Sentence examples for vicious competition. from inspiring English sources

People struggled with hunger and a vicious competition for survival.

Many left their rural hometowns for the more prosperous cities only to face vicious competition for scarce white-collar jobs.

The fight over the bill illustrates the often vicious competition between caste, religion, ethnicity and gender over who will benefit most from laws designed to reduce inequality.

In both cases, the wars were as much about vicious competition between sectarian groups as they were about the decisions of military and political leaders.

"Financial distress on the part of many households, ongoing labor market weakness and vicious competition from an enormous overhang of existing homes all point to a very tough slog for home builders in the months and quarters ahead," Joshua Shapiro, the chief United States economist for MFR Inc., said.

"Financial distress on the part of many households, ongoing labor market weakness and vicious competition from an enormous overhang of existing homes all point to a very tough slog for home builders in the months and quarters ahead," said Joshua Shapiro, the chief United States economist for MFR Inc.

What we see at the moment is a period of intense and sometimes quite vicious geopolitical competition, which is in some ways reminiscent of the cold war.

For more than a half-century, the Kim clan has kept the military in line through vicious purges, competition that fosters loyalty to the leader, selective rewards and a multilayered security apparatus.

Early entrants, seduced by quick successes among affluent consumers in one or two cities, decided to tackle the mass market, only to encounter lower prices, fragmented customer bases, haphazard distribution and vicious domestic competition.

Thirty-five years later, the United States remains central to Iran's domestic power struggle, but now it is massive pro-American sentiment that defines the country's vicious internal competition.

Hundreds of thousands of small firms sprouted (there are now 450,000 trucking firms in America, compared with 10,000 two decades ago), creating vicious price competition that forced drivers to spend sleepless weeks at a time on the road merely to make a living.