Cruses and set it down before the wife with her fireman’s halmet on her, bidding her mine the hoose, the strum-pet, while him and his lagenloves were rampaging the roads in all their paroply under the noses of the Heliopolitan constabu-lary? Finnegans Wake
Together with his friend Nisha, Anand embarks on what may be his most dangerous missiontraveling tothe cold and forbidding worldof Shadowlandin his attemptto restore the conch to its rightful place, and his home to its original splendor. Shadowland by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Book summary
Perry is an architect who is bidding for a contract with an oleaginous millionaire.
Shortly after bidding ended, spokesmen for the two groups announced that the house ownership was officially transferred to the National Trust.
Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure.
The compound loomed in front of him, the cement walls austere and forbidding.
Replied the Shaykh, “I hear and obey the bidding of the Commander of the Faithful; but know, O Emir, that the road thither is long and difficult and the ways few.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It was unthinkable that any one save a thief and an out-right scoundrel, such by the way as were all of his business rivals and the men who refused to tote and carry at his bidding, should make a threat like that; worse than unthinkable, utterly, depravedly disgraceful that one of the house of Packard should resort to such devious and damnable practices. Man to Man
The hand opposite each player is their dummy, but they cannot look at it until after the bidding.
After following the auction for a week and not bidding, Beals, an Easton resident, snatched the piece of Plymouth syenite with just four seconds remaining, beating out bidders who had sought the famed rock since it was first offered on the Internet auction site a week ago. Archive 2005-11-01
Her measure prevents offshore companies from bidding for government contracts.
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
In the programme 'Buyer Beware', Primetime Investigates outlined some serious problems encountered by buyers, sellers and householders, including: bidding against themselves as estate agents make up fake prices to push up the price of a property, fake bidders being used in auctions, high fees being charged for services by property management agencies and 'gazumping', where sellers renege on a sale agreement and then sell for a higher price. Politics.ie
There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers.
A feeling which had most definitely not been reciprocated, she realised as she recalled with clarity the forbidding set of his shoulders as he had stridden away. Consultant Care
She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity. Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane
Disobeying the 19th-century "rule" laid down at Le Cercle de Linguistique de Paris (forbidding the presentation of any paper dealing with the origin of language), Waldron presents a theory, that is at once logical, biological, and psychological, showing how language naturally emerges from its prelinguistic antecedents (perceptual and behavioral) to become the key factor in the development of a distinctively human kind of intelligence and thought. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
At Hannah's bidding, I fly downstairs barefoot and beg Mr. Hakim to get us one of his mini cabs When I return, I find her standing at the rickety wardrobe, holding my shoulder-bag which has evidently slipped from its hiding place in the rush but not, thank Heaven, my precious copy of J'Accuse! The mission song
We wanted to buy the chairs but another couple were bidding against us.
She passed several salutary laws, one forbidding polygamy, another abolishing human sacrifices; her treaties with the Portuguese she faithfully observed, but never would acknowledge their supremacy -- never would allow herself to be called the vassal of any power. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
He started Baptist church school at the age of eight, in a forbidding Victorian grey brick building.
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After dinner, at his bidding, we went into the Prime Minister's study.
Bidding farewell to Ithaca and all that he held dear, he sailed away.
We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
In the absence of the Chinese official the abbot of the lamasery was almost supreme in authority, but my desire to personally interview him did not prevail against the stringent laws forbidding women to enter the lamasery except once, annually, for the purpose of worship; so my conferences were carried on through my Mongol friend, for such he assuredly proved himself to be. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
For me a town was a mysterious, rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone.
On the one hand the overcall would take up bidding space, or might lead to a profitable sacrifice; on the other hand ... To overcall or not?
In this paper, study on bidding decision - making in Inner Mongolia Transformation CO.
The politicians are bidding for our favor by making wild promises that they can't keep.
The bidding is over and partner tables their dummy. Times, Sunday Times
We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding.
The consortium bidding for the collapsed retail chain sees food as crucial to its survival. The Sun
As is commonly the case in willingness-to-accept auctions, they found that median bids were relatively high in the first bidding round and generally trended downward as the experiment progressed.
And a few seconds before bidding cheerio, a friendly requisition is placed - your contact number, please.
Vulnerability is very important for deciding the line of defensive bidding.
Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding. George Washington’s First War
It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution.
