Sentence examples for unexpected competition from inspiring English sources

With this unexpected competition, Lifetime, under a new chief executive and president, Carole Black, began to refurbish itself.

Aside from the unexpected competition from "Fantastic Mr. Fox," there is "Ponyo," an odd but haunting film from Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese anime master whose "Spirited Away" won in 2002.

IN the early 1950s Hollywood faced unexpected competition from a popular new medium — television — that was encouraging the audience to stay at home, parked before tiny screens, rather than venture out to the local movie palace.

Such unexpected competition from real life, however, serves only to emphasize the shortcomings of mainstream moviemaking, which runs more and more on caution, complacency and the willingness to turn any fresh idea into a marketing formula.

A third team pursuing Piniella would give the Mets unexpected competition, because they were considered the front-runners in the chase and they considered Piniella their top choice to succeed Bobby Valentine, who was dismissed on Oct. 1.

Not every company is as bold as GE, which last year ran an exercise called "destroyyourbusiness.com" to force managers to consider where they were most vulnerable to unexpected competition delivered by the Internet.Most old-economy companies initially choose not to re-engineer their whole business, but rather to spin off a new division to experiment.

It looks at first glance like Michael Birch and Brent Hoberman's PROfounders Capital has a new and unexpected bit of competition in the shape of "online Dragon" Julie Meyer from Ariadne Capital.

Frank Allcroft is a television anchor on a Birmingham news show specializing in human-interest stories: local murders, savory-pie competitions, unexpected holes opening up in pensioners' back gardens.

Procedures for unexpected, out-of-competition anti-doping controls were officially approved one year later and 1988 can be considered as the T&F golden year of exceptional marks, which subsequently resulted in a large stagnation in the women's events.

"If Hank Greenberg is getting hit with unexpected liability claims, the competition is also being hit with them," said Andrew Barile, an insurance consultant in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey demolished the competition as an estimated $84.8m£52m2m) through Warner Bros scored the highest December opening weekend at the box office in North America.