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The antiquities are then offered to collectors from various countries, generally through Internet auction sites such as eBay and specialized online stores. – Ambassador Vitaly Churkin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As this question of oversupply of energy contracted by distributors will carry on for the coming years, it (the auction) will be unnecessary... (Demand) ought to be weak. – Abradee President Nelson Fonseca Leite	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Very few gemstones have ever been sold for more than that, and it's setting the record price here in Asia for a gemstone in auction. – David Bennett	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In the last 24-48 months, the Chinese have become markedly more active and professional in foreign acquisitions. So investment banks now approach the Chinese in virtually every auction. – Jan Masek	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While we'd like to participate in the auction, it's a very awkward time for us, if somehow we get a faster close (of the TWC transaction), then we might. – Chief Executive Officer Tom Rutledge	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The current auction rules will likely need to change and potentially include a form of emissions standard in order to qualify for a contract. – Phil Grant	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This auction does not solve the long term problem in attracting new entrant large scale gas plant to the market. – Phil Grant	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a great auction, there's almost 400 figures from the vintage line from 1977 to 1985 which is a huge amount of both quantity and variety, there's also approximately 100 master replica items, helmets, blasters that were made off the original prop mold. So it's a large amount of 'Star Wars' items in one sale. – James Gallo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Any increase in free allocation would result in a reduction in auction volumes - so the impact would be less industrial buying and potentially more (industrial) selling but that would be offset with the reduction in (auctioning) volumes. – Trevor Sikorski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Delaware was a slave state, the jury was all pro-slavery and Samuel Burris was put on the auction block. He was examined like you do with animals. He was stripped down, his teeth were examined. – Robert Seeley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Treasury believes that postponing the auction for the 2-year note poses less risk for market functioning than postponing the 5-year or 7-year note offering. – The Treasury	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It vindicates the long fight by Mr. Koch to shine a light on the real problem of counterfeit wine in the auction market and hold people accountable. – Moez Kaba	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There's much more awareness, people all over Nigeria and Marketplace Africa today are looking towards art, and in fact Kenya has opened an auction house, Uganda's having an auction this year, so there is a bit of a domino effect in Marketplace Africa. – Kavita Chellaram	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There were three offers, two of them were excellent, (with machines) produced in Poland. And a third one. As for now there is no final decision, let's wait. This auction raises many doubts, questions being asked. – Beata Szydlo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is a bit of a risk-on sentiment, we also have auction concessions being priced in, particularly in the longer dated 10-year and 30-year maturities. – Ian Lyngen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What we can't have them do is round (the horses) up, to auction them or slaughter them, you know we won't stand for that. – Bill Miller	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The auction was extremely successful, the Einstein letters sold for more than we expected. – Marc Kruskol	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We would look forward to participate in what would likely be an auction at that point in time. – Tom Albanese	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a very different market that Auction is going into now and one that's gaining market acceptance just by the sheer transaction volume that they're experiencing. – Steve Powel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Last year we sold approximately $144 million of cars at Monterey, which is the single largest total for any collector car auction to date. This year we expect to eclipse that. – Ian Kelleher	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We would probably need six months, at least, after the first auction before the second would take place. – Brice Quesnel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One day I attended a livestock auction where a cross-breed steer was sold for more money than a big indigenous bull which I expected to fetch more. That won me over. – Anania Ncube	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's really an eclectic auction of a lot of items from Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Madonna, so many items to choose from pop culture history, we anticipate the entire auction could bring in somewhere between 2 and 4 million dollars. – Darren Julien	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
. Sotheby's will offer the egg at an auction on Thursday. It said it was estimated at 30,000 - 50,000 pounds( $ 76,410). In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. But it's very rare to find them intact as this one is, they're often reassembled from broken parts. They're often found in remnants of fires from early settlers of Madagascar, which indicates they were probably used for food, which has contributed to the bird's extinction. – David Goldthorpe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

The antiquities are then offered to collectors from various countries, generally through Internet auction sites such as eBay and specialized online stores.

