Sentence examples for conventional player from inspiring English sources

Santoro may be that rarity - a Frenchman who has won a grass-court title (in Newport, Rhode Island, last year) - but he is very far from being a conventional player on the surface.

Accordingly, we have two such January effect candidates, an online advertiser and a conventional player.

This week, however, saw the Vatican boast of a diplomatic triumph that had eluded the conventional players of great power politics for over half a century.

But he appears quite capable of driving more conventional players to distraction over the next few years and has been off to a good start here: beating Jérémy Chardy of France in the first round and then, on Thursday, taking out another veteran top-50 player in straight sets, Feliciano López of Spain.

Mitsubishi Electric has developed a Blu-ray player that is is just 1/3 of the size of conventional players [JP] and is intended for automotive use.

"When you look at all the big conventional players, they almost have to get into this category to generate growth for their own companies," says Piper Jaffray's Bahl.

The majority of RES installation operators are not conventional players in the established energy sector and, as a result, most of them have neither infrastructure nor the knowledge required to sell the electricity they produce on the central electricity markets themselves.

The new idea challenges conventional methods and established players.

The same is true of a standard entry pass to a more conventional post player.

MAKERS of personal digital audio players readily concede that despite almost two years of gradual improvements, using the palm-size and smaller devices is still not nearly as simple as slapping a CD in a conventional CD player and pressing the Play button.

And while parents with young children remain the primary market for the devices, adults are increasingly using them to take breaks during long trips or play video games -- or even as a makeshift movie theater when they lack a conventional DVD player.