The neighbouring Electorate of Saxony also bid for the See of Mainz, but failed to secure it.

Harold, perhaps to secure the support of Edwin and Morcar in his bid for the throne, supported the rebels, and persuaded King Edward to replace Tostig with Morcar.

The situation improved in 1986 with a new Housing Development Board ( HDB ) tendering system, which allowed 7-Eleven to secure shops without having to bid too high a price.

A bid scandal surfaced in 1998 alleging that bribes had been offered to secure the city for the 2002 games location.

In November 2007, FT announced it had acquired a bid to secure 51 % of Telkom Kenya's shares from the Government of Kenya, but will have to bring about 11 % of shares back out onto the market three years following the deal.

In the aftermath of the defeat in his Olympic bid, he accused British prime minister Tony Blair of unduly influencing the result in order to secure the games in London.

It is common practice for cities to " bid " against each other with stadiums, tax benefits, and licensing deals to secure or keep professional sports franchises.

Schumacher's final outing in a Formula One car came in December 2007 when he participated in a test for the Force India outfit in a bid to secure the second race drive alongside Adrian Sutil.

This road is often a cause of major congestion to the town and is awaiting a decision of both a southern and northern bypass to the town, with the Harlow North proposal including the latter as part of its bid to secure planning permission for 8, 000 homes to the North of the town.

Wrexham's MP and AM indicated that they would prefer Wrexham Supporters ' Trust to secure the bid.

He attempted to launch a bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party, but was not able to secure enough financial or political support to launch a viable campaign.

There are fluctuations in tournaments ' bid levels and the tournaments that have bids in the first place, but the major tournaments have very secure bids.

In 2006, due to Thunder Bay's struggling economy, Peterson traveled to Toronto, in order to secure Thunder Bay's Bombardier plant's bid to " Build Canadian and Buy Canadian ".

Harriman barely managed to secure victory as Governor of New York and Roosevelt would lose his bid to become the New York Attorney General.

The Reclaim the Rovers fans ' campaign, which was launched in a bid to secure a local future for the club, has also secured a place for a Supporters ' Representative, on the new-look board after raising £ 100, 000 towards the final figure.

In a bid to secure new super-powered allies, the superhero Night Thrasher breaks into S. H. I. E. L. D.

He had been calling for a “ free Afrikaner republic ”, and vowed to take his campaign to the United Nations ' International Court of Justice in The Hague in a bid to secure this.

The fans ' consortium which attempted to take over the club at the end of the 2007 – 08 season was thought to be attempting to secure the future of the club through a Community Interest Company, but it was announced in November that a bid had been accepted from a man named Mike Ward.

The ARU's formal reasons for not supporting the Waratah's bid to secure Johns were his age ( 30 ) and injury history.

First broadcast by HBO during the months leading up to the 1988 U. S. presidential election, it purports to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the campaign of a former Michigan U. S. representative Jack Tanner during his bid to secure the Democratic party's nomination for the national race for President of the United States.

1994: Oregon needed a win in front of a hostile Parker Stadium crowd to secure a bid to the 1995 Rose Bowl, but they trailed 13 – 10 in the fourth quarter.

The daughter of warlord Ra's Al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, leads the evil Cobra Cult in search of Prometheus in a bid to secure his Ghost Key.

Prior to its successful bid in 1995, the city had attempted four times to secure the games ; failing each time.

According to the Department of Justice, Tenaris paid bribes through local agents to obtain competitor ’ s bid information, which it used to submit revised bids in order to secure tenders.

Judah at this time was a vassal of Assyria, but Assyrian power collapsed in the 630s, and in around 622 Josiah and the Deuteronomists, as the circle around him are called by modern scholars, launched a bid for independence expressed as loyalty to " Yahweh alone " and the law-code in the book of Deuteronomy, written in the form of a treaty between Judah and Yahweh to replace the vassal-treaty with Assyria.

As in 977, when Henry's bid failed, Boleslaus II swore loyalty to Otto III.

To retain control of Judea, he makes a bid to gain the loyalty of Jonathan Maccabeus, whom he permits to recruit an army and to take back the hostages that the Syrians are holding in the city of Acre.

Furthermore, he made a bid for the loyalty of Jonathan, permitting him to recruit an army and to reclaim the hostages kept in the City of Acre.

A bid of € 3 million from Dinamo Zagreb was accepted, but Pletikosa rejected due to his loyalty to Hajduk, the club's biggest rivals.

In a further bid to gird the fiscal foundation of the Party, Vare decided to extract " loyalty oaths " from the entire Philadelphia Republican organization.

In a bid to settle the issue by force, the cabildo sent 1, 100 troops under General Manuel Belgrano to subdue Asunción.

On July 1, 2005, the United States reportedly deployed troops and aircraft to the large military airfield of Mariscal Estigarribia as part of a bid to extend control of strategic interests in the Latin American sphere, particularly in Bolivia.

