Sentence examples for rating competition from inspiring English sources

FINANCIAL TIMES   European Leaders Agree to Promote Credit Rating Competition  |  Finance ministers of the European Union reached an agreement on Saturday to require companies to rotate their credit rating agencies, The New York Times reports.

The network had bid $1.5 million for a cin? v t tyle film Ms. Fawcett was making of her struggle with late-stage cancer, and with the gossip media buzzing about her imminent death, NBC was eager to get the show on television for the upcoming May sweeps rating competition.

'Millionaire' Ratings Though ABC's top program executives, Stu Bloomberg and Lloyd Braun, took great pains at a news conference this month to avoid predicting that ABC would ride "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to a win in the season's network rating competition, the facts seem to be overwhelming their reticence.

This year's ceremony was moved to Monday night in part to escape the "Desperate Housewives" rating competition.

They don't want to become cut-rate competition for their own concerts elsewhere.

Stop treating the Paralympics like pitiful seconds and more like the first-rate competition it is.

The lack of rate competition has also allowed banks to keep their margins artificially fat.

Photoconductivity properties of the films were analyzed relating to the rate competition among photo-generation, recombination and trapping of carriers.

"Unfortunately, all the signs are that the FA Cup has now very much become a second-rate competition," Gavyn Davies told the Daily Mail.

But BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has betrayed the corporation's true feelings towards the competition - for which it paid £200m - by saying he thought it had "become very much a second rate competition".

BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has described the FA Cup as a "second-rate competition", delivering a hammer blow to the Football Association's hopes of negotiating a lucrative new deal for TV coverage of the tournament.