Sentence examples for commercial contender from inspiring English sources

When a BBC show wins – as when Strictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor last night – it merely reflects the fact that the commercial contender has faltered in the ratings, as Simon Cowell's karaoke show did last year.

He gave a 2012 TED Global talk about it but but despite several companies being interested enough to start a Li-Fi consortium, the technology is still not a commercial contender.

(Interscope) and the Dave Matthews Band's "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" (RCA), all strong commercial and critical contenders.

The Mature-rated Bayonetta 2 isn't going to be a big-seller like the all-ages Mario Kart 8 – the first game, which was available on both the popular 360 and PS3 platforms, didn't do two million copies – and the collaborative Hyrule Warriors, a mash-up of Zelda characters and Dynasty Warriors gameplay, feels more clique contender than commercial champion right now.

Of the newer electrocatalysts, nitrogen/metal-functionalized carbons and composites are emerging as possible contenders for commercial PEFCs.

In recent days, President Obama has made commercials for Senate contenders in his home state of Hawaii and in Connecticut.

This firm (which already arranges $20m journeys to the space station, on board Russia's Soyuz craft) is offering trips with whichever X-Prize contender first starts commercial operations.

Walter Mitty is a home run: commercial holiday picture and Oscar contender.

Until 2008, however, they had not been considered serious contenders for the commercial production of photovoltaic (PV) power because their power conversion efficiency (a measure of their effectiveness at converting light to electricity) had typically been less than 6%.

But the commercial strength of this year's contenders, with seven of the nine best picture nominees breaking $100m at the US box office, appears to have re-energised the audience, as has the presence of this year's host at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Seth MacFarlane, director and voice star of Ted.

For example, "Her" was made and financed by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Several of the nine best picture contenders have enjoyed commercial success, including "Gravity," which has grossed more than $256 million in the United States and Canada so far and is expanding to 900 theaters nationwide this weekend to capitalize on the buzz.