Sentence examples for competing conversations from inspiring English sources

Cohen, author of the forthcoming Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide, also says it's good to have competing offers, or at least competing conversations with prospective employers, and to let hiring managers know about it.

Cohen, author of The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide, also says it's good to have competing offers, or at least competing conversations with prospective employers, and to let hiring managers know about it.

"There are a lot of blues musicians on the Island, but we have more success off the Island playing festivals and big clubs all over the country," said Mr. Latorre, who was born in Kansas City and began playing the harmonica at 12. "The concert gives us a chance to come up and shine a little -- just play without having to compete with conversations and noise in a club," he said.

True to form, few people paid attention to the auditions taking place in a corner of Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall as they entered from 42nd Street, their clacking heels and cellphone conversations competing with the music in the corner.

Three televisions and loud music compete with conversation; upstairs seating for 45 is quieter.

There are still 15 walls of conversation competing for ears.

There may be nothing more important for innovation than for an organization to include competing notions in all conversations.

We need a new type of conversations with competing interests in the boardroom.

Socrates notices that their conversation is competing with the shrill sound of cicadas.

Finally, when you talk to department chairs about competing for faculty, the conversation quickly and invariably turns to the notion of "critical mass".

Despite its potential for drama, Lee develops her story through long dialogue sequences that read less like conversation than competing arguments.