Some Tajiks would like to see their own man, Mohammed Fahim, make a bid for power.
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By June 1924, two men were in a position to make a bid for the summit.
Billionaire Richard Schulze will wait until after the holidays to make a bid for Best Buy.
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Rather than make a bid for power, Congress has adopted a wait-and-watch attitude.
If Usmanov reaches a 30% shareholding, he will have to disclose whether he intends to make a bid for the club.
However Ms Stewart said, as the gallery had no acquisitions budget, it was not expecting to make a bid for the items.
If a third party purchased BNP's remaining stake, it could join forces with other minority shareholders and make a bid for control.
Speculation is rife that NTL will next make a bid for Telewest.
Mr Netanyahu is expected to make a bid for the middle-of-the-road vote.
Euronext is widely expected to get clearance from the Competition Commission this week to make a bid for the LSE, subject to certain conditions.
That's because Klink, a one-time television reporter and four-term congressman, has decided to give up his House seat and make a bid for the Senate.
But Italy's transport minister Alessandro Bianchi has expressed doubts that the buyout fund will make a bid, saying their tender doesn't "give big signs of life".
But Novartis, ever the reluctant groom, has decided that it will not make a bid until it gets an engraved invitation from both Aventis and the French government.
Indeed, Barnes and Noble is often referred to as the perfect partner for Waterstone's, and has been expected to make a bid for the group in the past few years.
The parish council is yet to make a bid, Mr Searles said, but if it was to purchase the land a public consultation would determine what it would be used for.
After hearing Foye's appeal, based on the revised guidelines, judges Lord Osborne, sitting with Lords Woolman and Wheatley said he can now make a bid for release after serving four-and-a-half years.
And N'Zogbia, who plays primarily on the left, insists he is keen to stay in England - even if clubs from France's Ligue 1 were to make a bid to sign him.
On television on Tuesday morning, Flowers and Mark Winkelman , who was named chairman of Refco, insisted they planned to resuscitate the firm and possibly make a bid to buy Refco's securities-brokerage division.
Which explains why bankers close to Lloyds have been making very positive noises about the Co-Op's chances of winning the auction for Verde, even though the Co-op is yet to make a bid.
Many observers thought Verizon wouldn't even bother to make a bid for MCI because the company is doing well independently, and has done a good job organically growing its own corporate client list.
"There cannot be a rule that says if you have a representative on the board, you can't make a bid for the company, " said Lawrence Hamermesh, a professor at Delaware's Widener University School of Law.
The Reds are expected to make a bid for Birmingham right-winger Jermaine Pennant, 23, in the near future as they look to add to the new signings of Craig Bellamy, Fabio Aurelio and Mark Gonzalez.
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Part of this is due to hopes that Diageo or Pernod-Ricard will make a bid for one or the other (or both) as a way to strengthen their position in the lucrative American whiskey market.
That sort of thinking prompted him to peek outside the world of feeders and make a bid for Pennsylvania Crusher, a Broomall, Pennsylvania maker of coal-crunching machines sold to big utilities, with 80%-plus of that market.
Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.
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So will HeidelbergCement make a bid?
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"I think what the bid does show is that the club is in decent shape financially and that we were able to make a bid of that significance, " said Hughes, speaking after City's surprise home defeat by FC Midtjylland in the UEFA Cup.
Berlusconi, widely expected to return as the prime minister of Italy following parliamentary elections in mid-April, is calling for a group of Italian investors to make a bid for Alitalia and prevent it from falling in the hands of Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM.
Of course, it'll also become much more vulnerable to a takeover, and Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) is seen as a likely suspect to make such a bid.
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