Any bid made subsequently to an opponent's bid is known as an overcall or a defensive bid.

As a rule, it is inadvisable to make an overcall on two of a fourcard suit or to overcall with a notrump bid without a doublestopper in the suit bid by the opponent.

Moreover, a global bidding war has broken out for Indian brains.

If I controlled the Internet, you could auction your broken heart on eBay.

Nigeria has proposed creating stabilization funds, and, in the future, it will sell its natural resources in transparent, competitive bidding processes.

This program is conducted under a bidding process using a formula where farmers request a certain percentage of cost share for an improvement such as drip irrigation.

Nevertheless, there is growing evidence that, broadly defined, economic and financial crimes are increasing, most prevalently in sectors affected by rapid advances in technology, such as commercial activity over the Internet.

In conclusion, he said that the United Nations, which had undertaken a process of far reaching reform, had a moral duty to ensure that actions to promote human rights as a whole served only to advance the cause of human rights, everywhere, in all circumstances, and without any conditions, rivalry or paternalism.