| Both companies have been mentioned as possible suitors, but most analysts say that's wishful thinking. |
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| Ebookers admitted in September that it had been holding takeover talks with a number of potential suitors. |
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| Oinomaos had invited suitors to vie for Hippodameia by competing with him in a chariot race. |
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| In the show, a babelicious young stockbroker named Hayley is asked to choose a lover from a group of 20 masked suitors. |
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| Eager suitors are invited to write Rowland care of her maximum security penitentiary. |
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| She had held sway over a dozen eligible suitors, eventually marrying into a professor's family despite her own lack of education. |
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| She used the death of her mother to avoid the boys her own age, telling all would-be suitors that she had to take care of her poor bereft father. |
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| He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors. |
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| Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers. |
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| Since it was the day after the great ball, all the suitors and nobles with rank were still sleeping. |
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| After that, you may expect to be swarmed by suitors, but that is normal for a young duchess as you will be. |
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| Athena begins to make the suitors scatter like cattle stampeding from a hornet. |
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| However he hasn't counted on how far Bianca's suitors will go to gain her fair hand in marriage. |
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| Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping. |
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| Scylla had once been a beautiful girl pursued by many suitors before she was transformed to a monster. |
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| He expected that the suitors who would pursue his sister would be men of great wealth and status in Umbria. |
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| Penelope does not sleep much and prays to Artemis that she be killed rather than marry one of the suitors. |
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| There was an array of suitors and a close relationship with her cousin, David Scott Mitchell. |
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| As a result of the removal of romance from marriage, suitors are judged, not by their love for a woman, but by how well they can provide for her. |
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| He dissuaded many suitors from pursuing her by telling them she had consumption and wouldn't make a suitable wife for anyone. |
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| For prospective suitors keen to expand in Europe's largest economy, however, Commerz is sized just about right. |
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| But Blyth did not understand his suitors ' wholesale business, which distributes medicines to independent pharmacies. |
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| Bloomberg reckons T-Online, Tiscali and Terra Lycos could be potential suitors for the business. |
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| The bank found other prospective suitors, which ultimately jacked up the price. |
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| McKay emphasised Gallas' insistence on the get-out clause, allowing him to assess his prospective suitors. |
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| The company had already met with suitors interested in a buyout or strategic partnership, but could not find a good match on price or philosophy. |
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| Three suitors had kissed it, mounted their red roan steeds and ridden away. |
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| A business may still attract publicly held suitors without taking such measures, but it will be at a disadvantage at the negotiating table. |
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| Why limit yourself to dealing with a single lender, when there are so many eager suitors for your business? |
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| Portia laments how foolish all of her suitors are, trying to over think the puzzle. |
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| They are regularly approached by potential suitors but have resisted overtures so far. |
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| If you're one of the beautiful elite, summer is a fizzy whirl of suitors and intrigues and liaisons. |
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| I was attractive, at least that is what the suitors would say when they came with the intentions of courting me. |
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| They are rescued by their two suitors, both experienced cragsmen, who scale the walls of the castle and bring them back safely to France. |
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| How does a female tiger protect her young cubs amid the sometimes violent attentions of three male suitors? |
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| This was too much for three young gallants, themselves suitors of the young lady. |
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| In fact, the audience is very much like one of her suitors, left to comfort each other drunkenly while she gallivants with someone new. |
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| The goatherd helps the suitors get weapons, but the other herders stop him. |
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| Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed. |
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| I was not in the least bit interested in the dull suitors, with their hungry looks and weak minds. |
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| Penelope purposefully marched into the throng of suitors, looking for the familiar and somewhat exasperating figure. |
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| A problem for would-be suitors would be finding further cost-cutting and synergistic benefits. |
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| No, don't worry, I'm not about to argue that it's those with looks of glee on their faces and amorous suitors latched onto each arm. |
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| I particularly enjoyed the scene where Mitchum angrily dances one of Hayworth's would-be suitors right out of the bar. |
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| Aspiring suitors have to answer three ridiculous riddles of the sort that do the rounds in Dublin pubs. |
