Sentence examples for excellence competition from inspiring English sources

El Salvador's inaugural Cup of Excellence competition was held in 2003, and Batlle decided to enter.

When she got there, she encountered a slew of programs designed to help producer countries capture more of coffee's value, including the Cup of Excellence competition.

Over the years, thousands of samples were roasted on that San Franciscan, including numerous Cup of Excellence competition sets and other award-winning lots".

Mr. Sorenson recently spent more than $100,000 for a batch of coffee beans that took top honors at this year's Nicaraguan Cup of Excellence competition.

In 2003, her first year managing her family's coffee farms, the coffees she entered in the Cup of Excellence competition won first and sixteenth place, and her coffee broke the record for price paid at a Cup of Excellence auction.

But old habits die hard: "I don't take my eyes off the C price," says Paulo Almeida, who won first prize in Brazil's Cup of Excellence competition in 2001 and went on to sell his coffee for $700 a bag, doubling his farm's income.

The most prestigious of these are the annual Cup of Excellence competitions, now organized in eight coffee-growing countries by a United States-based nonprofit group, an event Mr. Prince of Coffeegeek calls "Coffee's Olympics".

What I loved the most about being there was that it was a school that encouraged excellence and competition but not rivalry — we were coevals competing to bring out the best in one another, not rivals fighting to knock one another down.

The most recent communication of the European Commission (EC) on internationalisation, which gives orientation for FP7, puts the issue of excellence through competition (or better: co-opetitiond) in the forefront: 'Excellence in research stems from competition between researchers and from getting the best to compete and co-operate with each other.

CUP OF EXCELLENCE A competition to determine the best coffee bean grown in a particular nation.

"Under the context of conference realignment, we believe pursuing a new basketball framework that builds on this tradition of excellence and competition is the best way forward".