Sentence examples for powerful competition from inspiring English sources

There might have been more, but hard-fought bridge games at nearby tables proved powerful competition.

Its powerful competition directorate sees itself as the unflinching enforcer of Article 81 of the treaty underpinning the European Union.

Satellite-television news from stations such as CNN provided powerful competition in meeting the needs of the news-hungry.

Kroes was an EU commissioner from 2004 until 2014, initially overseeing the powerful competition directorate and then Europe's digital agenda.

The commission's powerful competition services could make their first announcement tomorrow, with Fiat facing around €150m £110mm) in tax repayments and Starbucks around €20m.

Yet like the two-seat XK, the XF is surprisingly adept and entertaining at high speed: a hypercompetitive driver will mostly keep up with the more powerful competition.

In the end, the wind and currents were too powerful for competition.

Little more than a decade later, as the powerful European competition commissioner, Ms. Kroes completed a lengthy antitrust prosecution of Microsoft, forcing the company to change its business practices in Europe and pay fines amounting to 1.2 billion, or nearly $1.8 billion.

He has held a long-cherished wish to work in the Premier League, and he has been taking English lessons for several months in preparation for his much-desired move to Europe's most powerful domestic competition.

The Soviet fashioning of Crimea as a mass image of desire was completely successful, and still remains powerful, despite competition since the end of the Soviet Union, from cheaper, better equipped resorts in nearby Turkey.

Regulations purportedly designed to protect the public but serving only to protect the politically powerful from competition are squelching countless American dreams.