Sentence examples for early competitor from inspiring English sources

Within a few years, however, Chevy shifted its focus to less expensive cars and became an early competitor to Henry Ford.

An early competitor, James Worden, who founded Solectria, a Boston manufacturer of electric drive components, was famous for spending all-nighters under cars, trying to improve performance.

TiVo's user interface for managing recorded programs set it apart from early competitor ReplayTV, which now has less than one-third of TiVo's market share.

Baidu, a Chinese search engine that was introduced in 2001 as an early competitor to Yahoo, capitalized on the national fervor for chat and invented a tool that allows people to create instant discussion groups based on popular search queries.

(The weekend is predicated on a Hyannis-to-Nantucket sailboat race named for an early competitor's baffled cry: "Where the fuck are we?") After a late night that Friday, the guys woke up at the family summer house of their host, Andrew Curren.

Wesabe was an early competitor of Mint, but you might have heard of it.

Founded in early 2007, the service is one of the early competitors in the digital invites and e-cards space, and a rival to others like Evite.

And many of Foursquare's early competitors, including Loopt, Gowalla, Whrrl, Brightkite and Hot Potato, have disappeared, either folding their businesses or shutting after being acquired.

Secondly, this religion flourished while its early competitors died because of the support of the Roman state following the conversion of the emperor Constantine.

One of his early competitors, Senator Orrin Hatch, later saluted the Bush proposal to reduce taxes by $483 billion over five years as "bold but responsible".

"My horse-mad wife is really loving it, and even her revelation that she 'got off' with the husband (pre-marriage) of one of today's early competitors hasnt yet tempered my enjoyment.