– Ambassador Vitaly Churkin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As this question of oversupply of energy contracted by distributors will carry on for the coming years, it (the auction) will be unnecessary... (Demand) ought to be weak.

– Abradee President Nelson Fonseca Leite

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Very few gemstones have ever been sold for more than that, and it's setting the record price here in Asia for a gemstone in auction.

– David Bennett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the last 24-48 months, the Chinese have become markedly more active and professional in foreign acquisitions. So investment banks now approach the Chinese in virtually every auction.

– Jan Masek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While we'd like to participate in the auction, it's a very awkward time for us, if somehow we get a faster close (of the TWC transaction), then we might.

– Chief Executive Officer Tom Rutledge

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The current auction rules will likely need to change and potentially include a form of emissions standard in order to qualify for a contract.

– Phil Grant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This auction does not solve the long term problem in attracting new entrant large scale gas plant to the market.

– Phil Grant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a great auction, there's almost 400 figures from the vintage line from 1977 to 1985 which is a huge amount of both quantity and variety, there's also approximately 100 master replica items, helmets, blasters that were made off the original prop mold. So it's a large amount of 'Star Wars' items in one sale.

– James Gallo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Any increase in free allocation would result in a reduction in auction volumes - so the impact would be less industrial buying and potentially more (industrial) selling but that would be offset with the reduction in (auctioning) volumes.

– Trevor Sikorski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Delaware was a slave state, the jury was all pro-slavery and Samuel Burris was put on the auction block. He was examined like you do with animals. He was stripped down, his teeth were examined.

– Robert Seeley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Treasury believes that postponing the auction for the 2-year note poses less risk for market functioning than postponing the 5-year or 7-year note offering.

– The Treasury

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It vindicates the long fight by Mr. Koch to shine a light on the real problem of counterfeit wine in the auction market and hold people accountable.

– Moez Kaba

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's much more awareness, people all over Nigeria and Marketplace Africa today are looking towards art, and in fact Kenya has opened an auction house, Uganda's having an auction this year, so there is a bit of a domino effect in Marketplace Africa.

– Kavita Chellaram

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There were three offers, two of them were excellent, (with machines) produced in Poland. And a third one. As for now there is no final decision, let's wait. This auction raises many doubts, questions being asked.

– Beata Szydlo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a bit of a risk-on sentiment, we also have auction concessions being priced in, particularly in the longer dated 10-year and 30-year maturities.

– Ian Lyngen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we can't have them do is round (the horses) up, to auction them or slaughter them, you know we won't stand for that.

– Bill Miller

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The auction was extremely successful, the Einstein letters sold for more than we expected.

– Marc Kruskol

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We would look forward to participate in what would likely be an auction at that point in time.

– Tom Albanese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a very different market that Auction is going into now and one that's gaining market acceptance just by the sheer transaction volume that they're experiencing.

– Steve Powel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Last year we sold approximately $144 million of cars at Monterey, which is the single largest total for any collector car auction to date. This year we expect to eclipse that.

– Ian Kelleher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We would probably need six months, at least, after the first auction before the second would take place.

– Brice Quesnel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One day I attended a livestock auction where a cross-breed steer was sold for more money than a big indigenous bull which I expected to fetch more. That won me over.

– Anania Ncube

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's really an eclectic auction of a lot of items from Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Madonna, so many items to choose from pop culture history, we anticipate the entire auction could bring in somewhere between 2 and 4 million dollars.

– Darren Julien

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

. Sotheby's will offer the egg at an auction on Thursday. It said it was estimated at 30,000 - 50,000 pounds( $ 76,410). In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. But it's very rare to find them intact as this one is, they're often reassembled from broken parts. They're often found in remnants of fires from early settlers of Madagascar, which indicates they were probably used for food, which has contributed to the bird's extinction.

– David Goldthorpe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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