Sentence examples for killer competition from inspiring English sources

CANNES — The 64th Cannes Film Festival, theater of carefully plotted ceremonies and killer competition, is built in a seismic zone — anything can happen — and the ghosts of festivals past, even those who didn't obey the protocol, are welcome.

In Longmont, Colo., Wal-Mart plans to build a new Supercenter, and no one would be surprised to hear dissent from so-called mom-and-pop stores facing the killer competition.

In an effort to find answers to these questions, I've agreed to host a conference in Chicago that will deal with this crisis and, with the help of a panel of experts, offer some insights and solutions on how to operate in this world of killer competition.

"Take your killer competition to another city, another community, another state.

And public protest there was—at least three separate demonstrations were held against the contest, with demonstrators calling for the "Killer Cop Competition" to be called off or moved to a different location.

The west's ascendancy, he argues, is based on six attributes that he labels its "killer apps": competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.

Now the rest of the world is striking back, having acquired what he's cutely termed "the West's killer apps": competition, the scientific revolution, property rights, modern medicine, consumer society and finally, that work ethic.

In "While the City Sleeps," the hunt for a serial killer sparks competition among the various editors of a New York media conglomerate, including an award-winning writer and television commentator (Dana Andrews), who goes straight to the source, addressing the unknown murderer on the air and even using his own fiancée (Sally Forrest) as bait.

In case the "Killer Cop Competition" label comes off as hyperbolic, it should be pointed out that at least one of the cops on the Albuquerque team is actually a killer.

There will be no World Cup this year, nor even a European Championship, but perhaps football's flagship event wasn't quite the competition killer some made it out to be.

According to Wikipedia — which could not be consulted surreptitiously on the iPhone during those early killer Trivial Pursuit competitions — the pair were critical of the kind of thinking that was "indiscriminate enough to confuse the flower of Trivia with the weed of minutiae".