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| A dozen Hmong girls step daintily down to meet their suitors. |
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| One of the most interested suitors, sources say, is Bob Berney, an indie veteran and the co-founder of apparition. |
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| The theme of a pushy mum endeavoring to wed her daughters to rich suitors fits naturally into an Indian setting where arranged marriages have much scope for comedy. |
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| She forsook her suitors and renounced the comforts of her family home. |
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| It deals with two women who reject their suitors because they've decided they want to marry men who are more fashionable, affected and accustomed to courtly manners. |
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| The book contains a vigorous satire on the abuses of the old court of Chancery, the delays and costs of which brought misery and ruin on its suitors. |
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| A number of US online travel firms, including Expedia and Travelocity, have been named as possible suitors, as has Cendant, the owner of the Avis and Budget car rental chains. |
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| The daughters, meanwhile, leave their homes to marry wealthy suitors. |
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| The swineherd gives the bow to Odysseus and the suitors yell at him. |
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| I've seen widows forced to marry unwanted suitors who, aided and abetted by the law, usurped their deceased husband's assets, as well as their own lives and bodies. |
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| Indonesia, once a regional basket case, has also made great strides in cleaning up its bank and corporate sector, which are beginning to attract foreign suitors again. |
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| Though the young duchess was only ten years of age, it would not be long before she would be receiving suitors and entertaining marriage proposals. |
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| No matter that their little demonstration of affection had defrauded a couple out of their home, disappointed two rival suitors and left members of their family in debt. |
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| As in Homer, after further tribulation, he will eventually reach Ithaca, kill Penelope's suitors, and live with wife and son until a peaceful death in old age. |
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| The impasse is an invitation to Ferdinand's suitors to make a bid. |
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| For instance, bird omens are shown to Telemachus, Penelope, Odysseus, and the suitors. |
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| In addition to dominant animals subduing subordinates, the female fights off her numerous suitors if she is not ready to mate. |
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| Atalanta, also of Greek mythology, raced all her suitors in an attempt to avoid marriage. |
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| The next morning, Telemachus calls an assembly of citizens of Ithaca to discuss what should be done with the suitors. |
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| This parallel compares the death of the suitors to the death of Aegisthus and sets Orestes up as an example for Telemachus. |
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| This is best seen when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, begs Antinous, one of the suitors, for food and Antinous denies his request. |
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| By forcing their suitors to be earnest or sincere, the women psychodramatically circumscribe them. |
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| His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. |
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| There is a feeling he will be allowed to leave for a fee in the region of PS8 million, which will scare off the majority of suitors. |
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| Also at issue is the amount of NCUA assistance provided to suitors with a contention by the Utahans that East Coast CUs are favored. |
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| Sile will help three hopeful suitors choose three trendy outfits for one lucky lady. |
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| He and Pyle become friends and suitors of the incomparable Phuong. |
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| The audience at the CBS studios in Los Angeles soon warmed up and before long dozens of wannabe suitors then tried to mob the stage. |
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| However, she is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. |
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| Nobles engaged many of these to mount raids, or to pack courts of justice with their supporters, intimidating suitors, witnesses and judges. |
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| Numerous suitors from nearly all European nations sent ambassadors to English court to put forward their suit. |
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| The judges of the court were all those who had the right and duty of attending the court, the suitors. |
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| However, it is clear that Austen was genuinely attracted to Lefroy and subsequently none of her other suitors ever quite measured up to him. |
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| The rapid deterioration in Myspace's business during the most recent quarter had deterred many potent suitors. |
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| These courtesans danced, sang, recited poetry and entertained their suitors at mehfils. |
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| In 711, Visigothic Hispania was very weakened because it was immersed in a serious internal crisis caused by a war of succession to the throne involving two Visigoth suitors. |
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| Camelot had been awarded the first licence to run the National Lottery on May 25, 1994, by Oflot after beating off competition from seven other suitors. |
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| Within the Homerian saga, the suitors are constantly likened to cattle because, in the end, on Odysseus' return they will all be slaughtered by him. |
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| For example, Telemachus wishes for vengeance and for Odysseus to be home, Penelope wishes for Odysseus' return, and the suitors wish for the death of Telemachus. |
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| Edward Courtenay and Reginald Pole were both mentioned as prospective suitors, but her cousin Charles V suggested she marry his only son, Prince Philip of Spain. |
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