Sentence examples for tricky competitor from inspiring English sources

Typically, Conradian narrative has a frame supplied by a narrator figure or set of narrator figures, named or anonymous: most famously, perhaps, Marlow in Lord Jim. Henry James - Conrad's sometime supporter, but more often tricky competitor - identified the key to Conrad's narration as being "a prolonged hovering flight of the subjective over the outstretched ground of the case exposed".

The white wines were tricky, competitors said, in particular No. 5 — a "bear," said Mr. Soud, an American — which was revealed to be a 2010 Condrieu from the northern Rhone valley.

Reporting on the media is sometimes a tricky role, with competitors quick to complain if they sniff bias or lack of balance.

And Groove's modes involving simultaneous players were tricky because the competitors tend to step on one another's moves.

Pacy, tricky and a tough competitor - Brazil have been warned.

Of course, information sharing can be tricky when it involves competitors.

As every businessman knows, this is a very tricky proposition, especially when a competitor has already occupied the market niche you aspire to.

It helps them find the answer to a surprisingly tricky question: who are their closest competitors?

But the players also reported that the yips occurred when under pressure -- making tricky putts or playing against tough competitors, for example.

Determining who in the crowd of competitors had stolen control would be tricky, he said, because smartphones could easily be used to carry out such an attack.

I asked one of Merck's marketing men whether it was a tricky thing to supply liquid crystal to two such fierce competitors.