Sentence examples for at challenger from inspiring English sources

A hefty share sale from its biggest backer caused a stampede for the exit at challenger bank Shawbrook, which fell 26p to 335p.

The iPad is by far the most popular tablet, and nothing has come to market that even hints at challenger status.

But with Isner out, Smyczek was the one left to turn the lights out on his country's biggest tournament, an unfamiliar experience for a player who has spent most of his career at Challenger events and qualifying draws.

BERLIN — The engineers at Challenger Mobile, a software company in Stockholm, worked for more than a year to create an Internet telephone system with the goal of selling digital voice service to homes and businesses in Scandinavia.

"They had this extraordinary opportunity to have their fantasy workplace in real life," said John A. Challenger, chief executive at Challenger Gray & Christmas, a Chicago job placement firm that tracks layoffs.

The Association of Tennis Professionals, which also conducted a less-than-successful experiment at Challenger level recently with the "no-let" rule, tried the format 13 years ago, when the idea was championed by Francesco Ricci Bitti, the president of the International Tennis Federation.

As singles players, they struggle to win matches at challenger-level tournaments.

"Basically, we verified that FlightScope used the same equipment at a challenger that they used at tour events," Bram Tukker, the ATP employee who did the background check, said in a telephone interview.

In May, glasses and eyebrows were raised when Samuel Groth, an Australian journeyman, hit an ace at a challenger event in Busan, South Korea, that was clocked at 163 miles per hour.

Mr Bowo's supporters cast ethnic and religious slurs at his challenger and his followers.

The only way to replace them is to mount a costly proxy fight — at the challenger's expense.