How To Use Compete In A Sentence

Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
We ask for a level playing field when we compete with foreign companies.
They kicked out our competent people and posted nincompoops. Times, Sunday Times

This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
This all plays to the core competence of business attorneys.
That Constellation would not sign a power purchase agreement for its own reactor is a stunning admission that atomic energy cannot compete with natural gas or renewables. Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs
‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
Apart from intense competition in the retail savings market, banks and building societies also compete strongly in the market for house finance.
Syngenta, which competes with companies such as U.S.-based Monsanto and Dupont Co., is one of the world's largest agrochemicals companies in terms of sales, wielding a market share of some 15%, which it wants to broaden by another 2% over the next five years. Syngenta Sales Soar
The issuing firm can make sure that underwriters compete for its business. Principles of Corporate Finance
Those who were less keen to compete for migrants could resort to convicts as casual labour.
So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
The House wants a government - run health care program to compete with in the insurance market marketplace.
I have also had dealings with totally incompetent muppets posing as health professionals.
Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine accentor, females attract males by song.
The contestants are eliminated one by one until the last two compete in a head-to-head contest.
They recognize that their competencies are an ill match for the requirements of those niches. The Rule of Three
Before Russia and Spain competed, Miermount accurately predicted scores for those countries. Innovative U.S. ties for fifth in synchronized swimming final
They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents.
Perform five to six reps to the right, then switch sides to compete the set.
He's a talented athlete who competes nationally and internationally.
Reporter - unquote "unquote" is looking for a confident, competent and ambitious reporter with language skills, specifically French or Scandinavian, to work as part of the unquote "team. News from Journalism.co.uk
How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount?
So basically, the thought is that this woman is going to start slashing the department, and only the really competent people will remain.
How was he to know that political incompetence was the key qualification for the job? Times, Sunday Times
To compete, WiMAX needs to build out now, before LTE gains a threshold in major markets — but that WiMAX buildout is in doubt. Our Readers Take on the LTE v. WiMAX Debate
But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
Over time, companies competed with one another in presenting ‘grand’ spectacles.
They include worm charming where two teams compete to entice the slimy creatures out of the ground. The Sun
A psychiatrist said McKibben was competent to stand trial .
Sixteen teams will compete in the group stages on Saturday, with the bowl, plate and finals to take place the following day.
Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination.
A court's competence to grant an anti-suit injunction seems to derive from its jurisdiction to adjudicate.
That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
Survival depends on the neuron receiving neurotrophic factors, such as nerve growth factor, which are produced by the target tissue and for which neurons compete.
International class equestrian and yachting are expensive sports to compete in at the top, and not exactly third world sports.
Dozens of wannabe singers compete for the chance to attain pop stardom. Times, Sunday Times
I don't think I can compete with your stained and unbrushed teeth in the turn-offs department.
Although it is established that TMR-actin alone is polymerization incompetent, the impact of its copolymerization with unlabeled actin on filament structure and dynamics has not been tested yet.
Kangaroos compete with sheep and cattle for sparse supplies of food and water.
Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
I had this mentality that the police were incompetent, which they weren't. Times, Sunday Times
The four defendants were charged for tattooing their bodies to evade conscription immediately after they were judged physically competent to serve in the military.
Sir Alex Ferguson feels the notion of a Premier League play-off system to allow clubs finishing outside the top four to compete for a Champions League place is "harebrained". ESPNsoccernet
History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
I suggest you refer to the competent department, the Ministry of Finance.
After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit. Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration
They compete for the savings of the general public through a network of high street branches.
Rather than compete, they would join forces and carve up the market.
For Scottish criminal cases the court can be used only when cases relate to "devolution matters", a term covering the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament in dealing with human rights issues. WalesOnline - Home
The pair along with Donald Ideson, who shoots air pistols, are due to compete in the Yorkshire County Championships at Bradford in December.
Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
In this procedure, the processing elements compete for the opportunity of learning.
In the duty of accumulation -- and I call it a _duty_, in the most strict and literal signification of that word -- all below a competence is most valuable, and its acquisition most laudable; but all above a fortune is a misfortune. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
For Scottish criminal cases, the court can be used only when the case relates to "devolution matters", a term covering the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament in dealing with human rights issues. Evening Standard - Home
She said: ‘The more the BBC colonises that space the harder it will be for the commercial players to compete.’
