Most players bid low amounts between one and ten points in an initial bid in order to feel out the competition and to save points for other uses.

The initial bid was rejected by the ICI board and the majority of shareholders.

Repeatedly rejected by the company's board and management, Perelman continued press forward with a hostile takeover raising his offer from an initial bid of $ 47. 50 per share until it reached $ 53. 00 per share.

The company's initial capital was some 30, 000, 000 francs, but after eight years of work it ran out of money and a bid to issue 60, 000 bonds of 500 francs each flopped when less than half of the bonds were sold.

In the initial bid document it was identified that a new stadium would be needed, initially envisaged as being located in the Östermalm Athletic Grounds.

Powell was one of the founder members of the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) from 1954, despite initial concerns about her possible conflicts of interest ( she wrote for a newspaper that was backing one of the ITV franchises, but its bid was eventually withdrawn ).

Cost overruns with government projects have occurred when the contractor was able to identify change orders or changes in the project resulting in large increases in cost, which are not subject to competition by other firm as they have already been eliminated from consideration after the initial bid.

A few months later, however, Bill Daniels and Alan Harmon were forced to move to Los Angeles after their initial bid for a team in San Diego fell through.

An initial bid, considered “ hostile ” by the Telindus management, was made in September.

Contrary to statements that it would not raise its bid, on 23 May 2006, Deutsche Börse unveiled a merger bid for Euronext, valuing the pan-European exchange at € 8. 6 billion ( US $ 11b ), € 600 million over NYSE Group's initial bid.

ETMA's initial bid of $ 4 million was rejected by NTA, but the citizens ' group remained persistent.

In 2008, he submitted an initial bid of $ 1. 3 billion to buy the Chicago Cubs and was invited to participate in a second round of bidding along with several other potential ownership groups.

In January 2012, Cuban placed an initial bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but was eliminated before the second round of bidding.

" However, as the bidding process drew near many speculated that the sale would surpass $ 1. 5 billion, with Jon Heyman of CBS Sports reporting via Twitter that at least one bid in the $ 1-1. 5 billion range was placed in the initial round of the bidding process.

In his 1978 memoir, Watson declared himself responsible for all of Tate's injuries, characterizing Atkins ' initial confessions as exaggeration, jail house bragging, and a bid for attention.

After losing their initial bid for Bure, Wayne Gretzky, who retired the same season Bure was dealt to Florida, announced prior to the 1999 – 2000 season that he would have extended his career had the Rangers been able to pull the trade off.

Silverstein won the bid when a deal between the initial winner and the Port Authority fell through, and he signed the lease on July 24, 2001.

In 2002 Akhmadov claimed asylum in the United States but his initial bid was turned down after opposition from the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Having widespread community, business and political support, the initial North Queensland bid committee, chaired by McLean, worked tirelessly to produce a strong case for North Queensland's inclusion.

The initial winning bid of £ 2, 550 was found by eBay to be " unauthorised ".

The initial bid and the first revised bid were not accepted, but on 16 February 2006 NSG increased its offer for the 80 % it did not already own to 165 pence per share (£ 1. 8 billion or $ 3. 14 billion in total ) and this was accepted by Pilkington's major institutional shareholders, enabling NSG to compulsorily acquire by scheme of arrangement the smaller holdings of other shareholders, many of them being existing and retired employees, who had not wished to support the takeover.

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

As he talked about himself, time and again stuffing and dragging on his pipe, Steinberg began to relax and the initial hurried feeling grew faint and was dispelled.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at once.

At no time was it implied by the experimenter that the subject's initial reaction was deviant.

There was no implication made that their initial reaction ( absence of an arm-elevation ) was less preferred than the presence of levitation.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The initial setting of the availability table indicated that the index word or electronic switch was not available for assignment.

For the initial development an oxidation pond was constructed as shown in Figure 1.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

The study of altruism was the initial impetus behind George R. Price's development of the Price equation, which is a mathematical equation used to study genetic evolution.

The first is called the initial arraignment and must take place within 48 hours of an individual's arrest, 72 hours if the individual was arrested on the weekend and not able to go before a judge until Monday.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.