The matter presseth, and will brook no delay: and we affy ourself in you, Lady, as a woman obedient to the Church, that you will observe our bidding. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
I've got a decent collection of passiflora, and there's usually a run of a few weeks where people go simply nuts bidding on plants, along with a few weeks on either side of that where bidding isn't fevered, but still steady. Archive 2009-06-01
Talking with him, I realized that he has spent an enormous amount of time in the outdoors and he loves it, but when I asked him whether he did the bidding because he wanted to save these lands from exploitation by the oilers, he responded, I wasn't motivated to protect land. Subhankar Banerjee: Who Is Tim DeChristopher? From Coal Belt, Through Mountain Trails, on Route to a Prison Cell
We wanted to buy the chairs but another couple were bidding against us.
What is there to prevent free riders from bidding the price up excessively high, as they've done in other countries?
The solution was a clause forbidding the government from acting in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Because the question was so kindly expressed, it took her several moments to realize that this was the rude question that he had asked at her bidding.
They had sparked a label bidding war with the first track they ever wrote, Letting Go, after MySpace bosses heard it and made them their Featured Artist of the Week. Undefined
Angry mums and dads say the council is a killjoy for putting up signs forbidding ball games on a green between Overbrook and Bevisland.
He was commissioned by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to organise the event, which will create a cultural network of events in each of the 12 bidding cities.
October, following an epic competitive bidding process dating back to former Governor Pataki, the Patterson administration gave Delaware North the right to operate a "racino" -- a racing track-cum-casino. Home | The New York Observer
Themes of kids at play and sinister, forbidding landscapes remain, processed through a computer and enhanced by found sounds and distorted, provocatively repetitive tone patterns.
Then the servant cut short my thoughts, and led us to the bishop, bidding me unhelm first. A Thane of Wessex
As the day continues, bidders become bolder and bidding wars lengthier. Times, Sunday Times
The death's-head, a forbiddingly charismatic insect with a distinctive skull pattern on its thorax, has been sighted along the south coast at Arne, Dorset, and in Plymouth, Devon, in what is proving to be a vintage autumn for exotic migratory moths. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
During the 5th century BC, the Athenians organized what they called a purification law for the island, forbidding the burials of the dead on it. American Chronicle
Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
And though most students may pour scorn on those who peel themselves out of bed at some ungodly hour to do the bidding of some midget cox, one must admire their strength.
We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
In the early '90s, an informal jam session with fellow power popster Jon Brion and a couple of other musicians somehow led to a major label bidding war -- for a band that didn't yet exist. Tony Sachs: Author (Still) Unknown: The Brilliant Music and Star-Crossed Career of Jason Falkner
Interest from the world's major food companies in bidding for United Biscuits has been muted. China's Bright Food Considers Buying U.K.'s United Biscuits
We assume for simplicity that the female will pair with one of the two bidding males.
Will the Council proceed undaunted from the mild and conciliatory Article XI to the firmer Article XV or the forbidding Article XVI? The Sino-Japanese Incident in Relation to the Problem of Disarmament and International Security
The Spirit washes over us, enlightens us, breathes into our souls, descends without our bidding, sets us on fire.
He is an architect who is bidding for a contract with an oleaginous millionaire.
'Twas I that saved her and snatched her from beneath thy sword at the bidding of her father Zeus; for she his child must put on immortality, and take her place with Castor and Polydeuces in the bosom of the sky, a saviour to mariners. Orestes
I replied that, as he had treated us so scurvily, even forbidding his people to sell us any food, if he did not bring us a fowl and some eggs as part of his duty as a chief, he should receive no present from me. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
The monarch, better known as Aethelred the Unready due to his difficult reign, was known for using bands of Scandinavian mercenaries to carry out his bidding. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Because it might scare off the two mining companies you have bidding for all that taconite. Heaven’s Fury
Since Mars is also transiting in Scorpio, he will serve as her knight executing her bidding. Gahl Eden Sasson: Venus Retrograde in Scorpio: A Hell of a Time for Midterm Elections
Maida came to her feet, giving Aislinn a gentle caress across her cheek, and bidding them both adieu slipped out of the room. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
This company selected through global bidding firms for the airside and landside work and the passenger terminal building.
You can't unteach him, R'shiel, and he's done the Overlord's bidding. HARSHINI
They are bidding to become the first 'manband' champs. The Sun
The trendy interior is quite chilly looking and a little forbidding, but the stylists are the absolute opposite - warm and relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
She is an ex-con who served nine months in the forbidding maximum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
No – the American player with the South hand passed, and the Swiss or Monegasque player with the West hand opened the bidding. Team Monaco win the Spingold
The raft has so far attracted 54 bids and the price has reached $15,099.99 with one week of bidding remaining.
The vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us. Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail.
