16. But when Commerzbank sought to buy Landesbank Berlin, the capital's wholesale bank, earlier this year, it was outbid by the savings Banks association.
17. Most of what was and is on view had been bought by the fourth Marquess, a prodigious art collector with a fortune so vast he could outbid almost anyone else.
18. This is already happening today — eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google news) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you.
19. The Yankees may have been outbid for Matsuzaka, but they are already on the board in the winter race for more pitching, a competition in which demand always exceeds supply.
20. The disadvantage of such a system is that local filmmakers are crowded out of high-priced facilities aimed at the U. S. market and are outbid in the competition for local talent.
21. That friendship ended acrimoniously when Jackson outbid McCartney when the Beatles' publishing catalogue came up for sale in 1985 - essentially, Jackson now owned all of McCartney's 1960s songs.
22. It was introduced by an American charity called Conservation International, which realised the going rate for logging concessions was often so low that it could afford to outbid the foresters.
23. The rules have the merit of aligning the interests of bank employees with shareholders but European banks say they are being outbid by rivals when they compete for employees in Asia in particular.
24. The rules have the merit of aligning the interests of bank employees with shareholders but European banks say they are being outbid by rivals when they compete for employees in Asia in particular.
