Sentence examples for competitor from inspiring English sources

Revelations that Michael Jordan had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars gambling barely dented his appeal, since the story reinforced the image of him as a fierce competitor.

Her family called her a "tenacious deal maker" and a "competitor".

Not the competitor Hewitt is, Tomic's chances could come down to what mood he's in.

The CIA, for instance, sees MI6 as a competitor.

Colin Montgomerie was the one who said to me on Saturday night: 'You know we've won, don't you?' It's just as tasteless for a competitor to say that as it was for the Americans to do their end-zone celebration on the 17th green".

Virgin and Delta have vowed to become a "formidable competitor" on UK-US routes after the American airline was cleared to complete its purchase of a 49% stake of Sir Richard Branson's Atlantic carrier.

Pointing to the statue on top of the adjacent St Pancras terminus, which was built as a direct competitor in the 1860s, Johnson said that the "acroterion had scorned, and sneered at" King's Cross.

Not all leagues had such significant legal impacts on labor relations, but in many cases, the presence of a competitor forced major rises in player salaries.

The media industry needs its own competitor to online streaming giants Amazon and Netflix, Rupert Murdoch told a technology conference on Wednesday.

In April 2003 the American occupation of Iraq removed a regional competitor.

As of April, however, stats from Mobidia suggested that Periscope, as well as its competitor Meerkat, remained a niche pursuit, with less than half a per cent of US mobile users using the app in any given month.