What is "competitor"

Usage examples of "competitor".

Walker, one of the ablest men ever born on the soil so productive of good and able men, was proposed as my competitor.

Forcing himself from the luxury of the palace, he appeared in arms at the head of his legions, and advanced beyond the Po to encounter his competitor.

Their collaborators and sharp competitors in the great and noble work of planting the gospel and the church in old and neglected fields at the South, and carrying them westward to the continually advancing frontier of population, were to be found in the multiplying army of the Methodist itinerants and local exhorters, whose theology, enjoined upon them by their commission, was the Arminianism of John Wesley.

In respect to industrial matters, the hampered artizans, watched and cloistered in their country, cease to perfect their arts and allow foreign competitors to surpass them in processes and in furnishing supplies to the world.

When it is considered that many amateur writers have been discouraged from becoming competitors, and that few, if any, of the professional authors can afford to write for nothing, and, of course, have not been candidates for the honorary prize at Drury Lane, we may confidently pronounce that, as far as regards NUMBER, the present is undoubtedly the Augustan age of English poetry.

His competitors like Harcourt Biosciences were helpless, buried by an avalanche of new government restrictions on their research.

Even when confronted with competitors in one of its market cities, White Castle never chose to challenge ownership of the product patent, essentially conceding that the concept of the hamburger sandwich and the approach of selling in volume on a carryout basis were in the public domain.

Ino, more of a born competitor, swam races with Claus and gambled - lightly - with him.

Miss Arkansas competitors and former teammates on the Dixieland High School Drill Team.

At the same time, consignment and mail-order houses appeared in Canada for the first time, buying and selling furs on commission, allowing competitors quick and simple entry into the trade.

Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.

We were working on an interbank loan of nine and a half million for five days to a competitor, a matter of little more than a few telephone calls and a promise.

So did the third competitor, the tall hawk-faced forester Rizlail of Megenthorp, who, like Prestimion, had learned the art of bowmanship from the famed Earl Kamba of Mazadone.

If he turned out to be a spy for a competitor or working for the Confederation, Lowboy would take care of him.

A larger proportion of squirrels of the new, better adapted variety would survive every year, and the intermediate links would die in the course of time, without having been starved out by Malthusian competitors.