Sentence examples for weaker competition from inspiring English sources

In hindsight, that could be because their impressive statistical rankings were compiled against generally weaker competition.

"A lot of home-school teams play in small gyms, church gyms, and they play against weaker competition," Flatt said.

The bad news for ABC was the plunge in ratings for "Dancing," which started well last week against weaker competition.

Eight M.L.S. teams lost to weaker competition in the third round last week, the first stage in which the top-division clubs enter the competition.

The most popular Minor League Equivalency system, designed by Clay Davenport of Baseball Prospectus, estimates that the weaker competition at Class AAA should increase a major leaguer's home runs by about a third.

Michael Davies, the show's executive producer, said he wanted to see how a celebrity week would work, especially when placed against the relatively weaker competition outside the sweep month.

This number hardly changes when considering the subgroups of workers working for plants facing strong or weak competition, though workers' wages are generally higher in plants with strong competitive pressure5.

Many people assumed he was simply taking advantage of weak competition in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

In many countries, weak competition allows too many underperforming, poorly managed firms to survive.

The Cannes film festival this year presented its weakest competition list in ages, with the quality of some almost beggaring belief.

Facing weak competition on the other networks, "Still Standing" brought in 9.12 million viewers and "Listen Up" drew 9.14 million.