On August 11, 30, 000 Russian troops under Field Marshal Peter Lascy entered Poland in a bid to influence the sejm's decision.

In that year the Roman general Magnus Maximus would strip all of western and northern Britain of troops and senior administrators and launch a successful bid for imperial power, continuing to rule Britain from Gaul as emperor.

By the late 19th century French plans to colonize Madagascar were gaining momentum, leading British mercenaries to provide training to the queen's army in an unsuccessful bid to repel the French troops.

Zaire itself launched an ill-fated, pre-emptive invasion of Angola in a bid to install a pro-Kinshasa government, but was repulsed by Cuban troops.

US troops believed that Vietnamese traditions held the symbolism of the spade to mean death and ill-fortune and in a bid to scare away NLF ( Viet Cong ) soldiers without a firefight, it was common practice to leave an ace of spades on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and even to litter the forested grounds and fields with the card.

All available French forces, except 20, 000 troops under Bessieres that were chasing Hiller, now hurled themselves against Eckmühl in another bid to trap the Austrians and relieve their beleaguered comrades.

In a bid to force Duan Gui and his group out of their hiding place, Yuan Shu ordered his tiger troops to burn the Green Lock Gate ( Qing Suo Men ) of the Southern Jia De Palace in the Southern Palace.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

Being aware of the purchase of 35, 000 mortar bombs, the LTTE made a bid to the manufacturer through a numbered company and arranged a vessel of their own to pick up the load.

By emphasizing Roderigo's failed bid for Desdemona, and his own dissatisfaction with serving under Othello, Iago convinces Roderigo to wake Brabantio, Desdemona's father, and tell him about his daughter's elopement.

* In the Devil's Bridge variation, for the 1-card hand each player holds their own card on their forehead and looks at the other players ' cards, rather than their own, to bid.

It was therefore unwelcome news to him that Ernest Shackleton had announced his own plans to travel to Discoverys old McMurdo Sound base and launch a bid for the South Pole from there.

His father-in-law was a prominent Democrat in St. Louis, a factor that helped derail Grant's bid to become county engineer in 1859, while his own father was an outspoken Republican in Galena.

The task-oriented Taft was oblivious to the political ramifications of his decisions, often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912.

As Edward drew advisors, nobles and priests from his former place of refuge in a bid to develop his own power base, Godwin soon became the leader of opposition to growing Norman influence.

By 1326 Isabella found herself at increasing odds with both Edward and Hugh, ultimately resulting in Isabella's own bid for power and the invasion of England.

Ironically, Allan Loughead himself had planned to bid for his own company, but had raised " only " $ 50, 000 ($), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid.

On his fourth ( and successful ) bid for the presidency, the Communist Party appointed him as the alternate for its own candidate, the world-renowned poet Pablo Neruda.

Shilling has a substantially higher rate of occurrence in online auctions, where any user with multiple accounts can bid on their own items.

This is identical to the sealed first-price auction except that the winning bidder pays the second highest bid rather than his or her own.

In the middle of July 2010, reports from the German media emerged revealing that Villeneuve was putting together an entry bid to join the 2011 Formula One grid with his own team under the name " Villeneuve Racing ".

Sturm had made his bid in his own name, and the city wanted to protect itself in case Sturm either died or sold the teams before the 25 years ran out.

Charles of Valois was a powerful magnate in his own right, a key advisor to Louis X, and had made a bid for the regency in 1316, initially championing Princess Joan, before finally switching sides and backing Philip V. Charles of Valois would have been aware that if Charles died without male heirs, he and his male heirs would have a good claim to the crown.

The Englishmen bid farewell to a sorrowful Ignosi and return to the desert, assuring him that they value his friendship but must return to be with their own people, Ignosi in return promising them that they will be venerated and honoured among his people forever.

Upon learning his future as Parallax ( not knowing, however, that his future self's actions was the result of being possessed by a fear entity under the machination of Sinestro's future self ) and aware that the future needed him to return to his own time and allow future events to unravel in the way it was supposed to, young Jordan knew he must forget everything he learned from the present, and gave Rayner a copy of his ring to restart the Green Lantern Corps in a bid to undo some of the damages he knew he was going to make once he returned to the past.

Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 and planned to mount his own presidential bid for 1936.

Kalonzo Musyoka then broke away from Raila's ODM to mount his own fringe bid for the presidency, thus narrowing down the contest between the main candidates, Kibaki, the incumbent, and Odinga.

There, in a bid to save his own life, Pasqualino decides to gain the sexual favors of the obese and ugly female commandant ( Stoler ).

Handy had a stake in Pace's new business, but Handy's own words contradict this: " ... He Pace simply chose this time to sever connection with our firm in order that he might organized Pace Phonograph Company, issuing Black Swan Records and making a serious bid for the Negro market.