Sentence examples for rival ideas from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

(One consequence of Obama's commitment to the Team of Rivals idea was to flatten the differences between his campaign and the Party's establishment).

(I applaud the team-of-rivals idea, practiced by Lincoln in bringing opposed Republicans into his cabinet. Nothing has been more damaging to the Bush administration than the president's distaste for, and incapacity to absorb, vigorous dissent in the policy shaping process).

A judge asked lawyers for Microsoft today whether a rival's idea for revising the company's plan to equip needy schools with computers was not a better idea.

Self-criticism is demanded, and the company has shown that it excels over time at adapting to and perhaps even co-opting its rivals' best ideas.

With Hitler's, Stalin's and Mao's downfalls in the last century, there is no longer any serious military or ideological rival to these ideas.

Each episode follows two advertising agencies as they compete for an account, building toward a pitch meeting where the rivals present their ideas to the client.

Maxwell runs through the depressing litany: the "vaporware" (phony announcements of product releases, designed to throw off the competition); "hidden API's" (secret bugs in Microsoft's code, to trip up rivals' software); and ideas repeatedly, and blatantly, stolen from competitors.