And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades.
Frankie and Wes left the party rather abruptly after that, bidding hasty goodbyes and hurrying out to the car.
When your novel comes out, publishers will be clamoring for your oeuvres de jeunesse, you know, and your blog may well be the subject of heated bidding! From Blog to Book « Tales from the Reading Room
Sunday dawned grey and forbidding as clouds hung low over Lough Talt, clinging ominously to the hilltops around the lake.
Fagging was the enforced tradition whereby younger students would do the bidding of senior students, be their freaking slaves as it were.
The department is trying to ensure fairer competition among firms bidding for government contracts.
The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world.
Thus, for example, where LU, in the story of the sons of Nechta Scene, simply mentions 'the withe that was on the pillar,' LL explains that the withe had been placed there by the sons of Nechta Scene (as Cuchulainn placed a similar with in the path of the Connaught host), with an ogam inscription forbidding any to pass without combat; hence its removal was an insult and a breach of _geis_. Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
For doing the Prime Minister's bidding, he was promoted to become her illustrious speech-writer and the person who constructed the words that she used throughout the last campaign.
A catch-all clause forbidding the award of the cup to anyone wearing a white shirt would be more sincere.
Lo! all is ready and they are bringing at thy bidding from the spoils of Troy garniture to put upon the dead. The Trojan Women
Three miles offshore the mountains heave into view, stark and forbidding, reaching up to forested heights. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
However, Germany has insisted it cannot bend its laws forbidding supplying evidence that could incriminate someone facing execution.
MoD policy is that its teams must obtain information from potential suppliers on bribery, corruption or misconduct and decide whether to exclude them from bidding. Times, Sunday Times
The sealed bidding documents should be submitted to the place of Bidding Opening before the deadline.
After all, if 75% of buyers get the first house they bid for, who were they bidding against?
Buyers are "pickier," he says, but they are still bidding aggressively when they find what they want. Regional Apartment Players Hunt Deals
“We hear and we obey,” answered they and turning back to their braves did his bidding and spread themselves about the sides of the valley in the twilight forerunning the dawn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He spoke a word of conjuration and the creature stood before him, ready to do his bidding. Masked
Following a petition of some west-country weavers, an Act was passed in 1702 forbidding the payment of wages in truck.
In short, a wide range of eligible entities will compete for grants and loans through a bidding process managed by the Department of Commerce's NTIA and the Rural Utilities Service ( "RUS") of the Department of Agriculture. Xchange magazine Articles
On the next-to-last day of bidding, he was looking at several solid offers, the highest at $28 million.
Once I made a half-hearted suggestion about bidding farewell to Blowitz, who expected me to get out at Vienna and might wonder where I'd got to; Willem gave me a slantendicular smile and said Kralta would send him a note. Watershed
Pope Innocent thundered angrily in letters, specifically forbidding the Crusaders from attacking Zara.
Then, when the leading tongues of the guns had flashed out, and human life, even the life of dogs, had yielded to the demand of her cause, the last vestige of her dreaming had been swept away, and she told herself it was murder, _murder at her bidding_! The Man in the Twilight
So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
With the sale ending on Monday, bidding was hotting up yesterday for a chance to own a bit of theatre history, plus a certificate signed by Sir Alan to confirm that the item was used in the production.
NAMBLA has nothing to do with homosexual marriage: they are a pedophiliac organization, and have nothing to do with the basic injustice of forbidding same-sex couples tomarry. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
Beijing was bidding to bring the world's finest athletes to a city with very bad air pollution.
Bidding goodnight to Francine, John and I set off in the dark to find both quinzhee and tent. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Article II does not grant the Executive unlimited authority to defend the nation in contravention of duly passed Congressional legislation forbidding specific behaviours Matthew Yglesias » Leave Health Care to the States?
We are thrilled that this first test of the market with Turkish Contemporary Art as a separate category on the international auction scene was so well received and attracted such enthusiastic bidding.
Too many entrepreneur may enter the software industry and end up bidding profits below zero economic profits causing submarginal businesses to drop out of the industry. Roll Over, Ricardo, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
they came at his bidding
In March, Mayor Bloomberg issued an executive order that would require defense lawyers for so-called indigent defendants to be selected by a competitive bidding process. Regional Watch
It does not provide us with the looked-for explanation of what distinguishes an autonomous agent from someone who exercises her authority at the bidding of external powers.
Tall towers, exactly square and equally bare of carving or machicolation, stood at intervals along this forbidding defence and flanked its curtain. The Path to Rome
British distributors are currently involved in a bidding war for the film.
