Roller-skating sports include speed skating, hockey, figure skating, and dancing competitions similar to the ice-skating sports, as well as the vertical and street-style competitions common to so-called extreme sports.
Like most cities where there's a dominant industry and a surplus of competition, it's common to believe that your career or alma mater makes you a better person which is dumb, because Arianna Huffington went to Cambridge, and Donald Rumsfeld went to Georgetown and Princeton.
We want cooperation instead of competition, common instead of corporate interest, solidarity instead of greed, strong social relationships instead of meaningless consumption, mindful resource stewardship instead of extractivism and compassion instead of indifference.
Attachment to, and competition for, territory is common to all animals – the principal distinction being that human territorial attachments have historically resulted in more complex, and usually bloodier, consequences.
And the skills issues — and global competition — that United Technologies faces are common to any technology company.
True, that is cold comfort to U.S. workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition or, as is more common, to robots and other technological advances.
Whilst the specific threats vary among species, problems such as introduced predators, loss of suitable nesting habitat and inter- and intra-specific competition for nest sites are common to many situations.
In a practice common to design competitions overseas, but seldom found in the United States, they have invited younger applicants to compete with more established offices.
Writing in pilish and pi memorisation competitions are common ways to celebrate Pi Day, but the most popular activities usually involve the eating of pies, an appropriate pun since pies are often circular.
"This situation illustrates once again the need for our industry, along with the paramount priorities of protecting our athletes and fans and the integrity of our competition, to develop common best practices for drug testing procedures, including the levels used in defining violations".
