With two or more equally determined players, this can result in a " bidding war " where the attribute is driven up by increments to large sums.

The resulting bidding war for players led to widespread contract-breaking and legal disputes.

The two conference title games led to a hot bidding war between the clubs for players ; the Niners signed cornerback Deion Sanders from the Atlanta Falcons and also signed linebacker Ken Norton, Jr. from the Cowboys ; they defeated the Cowboys 21-14 in the 1994 regular season and then hosted the Cowboys in that year's Conference title game, with the Cowboys now coached by Barry Switzer ; the 49ers raced to a 21-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the first quarter and won 38-28 en route to Super Bowl XXIX.

Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800, 000 gold francs.

Soon a bidding war started, and Shancai was easily outbid.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

The leagues engaged in a bidding war.

In 1993, Sumner Redstone's entertainment conglomerate Viacom made a bid for a merger with Paramount Communications ; this quickly escalated into a bidding war with Barry Diller's QVC.

After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets, of University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract.

In 2001, UPN acquired Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell for their final seasons from The WB in a public bidding war between the two with producing studio 20th Century Fox Television.

In a bidding war with William Fox, Warner Bros. bought more First National shares on September 13, 1928 ; Jack Warner also appointed producer Darryl Zanuck as the studio's manager of First National Pictures.

Excitement was so high that a bidding war for the first machine broke out between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, the latter eventually winning and receiving serial number 001 in 1976 for a six-month trial.

The resulting bidding war for players led to widespread contract-breaking and legal disputes.

After the dissolution of the first coalition through the peace of Travendal and with the victory at Narva ; the Swedish chancellor, Benedict Oxenstjerna, attempted to use the bidding for the favor of Sweden by France and the Maritime Powers ( then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession ) to end the war and make Charles an arbiter of Europe.

Driving prices up with phony bids, they seek to provoke a bidding war among other participants.

If hired by Pantalone to protect his daughter from her many suitors, Capitano would set up a bidding war for his services or aid between the suitors and Pantalone while wooing her himself.

The Bucks won the coin flip, but had to win a bidding war with the upstart American Basketball Association to secure him.

He had already purchased Continental and lost a bidding war for TWA to Carl Icahn.

However, the song's commercial success prompted a bidding war for Raitt between Warner Bros. and Columbia Records.

A bidding war resulted in the final $ 1, 000, 000. 00 selling price.

In 1987, a bidding war ensued between several financial firms to acquire RJR Nabisco.

Montferrand selected the quarry contractor in March 1830, in a bidding war that reduced the column price from 420 thousand to 150 thousand roubles.

Released in November 1987, the EP Vampire Can Mating Oven preceded a major label bidding war.

Vainshtein, a former Paramount studio executive, became Jewel's manager and was instrumental in creating a major bidding war, which led to Jewel's deal with Atlantic Records and her subsequent appearance on the cover of Time, the first ever by an Atlantic artist.

Before the aquistion, there was a ' bidding war ' between the three shareholders Nestlé, Mead Johnson Nutrition and Danone.

This became a major problem as bidding wars between the ballclubs to land the best amateur players escalated signing bonuses.

**-The Public Transport Regulatory Commission has entered into an agreement with a private sector consortium, following a competitive bidding process, to develop a light rail system between the Jordanian capital Amman and nearby industrial city of Zarqa.

This sum itself may be all or a portion of the difference between the actual ( inflated ) payment to the company and the ( lower ) market-based price that would have been paid had the bidding been competitive.

The US government approved the original Pan Am's mail delivery contract with little objection, out of fears that SCADTA would have no competition in bidding for routes between Latin America and the United States.

Young eventually returned on October 7 or 8th at the Third Eye in Redondo Beach, California, and after bidding adieu to Greene and Stone ( Ertegün convinced the duo to release the band from production and management agreements ), the band divided its time between playing concert gigs and putting the finishing touches on its second album, ultimately titled Buffalo Springfield Again, produced by Ertegün himself.

In spite of the ensuing bidding war that emerged between major record labels in the aftermath of the album's release, Superchunk decided to stay independent, sticking with Matador Records for their second, just as critically lauded LP, No Pocky for Kitty.

In 1987, a bidding war ensued between several financial firms for tobacco and food giant RJR Nabisco.

The potential for cronyism ( for example, an alliance between political insiders and the businesses receiving subsidies ) can be limited with secret bidding for the subsidies or application of the subsidies following clear general principles.

The third is a treatise on the saint's miracles, written sometime between around 1254 and 1257 at the bidding of Blessed John of Parma, who succeeded Crescentius as Minister General.

The Cracker Jack Company was purchased by Borden in 1964 after a bidding war between Borden and Frito-Lay.

Because the multinational corporation is able to choose between a wide range of underdeveloped or depressed nations in setting up overseas factories, and most of these countries do not have limited governments, bidding wars ( or ' races to the bottom ') sometimes erupt between competing governments.

In that year a " bidding war " took place between Brøderbund and SoftKey, with the latter eventually acquiring TLC for $ 606 million.

At the end of 1902, a bidding war for players developed between the National and American Leagues.

After the sale of Eircell, Eircom itself was believed to be undervalued and became the subject of a bidding war between two consortia: the E-Island consortium headed by Denis O ' Brien, and the Valentia Consortium headed by Tony O ' Reilly, the chairman of Independent News and Media.

After a fierce bidding war between a number of Illinois cities, Urbana was selected in 1867 as the site for the new school.

Also in the article, Voight accused four-star General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Wesley Clark of having " shame upon him, having been relieved of his command " and said that Clark " has done their Obama camp's ' bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.

* Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary General of the United Nations, mistakenly called ' Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali by Ali-G. Boutros-Ghali clearly went so far as to participate in some of Ali G's notorious word games and providing the epilogue to the episode where, at Ali G's bidding, he tells youth viewers to ' enjoy the music of Bob Marley '.

In 1993, the US National Science Foundation, after a competitive bidding process in 1992, created the Internet Network Information Center, known as InterNIC, to manage the allocations of addresses and awarded the contract to three organizations: Network Solutions provided registration services, AT & T provided directory and database services, and General Atomics provided information services.

The Swedish CAA at the time, Luftfartsverket, announced a bidding process in 2003 for a contract to build a General Aviation terminal at the airport in order to improve the ground services provided for the general aviation customers flying to Stockholm and the Stockholm-Bromma Airport.

Nashotah House was founded by three young deacons of the Episcopal Church: James Lloyd Breck, William Adams, and John Henry Hobart, Jr., all recent graduates of General Theological Seminary in New York City, at the bidding of Bishop Jackson Kemper.

Under an agreement with the California Attorney General, over 20 overlapping stores in California were required to be divested and put up for competitive bidding.