Sentence examples for lifelong competition from inspiring English sources

George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose career was a happy lifelong competition between scholarly pursuits and madcap attempts -- chronicled in self-deprecating prose -- to try his hand at glamorous jobs for which he was invariably unsuited, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.

The economists Garey Ramey and Valerie A. Ramey of the University of California, San Diego, call this escalation of early childhood investment "the rug rat race," a phrase that nicely captures the growing perception that early childhood experiences are central to winning a lifelong educational and economic competition.

Each member of the group has passed a rigorous competition to obtain the lifelong title of Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, which the Ministry of Labor awards to about 2 percent of applicants every three to four years.

It's a cerebral, hyperliterate riff, really, on the meanness and competition that can exist among lifelong friends.

Thus, from an evolutionary perspective, the competition of the teen years had lifelong repercussions.

The goal of youth participation in sports, the council said, "should be to promote lifelong physical activity, recreation and skills of healthy competition".

He introduced his first bill with Representative John F. Kennedy to give aid to businesses hurt by competition from cheap imports, beginning a lifelong closeness to the Kennedys.

Our Moocs are no more in competition with our degrees than a lifelong learning course because they don't carry credits".

(He recently located his biological parents after a lifelong search, and his birth mother attended the competition along with his adoptive parents).

It seemed very different from the food channel competitions to us it was really a lifelong, cultural, historic award.

And in 1991 he published a remarkable book, Reconstructing Keynesian Economics with Imperfect Competition, in which he showed how Keynesian macroeconomic theory, of which he was a lifelong advocate, made sense only when combined with the theory of imperfect competition.