Sentence examples for a competition when from inspiring English sources

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"It feels more like a competition when it shouldn't be a competition.

What does it feel like at the end of a competition, when you have proven yourself so much stronger than even the very strong people around you?

After graduating in computer science he went straight into the RAF, winning a competition when flying a Jet Provost, and he was ranked a top-performing student and selected to become an instructor.

The writer in the group, Takuhi Tovmasyan, talked about how she was gruffly banished from a piano recital hall after winning a competition, when teachers learned her last name, which is plainly Armenian.

We found that people were more likely to treat their goal pursuit as a competition when they were near the end (vs. at the beginning) of their individual goal and thus prioritized relative positional gain (i.e., performing better than others sharing similar pursuits) over making objective progress on their own goal, sabotaging others when they had the opportunity to do so (Studies 1 3B).

And on numerous occasions Pentagon auditors have caught officials writing bogus justifications for avoiding competition claiming, for instance, that only one firm can do the work when clearly others can; or saying the need is too urgent to wait for a competition, when it is demonstrably not.

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In a static competition, the locations and characteristics of competitors are known in advance and assumed to be fixed, but in a dynamic competition when a firm loses its market share to a new competitor, it will mostly change its policy.

The programs are demonstrated in simulation, on ground hardware and then in a final competition when an astronaut runs the student software aboard the ISS.

On an August afternoon in 1984, Linda Marie Baltazar Pasnick, a 27-year-old aspiring model, was running errands before a fashion competition when she pulled into the drive-through at a Der Wienerschnitzel.

"But entering a sporting competition when you've not been brought up in a sporty or competitive environment can be daunting".

This may be important when training sessions contain physically demanding bouts or in a swimming competition when the swimmer has to participate in a number of events in a very short period of time, e.g., within 30 60 min.

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