If the tests are successful it sees the eventual commercial use of petcoke as a way of cutting the plant's costs to help it compete with cheaper gas-fired power stations.
Why the f**k should I spend 8 years getting a PhD in biochem or engineering when I have to compete with a bunch of Chinese and Indian immigrants who are happy to make $30,000 for the next ten years of postdoc purgatory? Matthew Yglesias » Visas for Grads
Horsemen compete for a goat carcass during a game of Buzkashi to celebrate Nowruz in Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan on March 21.
Indeed, distinct therapies like naturopathy, Ayurveda, and acupuncture have coalesced into an industry that both works with and competes against mainstream medicine.
Having an incompetent person in a ministry leads to frustration, failure, and hurt. Christianity Today
he did the job rather incompetently
Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
When a valve is incompetent, the heart has to work harder to pump the required amount of blood around the body.
Various potassium silicates -- leucite, feldspar, sericite, and glauconite -- and the potassium sulphate, alunite, have received attention and certain of them have been utilized to a small extent, but none of them are normally able to compete on the market. The Economic Aspect of Geology
The youngster made a competent fist of it until Arsenal's second, but his team's problems lay in the hinterland behind him.
He's not competent to look after young children.
The opportunity law students get to compete in oral advocacy and presentation of cases in the most ratiocinative way still keeps the spirit of moot courts burning.
Having watched reasonably moderate candidates lose the last two presidential elections in heartbreaking fashion, and feeling further frustrated by the steady failure to win either house of Congress, Democrats have made it an article of faith that they lack the political and policy mechanisms to compete with their Republican counterparts. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
The young jockeys compete for all sorts of reasons. Times, Sunday Times
Another rebounding/defensive big man is all this team needs to seriously compete for a shot at the Finals. chris anderson needs to start playing with a chip on his shoulder, again ... he's too concerned with being "birdman". Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Intermediate snowboarders competed in the intermediate events immediately following the downhill skiers.
His session description very clearly demonstrates both incompetence and unethical behavior . . . regardless of Jackson's guilt or innocence which is an entirely different matter, albeit I tend not to buy the whole pure as undriven snow the Jackson sycophants are pushing. Uri Geller's Report . . .. . . on the Hypnosis Session he did with Michael Jackson . . .. . . bad trance management
University presses still compete for many monographs, including revised dissertations, and, contrary to this belief, they pay advances for a significant number of them.
The "incompetency" of criminal defendants to testify at their own trials was part of the common law of England and then the United States until the Nineteenth Century, during which incompetency gave way to the notion that the basis for disqualification - the defendant's FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
In each episode four bakers from past series will compete against each other. Times, Sunday Times
It competes with three other mobile telephone companies.
Besides, to acquire a holding, ‘the standard of farm competence required was very modest’ (so modest in fact as to necessitate in his opinion that each allottee be placed under an instructor).
Most testing instruments rely on the assumption that it is possible to separate analytically different aspects of language competence without reference to the context of use.
These products are of high quality and able to compete internationally.
That is partly because they struggle to compete with rivals in India and China that spend less on wages. Times, Sunday Times
competent testimony
Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
If only she would just trundle around in her old caravan rather than inflict her incompetence on the rest of us. The Sun
The Afghan army on their flanks was better armed and vastly more competent. Times, Sunday Times
The student acquires knowledge, understanding and a range of competencies in a particular domain.
Even the worst footballers' perms of the 1970s could hardly compete.
She claimed that the rise in unemployment was just a further manifestation of the government's incompetence.
Because organisms can consume resources at different times of the year or different times of the day, it is possible for two species that are not present in the same time and place to compete exploitatively. Exploitative competition
Ces compétences ne sont pas apprises en théorie ; elles sont apprises par la pratique. Apophenia » Blog Archive » Sociality Is Learning
With the bumsters' new focus on butt-cleavage within the society of the naked ape, push-up brassieres will have to compete aggressively to bring attention back to the chest.
He will compete in what is perhaps the starriest Tony category – actor-play. Tony Nominations 2010: Denzel, Jude, Catherine, Liev & More
Key objectives for our faculty are to obtain such recognition and ensure the highest professional standards of competence and ethical integrity.
