Sentence examples for competing definitions from inspiring English sources

So, here is a brief glossary of the various competing definitions of sci-fi.

Delilah embodies the ambivalence her audience feels toward competing definitions of being female.

It has "begun to decrease, slowly and progressively".The issue has become mired in contradictory statistics and competing definitions.

"There are competing definitions of what farm preservation means," said Tom Wickham, a Southold councilman whose family has farmed on the North Fork for generations.

Arguably, though, it was inevitable, a triumph of official opacity in a struggle of competing definitions of what the public should be allowed to know.

THE term "feminism" (or rather féminisme) was first used in France in the 1880s, and almost immediately became the subject of competing definitions.

But when an ailment has no known cause and its symptoms are subjective — as with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and other diseases whose characteristics and even existence have been contested — competing case definitions are almost inevitable.

Now a new study of chronic fatigue syndrome has highlighted how competing case definitions can lead to an epidemiologic "Rashomon" — what you see depends on who's doing the looking — and has stoked a fierce debate among researchers and patient advocates on both sides of the Atlantic.

But the arrival earlier this year of two new and competing high-definition video discs, called HD DVD and Blu-ray, should bring the movie night into the 21st century.

The battle over the competing high-definition DVD technologies has sputtered in recent months as Blu-ray discs have emerged as the front-runner.

A COUPLE of months ago, the battle over which of the two competing high-definition formats would replace the DVD seemed to be drawing to a close.