Sentence examples for quiet competition from inspiring English sources

The conversation still takes the form of a quiet competition between two couples.

The pollster was thrown in jail, but the reality drove a quiet competition between Iran's two rival political forces.

A quiet competition sprang up among the stores, which guarded the next year's plans from leaking to their rivals.

The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver's classic, transposes New Mexico to South Florida but still takes the form of a quiet competition between two couples.

The extent to which these two campaigns by the Clintons are being coordinated is a matter of conjecture among the couple's friends -- as was the question of whether there might be a quiet competition going on between these two Democrats for a piece of the public stage.

There seems to be a quiet, friendly competition between the likes of Big Sean and Pusha to be G.O.O.D. Music's consigliere, and Pusha seems bent on claiming that position.

Pummeled by a weak economy, many Wall Street banks, traditionally the largest commercial mortgage lenders, have gone quiet, leaving little competition for life insurers.

On holiday, it is always tempting to thrust gadgets at children to keep them quiet, but digital competition has made publishers raise their game.

C1 Fight to Control.org Domain A quiet but intense competition is under way for the right to manage the global database that keeps track of Internet addresses of noncommercial organizations.

Others are quieter in their competition to appear most learned.

In a similar battle (with the LSE) for the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange in 2001, Euronext also kept quieter than the competition—and was the surprise winner.