Forbidding the critic to prescribe is itself a prescription. There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism
Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611. The Biographical Fallacy
The draft law requires an open bidding process and would establish which foreign countries are eligible to work in Iraq.
They replied, “Do us no damage, for we accept thee as Sultan over us and will not anywise gainsay thy bidding.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
With an inhibitive gesture to my friend, "Mr. Soames," I said emphatically to the devil, "is a Catholic diabolist"; but my poor friend did the devil's bidding, not mine; and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties
Security fears weigh on Iraq's 2nd oil auction oil companies with its mother lode of oil met with mixed results Friday, with only two fears in the country as they began bidding Friday on the biggest stake in today won the contract for one of Iraq's "supergiant" oilfields, as part of a two-day auction intended to boost dramatically the WN.com - Articles related to Iraq premier opens auctions for 10 oil fields
Together they constitute an unhackneyed commentary on a creative force who contrived to remain both forbidding and inescapable.
Members of the tender committee or project leaders usually had set up their own men as the winners of the tender before the bidding even began.
The catted chimneys were of logs plastered with clay, or platted, that is, made of reeds and mortar; and as wood and hay were stacked in the streets, all the early towns suffered much from fires, and soon laws were passed forbidding the building of these unsafe chimneys; as brick was imported and made, and stone was quarried, there was certainly no need to use such danger-filled materials. Home Life in Colonial Days
One long narrow hand waved me on to my own chamber, bidding me hurry, while he continued to peruse himself in the mirror. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Bidding for the glove is expected to start at $6,000; for the gates, at $20,000. 2009 February 19 « Scavenging
He acted on a gut feeling and stepped in to pay £5 for the dish, outbidding a woman who was trying to haggle the stallholder down to £1.
The most concrete observation I have of my ungraceful exit was the sign on the gatepost forbidding the imbibing of alcoholic beverages in the park by penalty of five hundred pounds.
The meanness surfaces as he becomes more successful - his moustache, initially the affectation of a hick, becomes minatory, even forbidding.
Iraq sparked a scramble for lucrative oil contracts in June, when Shahrastani opened bidding to 35 international companies for long-term contracts to redevelop six oil fields.
Once I found them, I would set that inner rage free to do its bidding.
At her bidding, yesterday's service at Westminster Abbey was set around Faure's Requiem.
At her bidding the servants lifted Rachel from her bed to arrange her sheets.
She found that she could not think straight, for her mind kept returning to the forbidding trees - unfriendly reminders of the peaceful days of her childhood.
So it seems only right and proper to squirm into a drysuit, don an aqualung and slip through a dark, forbidding hole in the frozen waters at Tignes-Le-Lac to avoid the blizzard conditions.
York City will be bidding to end Hereford United's unblemished record against bottom-six clubs tomorrow.
So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have “resurrected” other patients who were lost in the void. Exploring the Noir and the Grotesque
Even if the vote is held, it is clear that Washington continues to arrogate to itself the ‘right’ that it has claimed since 1914 to intervene and depose any Haitian government that fails to do its bidding.
The pictures that mysteriously effloresced from the pixels were forbidding yet magnificent, and as they glowed from the machines the planet Mars seemed to enter the laboratory, and the enchanting speculations of the Italian Schiaparelli with his canali and the American Lowell with his canals vanished the way dew departs with morning sunlight. Space
You can keep an eye on everything you are bidding on by visiting your members area and selecting the "bidding" page.
The monetary sector as a whole can not gain balances by bidding for deposits.
Which, like as in the first years of their childhood they make much and be fond and proud of such ornaments, so when they be a little more grown in years and discretion, perceiving that none but children do wear such toys and trifles, they lay them away even of their own shamefastness, without any bidding of their parents, even as our children when they wax big, do caste away nuts, brooches and dolls. English Literature for Boys and Girls
Or from my Baptist upbringing, if during a business meeting (a meeting open to all members, usually after church, and with final authority on all matters dealing with the church) I had become upset enough to get the police involved, and was charged with and again plead guilty to a misdemeanor after consulting counsel, would the court approve forbidding me to practice my religion for the balance of mylife? The Volokh Conspiracy » Seventh Circuit En Banc Argument in the Second Amendment / Violent Misdemeanants Case (Skoien)
The following year he came up short again, this time finishing runner-up to his opponent in the bidding to own the new expansion.
What can be learned from this episode is that professional people in charge of law enforcement don't have to do the bidding of their masters when it comes to wrongdoing.
Yet here he was, back again, once more bidding farewell to touring. Times, Sunday Times

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