Athletes from every corner of the globe competed in the Games.
All of the girls on the team are my friends that I competed with when I was at home, so they were looking forward to seeing me.
This mixes feminism with funny, cool with competent, self-deprecating with powerbroker. The Sun
Several nonnative noxious weeds have invaded stickseed habitat and threaten to out-compete the stickseed for the available nutrients.
The competence of commercial airline pilots of US-based carriers is assessed using standardized simulators of the aircraft they fly.
All business operations to be consistent element in the electronic information and Paper premise may be submitted to the competent authorities.
In the article, she notes several cases of medical incompetence.
The sorting is quite obvious; less competent people are more likely to get caught (and more likely to be able to be railroaded) and less able to mount a good defence. Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
Small independent bookshops can't compete with the large stores.
Forwarding residential extension applications of foreign employees working at the park enterprises competent authorities for approvals.
He bath danced at Tarascon in the ballet of Saint Martha and the Dragon, and was accounted in his own person the only actor competent to present the Tarrasque. Anne of Geierstein
Not only did he win decisively, he also had the Independent party, the Green party, the Libertarian party and other parties to compete with. Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century
He competed in four Olympic Games and did not retire from professional athletics until 1995.
Rural spinners could not compete with cheap, factory-spun thread, and country weavers could rarely survive far from eastern supplies of yarn and the industry's principal markets.
Walter Lippman (1925) in particular, was skeptical of the idea of an "omnicompetent" citizen who possesses sufficient knowledge to participate effectively in the political process.
We have constant, what we call competent air patrol or CAP over New York and over Washington. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2001
Thus, the standard is not just that of the averagely competent and well-informed junior houseman (or whatever the position of the doctor) but of such a person who fills a post in a unit offering a highly specialised service.
Betas can come in many forms—from competent wingmen to extreme introverts who are so determined to avoid conflict they suffer anxiety of their own. Are Alpha Males Healthy?
Government incompetence has put the safety of our citizens at risk yet again. Times, Sunday Times
News of most of the phone's features had already leaked out, making for a competent but slightly underwhelming presentation. Times, Sunday Times
Both genders compete in the single, double and quadruple scull. Times, Sunday Times
The pro championship will be replaced by an amateur event in which stunt novices compete against each other on their own bikes.
The legislation containing a ban will be on public health grounds, a policy area within the competence of the Scottish parliament.
Yet even the spectacular desert scenery can't compete with Toni Collette's complex stunner of a performance in the leading role.
The gist of his argument is that persons with scientific insight can dismiss as incompetent anyone who disagrees with them in judgments of value. What Unitarians Know (and Sam Harris Doesn't)
If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
‘Where hogweeds have established themselves, their aggressive growth and large size mean they rapidly out-compete our native plant species,’ Barratt said.
A minister would come under intense pressure as a result of personal or financial foibles, or just sheer incompetence. Times, Sunday Times
But it's not all downside - the prospect of big penalties discourages any company with a good reputation from entering to compete with us. Times, Sunday Times
The garnet and blue clad hoopsters competed in four exhibition contests that season, winning each by a comfortable margin.
This is an elegant explanation, one that leads to Mauser's equally elegant peroration: ‘capacitating students to be competent citizens is our birthright.’
It is difficult for a small grocery store to compete with a supermarket.
Desjardins is still an above-average rearguard on a competent but unspectacular defensive corps.
They were severely lambasted for being so inept and so incompetent.
He had learned that it was not to befriend his subordinates, nor to compete with or dominate them.
In delimiting teaching aim, we ought to help students understand rhetoric better and acquire better language competence.
The Kent athlete sprained his ankle after falling off a bus on Friday and competed with heavy strapping.
Third, with cheap rural labour and using simple methods requiring little capital, it was not difficult to compete with the sclerotic State-owned enterprises.
Some people work exceedingly well as coaches and mentors, and some people are simply incompetent to be mentors. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Or should the "greenlight" go to the ultra-competent actor and his artist wife who seem to have storyboarded every single budget item in advance for a film about a woman who leaves her big cool job in New York, comes home to Pittsburgh, and reevaluates her life? Post-gazette.com - News
Then in 1932, the city started to compete with these two privately held companies, and in 1940, they were bought and consolidated into the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority).
