Sentence examples for desperate competition from inspiring English sources

The car companies liked the absence of many unions and the lower average wage in the region, and did nothing to discourage the desperate competition among poor Southern states offering to pay their way into the global economy.

The enterprises broadcast Dutch pride and relative prosperity, in economically frail Europe, with a tincture of the desperate competition for visitors and prestige that art institutions worldwide have come to incarnate.

At issue is whether to suspend a five-year-old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

We know that the conflicts and actions of the 21st Century will be less about the state-on-state warfare which characterised previous centuries, and more about the challenges of global terrorism, climate change, increasingly desperate competition for natural resources and fertile land, natural disasters, pandemics and mass migrations of peoples.

In our YouTube and VEVO age - of desperate competition for hits, and where content is often manipulated to be purely attention grabbing - it seems to be having a huge impact on commercial dance music.

As I discovered Saturday Night Live with several years of delay, and I read Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's autobiographies, in fact, the whole universe seemed to suggest that, in a world where almost all TV authors were in desperate competition with each other, comedy ones were on the contrary living a peaceful and fulfilling existence.

If he were desperate for competition — without regard to geography, lifestyle or paycheck — Carmelo Anthony could board a flight to Italy, Spain or France tomorrow.

Desperate economic competition caused trouble, as in Israel where the much-needed waters of the Jordan River kept it in constant dispute with its water-hungry Arab neighbours.

In 1949, Willy's desperate cry — "the competition is maddening!" — must have chilled theatergoers for whom competition still had a mostly positive connotation.

The insurance industry is so desperate to avoid competition that it has already pledged numerous reforms and called for tighter regulation of the private market to expand coverage and control costs.

Dozens of bar-brothels called "flamingoes" sprang up, competition forced desperate women to have sex with up to 1,000 clients a year, and venereal disease treatment dried up.