Sentence examples for cruel competition. from inspiring English sources

In February I wrote about Bruce Allentuck, a 45-year-old father of three from North Potomac who was putting himself through a super-human training regimen for the 2011 Death Race (since renamed the Spartan Death Race), an insanely cruel competition of strength and endurance.

There exists unprecedented pressure to be perfect and cruel competition.

The system of varna insisted that the law of social life should not be cold and cruel competition, but harmony and co-operation.

In physics, as in politics, the competition is crueller in lean times.

"The competition can be cruel".

"Harmony Lessons," a powerful film showing out of competition, observes the cruel pecking order and bullying at a school in rural Kazakhstan where a 13-year-old loner is persecuted by older classmates who operate an extortion racket.

And in a world in which the competition grows ever crueler and the jockeying for advantage more intense, parents feel it's more incumbent on them than ever to leave no stone unturned and to play an error-free game.

One could wonder why Krabbé left the cozy indoor world of chess competitions for the cruel outdoors, often freezing in nasty weather.

But, he says, the growth of comedy panel shows makes comedians dependent on one-line quips that, in an atmosphere of usually male competition, often become progressively cruel.

"It's a cruel way to go out of a competition," concluded King.

"It's a cruel way to go out of a competition, yet we came so close to winning it in normal time.