Sentence examples for competed to get from inspiring English sources

But then he competed to get a Supreme Court clerkship.

They competed to get the story first, all the while striving mightily to get the story right.

Twitter's popularity soared after Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher competed to get the most followers, and Lady Gaga's 53.6 million Facebook likes bring people to that site.

New-economy Internet companies competed to get the public's attention and old-economy brokerage firms competed to invest the public's 401(k) assets.

Aware that Mr. Obama, shaken by the underwear bombing attempt, was closely following the hunt, agencies competed to get new scraps about Mr. Awlaki into the president's daily intelligence briefing, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst said.

State Senator Dale Volker, who calls himself "the keeper of the keys" for his control of the process that allocates new prisons, said in an interview that legislators competed to get prisons.

"It used to be that they were competing to get you to turn on the television.

It's all vertical integration: elite parents compete to get their elite kids into elite schools.

As students, they compete to get into the best graduate schools.

Growing up in that family, they obviously had to compete to get it".

They're more likely to brandish their debit cards now as they compete to get served".