Sentence examples for lesser competitors from inspiring English sources

Thus, leading banks promote longer hours as if this were a point of difference, even though lesser competitors offer the same service.

Graf, whose tennis has become progressively stronger as the tournament has worn on and lesser competitors have worn down, dominated her opponent, 6-1, 6-2.

This is regardless of whether or not that person watches BBC television or exclusively (as many do) tunes into the excellent broadcasts of Britain's brightest broadcaster Channel 8, or its lesser competitors.

At first, "Flushed Away" does not seem so different from its lesser competitors, even as it dares to aim a few mocking jabs at Pixar, the top dog in the computer-animation world.

These more-efficient companies will be able to buy a peer at a discount as other, lesser competitors are too afraid to make a move in an uncertain time.

The statistical lines of pitchers have changed, not because the pool is filled with lesser competitors, but because the same amount of effort simply does not go as far as it once did.

A month shy of his 40th birthday, and five years removed from the neck surgeries that might have ended a lesser competitor's career, Manning has finally got his hands on the Lombardi Trophy for a second time.

The knowledge that she would be followed wherever she went, and that she would be expected to dictate the race pattern, could have broken a lesser competitor's nerve but Cooke was simply too strong.

Those five triumphs (1985 , 1986 , 19891991, and 1993) were spread over nine years that were punctuated by a spate of injuries serious enough to discourage a lesser competitor, but each time he came back to prove a remarkable survivor.

According to one participant in a board meeting, a banker advised the company that the risk of losing the deal and paying the breakup fee was worth taking because it would also probably distract Sprint and make T-Mobile a lesser competitor.

But what we can say with certainty is that Peyton Manning today, 39 years old and half a decade removed from neck surgery that would have ended a lesser competitor's career, is no longer performing to anything like the same level as his rival.