Sentence examples for competition to define from inspiring English sources

He and the Gore campaign engaged in a fierce cross-country competition to define what voters thought about Mr. Cheney.

[C2.] Rival Alliances in E-Book Software Stepping up the competition to define a standard format for electronic publishing, Microsoft and Adobe Systems both announced rival alliances intended to strengthen their respective positions in the growing market.

The 10 declared Republican presidential candidates met together for the first time here Thursday night in what amounted to a tentative but occasionally vibrant competition to define the party's ideology and agenda in a post-Bush era.

Mosques across Tunisia blazed with similar sermons that day and, indeed, every Friday since, in what has become the battle of the pulpit, a heated competition to define Tunisia's religious and political identity.

JERUSALEM — Speaking to a group of ultra-Orthodox men shortly before he officially entered politics, Yair Lapid, a proudly secular talk-show host, declared that in a century-long competition to define Israel's character, "we lost and you won".

"The voter registration process has become more cumbersome and difficult as there's been a competition to define who is eligible to vote," said Dan A. Lewis, director of Northwestern University's Center for Civic Engagement, which started incorporating voter registration into its freshman orientation last year.

These peptides were used in the competition ELISA to define the requirements for antibody binding (i.e. a positive signal in the ELISA, indicating that the peptide used for pre-incubation could not bind to the anti-p35 55 anti-p35 55.

Last year, the Audi Urban Future Initiative set up a competition among architecture firms to define a research program for future cities.

In an effort to understand the basis for the diminished and altered cleavage of DNA following methylation, we employed a competition assay developed previously to define the relative binding affinities of Fe·BLM for hairpin DNAs.

Furthermore, the physiological state of athletes at the culmination of a match (or tournament) and residual effects for ensuing competition also remain difficult to define in the context of fatigue.

If conventional games have an overarching ambition, it is to define the competition in such a way as to avoid the sort of messy, emotional uncertainties that characterize life on the outside.