Many developers feel like the App Store is akin to high school: an anarchic and ruthless popularity contest to see who's got the biggest, well, um, you know what I mean.
Then there is the utterly ruthless medieval fantasy contest of life and death, Game of Thrones (or Game of Jobs as one colleague has called it), based on the series of books by George RR Martin, who in turn cruelly plays with his readers as to who might die next.
"It saddens me when artists participate in contests held by the ruthless regime just for prize money," Kowsar continues.
STEVE COLL: Yes, in Iran the state ultimately won the contest with its people, by ruthless methods.
Toulon kept the ball with ruthless efficiency and Wasps were unwilling to contest too vehemently at the breakdown for fear of conceding a penalty.
Maybe the gesture was a subtle sarcasm: a smug dig at the people who would, in the contest for history's most ruthless, always be the runner up.
An unnamed gunslinger, referred to as The Lady, enters the Old West town of Redemption circa 1881 where she enters a single elimination gunfighting contest held by Redemption's ruthless leader, John Herod, a former outlaw.
Sadly, as a society, for centuries we have embraced a view of human nature that is selfish and competitive -- with evolution being described as a contest in which the most ruthless are always likely to be the winners.
Competition can be ruthless.
Stade were barely ever in the contest and disintegrated in the face of a ruthless Leicester performance in front of a boisterous Welford Road crowd.
A man so ruthless as to stand against his gifted elder brother, David, in the leadership contest was not to be trusted.
