Sentence examples for competed to solve from inspiring English sources

A week before the Sept. 11 tragedy, Mr. Juarbe, 35, was the winner in an eight-part game show on the Fox network in which 10 contestants, chosen from 3,000 applicants, competed to solve a fake murder.

For about 10 years now, there has been an arms race in the mobile payments space as companies have competed to solve this difficult problem: How do you make sending money as easy as sending a text message?

New Bitcoins have to be "mined", meaning users can acquire them by having their computers compete to solve complex mathematical problems (the winners get the virtual cash).

The Small Business Innovation Research programme, as it's known, gives small businesses the chance to compete to solve tricky government problems.

It is responsible for four of the top 10 games played by Facebook users worldwide, including Who Has the Biggest Brain? in which players compete to solve maths and memory problems.

In literary terms, S. resembles a mash-up of Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, which consists of a fake literary text with critical apparatus, and AS Byatt's 1990 Booker prize winner, Possession, in which academics compete to solve a literary mystery.

When commerce and legislation compete to solve a problem, commerce usually does a better job.

Instead of dispensing anonymously written wisdom as on such sites as Ehow and How2.com, ExpertCentral fields a handful of experts competing to solve your problem.

My hope is that rather than run business-plan contests and hackathons, our universities will start competing to solve the Grand Challenges.

Miller's intuition, backed by approval and funding from a number of investors and communications giants, is that people are competing to solve the wrong problem in the comsat world.

"Mining is like a race occurs every ten minutes where participants from around the world all compete to solve a math puzzle, when someone finds a solution, all the transactions since the last puzzle was solved are wrapped up into what's called a block".