Sentence examples for conventional players from inspiring English sources

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.

Startups are disrupting the space and causing conventional players to adopt startup mentalities.

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.

This implies that if a conventional decreasing-returns business (say, telecom or media) is threatened by a new type of competitor whose business model experiences increasing returns, the conventional player is in for a rough ride.

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.

The new idea challenges conventional methods and established players.

Tietjens, Sylvia, and Valentine are not conventional romantic players — their desires are obtuse and unusual and hard to figure, and the ends they meet are vague.