Sentence examples for intensifying race from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Clinton's visit, the first by a secretary of state to the forum and to the remote Cook Islands, nevertheless highlighted an intensifying race between China and the United States for influence in a part of the world that President Obama has tried to make a greater focus of American foreign policy.

Because most states gave nominating delegates to both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama based on vote proportions, as opposed to winner take all, the two campaigns were predicting on Tuesday that neither candidate would have a blowout lead, setting up an intensifying race as Louisiana, Washington, Virginia, Ohio and Texas hold nominating contests over the next four weeks.

The report comes amid an intensifying race to obtain content rights and create original programming for an online audience.

Suzhou's development lies is in the hands of urban planners who are attempting to reconcile contradictory impulses: the active preservation and exploitation of monuments to the past; an intensified race to enter global circuits of capital; and spectacular projects of urban speculation and duplication.

Think of the wearables market as an intensifying arms race of how many sensors and deep algorithms you'll be able to pack into a connected device in a quest for increasingly granular data that can be collected seamlessly and around the clock.

Here again, the new generation of information technologies is intensifying the race.

A18 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 ScuffleScuffle Intensifies Race for District Attorney The battle for Manhattan district attorney became increasing bitter as a street scuffle broke out between staff members of the incumbent, Robert M. Morgenthau, and his opponent, Leslie Crocker Snyder, Mr. Morgenthau's first serious challenger in 20 years.

In addition to the newly intensified mayoral race, 19 of the city's 43 contested aldermanic races will now go to runoffs.

Its destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor in June may have served to precipitate a more intensified arms race.

The tight three-way vote in Iowa, among Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Mr. Romney, will intensify the race for those candidates in New Hampshire, which will vote on Tuesday.

Amassing vast quantities of "surplus" capital, the giant banks found they could garner superprofits on investments in colonies and semi-colonies, and this intensified the race for empire among the great powers.