Sentence examples for rival idea from inspiring English sources

That is what the firm calls the person with a rival idea who came second in the voting.

But Japan's rival idea is to pipe the oil instead to the port of Nakhodka, where it could be shipped to Japan and other markets (including China).

George Westinghouse's and Nikola Tesla's rival idea of alternating current allowed electric power to be transmitted over long distances and into homes.

It might make way for a rival idea which predicts the existence of a 'fifth force' of nature.

If the convention had to agree on a single text, they reason, it would probably come down to the lowest common denominator of the rival ideas.

That is precisely what Scalia argued the government ought to be able to do, in the competition "between rival ideas"; and why it is good that his side lost.

First formulated in the early 1970s, and with more than 10,000 scientific papers written about it, the theory has fought off rival ideas to emerge as the leading candidate to explain physics beyond the Standard Model.

It would be a negotiation not between different lands but between different historical facts, different levels of survival — a contest, in fact, between rival ideas of obligation possessing societies at different moments in their quest to modernize.

But if the conference were interpreted through a chronological, not geopolitical, lens, those difficulties could perhaps come more into focus — as a contest between the rival ideas of life and obligation that societies possess at different moments in their modernizing odysseys.

Scientists have come up with two rival ideas about what they might be.

The white cube serves to sterilize and contain the debate over what we call art, transmuting it into a question of abstract taste, when it is in fact a question of rival ideas of how society works, different communities, classes, and cultures.