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bidding

(= command) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something a request to be present they came at his bidding (= bid) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

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Simple sentences

Is anyone else bidding?
Klava is bidding farewell to her husband.

Movie subtitles

In honour of the promotion of the president. and his journey to the residency town, his fellow councillors. are bidding him farewell at a ceremony at the town hall.
Well, if there's not gonna be any more bidding, I might as well quit.
Jack, i've just seen dawker. He says if you want to go about 6,000, blow your nose once. When you blow it the second time, he'll take it as a signal to stop bidding altogether.
Who's doing the bidding?
Until then, I must do his bidding.
Haven't I seen him, sitting beside the hardened sulphur pit. playing his weird horn, as if to lure the monster. back from death to do his evil bidding.
I am here at the bidding of my cousin, the Mandarin, Mr. Chia.
You mean to say you fellas have been bidding on that property?
How did I know they were bidding on that property?
How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person at our great bidding?
Phillip's bidding the world a temporary farewell. I'm driving him to Connecticut.
It was as if we were bidding farewell to each other across some invisible highway.
But moved by your beauty, I shall grant you the favour. of bidding him farewell.
You needn't start the bidding.
I don't understand this bidding.
Let's do over the bidding.
But we have to know what he's bidding.
Now the bidding's over. That's enough.
You're making an exhibition of yourself. a girl like you, bidding for a slave before these people.
What are you bidding against me for?
You're bidding against me.
I wasn't bidding for myself. I was bidding for a lady and she went home to get her money.
Will you do me a favor by keeping the bidding open?
I'll be glad to keep the bidding open for you lady.
Now, who'll start the bidding on this?
Who is bidding? Such a hand.
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.
You didn't sound that way last night, bidding against me.
Phillip's bidding the world a temporary farewell.
I have no intention of bidding.
Setting up a new prince or bidding farewell to the old one?
Now, who will open the bidding for me at L10,000?
I think it would be easier, sir, if we were to conduct the bidding in pounds sterling.
The bidding is against you, sir.
So the bidding rests at L50,000.
First, the unthinking, the birds of the air, the animals of the forest, then the weaker of men shall all do my bidding.
Jonah did the Almighty's bidding.
He's bidding his neighbors farewell.

News and current affairs

The bottom line is that Uribe thought Santos would do his bidding as president, and Santos is convinced that his (high but declining) popularity is of his own making, not borrowed from Uribe.
One need only recall the bidding for Emcore or Firstgold.
After all, people who fear losing their jobs may seek greater economic security by investing in real property in their own wealthy country, bidding up prices in the process.
By succumbing to fear Americans are doing the terrorists' bidding: unleashing a vicious cycle of violence that may result in a permanent state of war.
After the US stymied their demands for a greater say within the Fund, they now find that the organization has been doing Europe's bidding.
Because bidding and private buying would not be permitted, available organs would be distributed to the next in line - not just to the wealthy.
Americans, for their part, must accept that a strong Europe will not be content to simply do America's bidding.
In another episode, members of the Mexican Federal Police are seen assaulting a drug lord in his hacienda, with the implication that they are only doing the bidding of a rival dealer.
But the only thing that Russia appears to be concerned about is that, whatever successor regime emerges, it is willing to do the Kremlin's bidding.
Any political force that tries to curb the bidding by promising only what it can deliver is doomed to defeat.
But what that really means is that Russia will have to choose a man Putin has hand-picked to do his bidding.
Members of the army, the security services, and government officials are all balking at doing the bidding of the Yanukovych clique.
Another interpretation is that people are saving a great deal, and that all this money is chasing investment assets, bidding up prices.
Nigeria has proposed creating stabilization funds, and, in the future, it will sell its natural resources in transparent, competitive bidding processes.
Even at the end, when the United Nations Security Council voted on Gaza, Bush was happy to humiliate Condoleezza Rice at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's bidding.
But success in fighting corruption entails more than just good procurement procedures (avoiding, for instance, single-source non-competitive bidding).
By contrast, the weak national Iraqi defense forces are believed to be doing the bidding of the Shia majority.
Constantinescu's government promised to close the gap between Romania and other postcommunist countries bidding to join the EU.
Moreover, a global bidding war has broken out for Indian brains.
Leung became China's man in Hong Kong, responsible for doing the Chinese government's bidding - including taking an uncompromising position against pro-democracy protests by students and intellectuals.
In our own time, air travel has become much cheaper, but airlines lose money; telephoning is no longer unaffordable, but the telecommunications companies lost fortunes by over-bidding for mobile telephony rights.

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