The slump leaves the Government strapped for cash forcing National Savings to compete aggressively for money.
Thirdly, simvastatin inhibits endothelial cell apoptosis and preserves ischaemic vasculature, perhaps maintaining a competent vascular supply to the macula.
Swindon were competent but, in common with many of the underdog teams playing over the weekend, simply lacked the guile or spark to score. Times, Sunday Times
She is respectful of individualâ€ ™ s personal timetables and idiosyncrasies and always seeks to bring the best out in everyone. acknowledges otherâ€ ™ s gifts and talents. master brainstormer, always suggesting possible fundraisers and prospective corporate or community partners. adept at seeking out possible grants and competently applying for them with great success. First Book Blog
But we did compete in sack races, running races, egg-and-spoon races, swimming races, whatever.
The King would awaken and the nobles of the realm would compete to take away his chamberpot, remove his nightshirt, and dress him with his britches. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Status Symbols and the American Express Black Card
The combination of glossy production, adequate acting and competent editing was enough to make Pearl Harbor or The Mummy Returns at least tolerable.
A 63 year old man, with a knee the size of Milwaukee, who can barely walk, let alone compete, is "average"? Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Triage for Dummies.
That none of this is within the competence of animals would seem to influence a preference for them as laboratory subjects.
The government is fond of lecturing others about lapses in competence. Times, Sunday Times
Not to bestir the busybodies at the FTC, but the limitations Time Warner and Cablevision place on their cable apps amount to an agreement not to compete. Cable, Innovative? You Don't Say!
The government is prodding banks to clean up bad loans so they are able to compete with foreign rivals.
Women who choose to remain childless are free to compete as men do but their femininity is suspect and it, rightly, pisses them off. It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother
The merchandise cannot compete with cheaper imports.
The cast consists of ill-assorted schoolboys and workmen, turned gradually into a competent team.
WMHunter; the old mod 70 trigger is one of the best made. they are easy to hone out the machine marks in the contact points and to adjust, and of 300+ that I have reworked, I have never had one returned, and one of them has been re barreled twice since I did the trigger. $40 to a competent gunsmith and you will have as good a trigger as you can buy. Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1
Training becomes especially important as the industry shifts more and more to just-in-time deliveries, while facing an increasing shortage of competent drivers.
Apart from athletics, she also competes in a wide range of events such as gymnastics, volleyball and basketball.
Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
An estimated 200 million people will watch on television as more than 10, 000 athletes compete in 271 events.
To enable small businesses to compete on equal terms with large organisations.
Never – she realized it perfectly – could she have competed in feminity with Guardie's wife. Just Patty
In fresh water streams and rivers, juvenile coho salmon defend territories and compete for limited feeding sites with other fish.
Judging was based on a surfer's best three waves of the round, forcing competitors to compete with the other boarders in the water just to reach the minimum requirement.
We can compete with sides above us, we've just got to make sure we get our game right.
If poor countries want to compete, they must practically give their goods away.
What a pity it is also the most corrupt, incompetent and untrustworthy.
As an absolute and omnicompetent power, from the standpoint of psychological realism it is both an ethical travesty and a practical absurdity.
The pattern of L 2 mental lexicon organization is one important dimension of L 2 lexical competence.
Although Neville was supremely competent both as a newspaper journalist and as a broadcaster, I always thought of him pre-eminently as a man of the arts.
She competed with her rival for a prize.
The competent authorities concerned that the influx of funds caused by a new bubble over.
I’m used to working with my DoP Francesco Pezzino on film and doing a telecine grade with him at The Farm in soho, where the look of the film has so much depth and latitude that HD can’t really compete yet. Mark Davis: Plastic: Interview | SciFi UK Review
Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses.
Britain's voters have now just about got it clear in their heads that these particular politicians are not omnicompetent either, but, having now lost faith in the whole idea of omnicompetence (good) don't know what to do about it except be miserable (bad).
He competed in the youngest age category.
Today's young men and women are more mature, responsible and competent.
The sport's ruling body gave him dispensation to compete in national competitions.
Doctors have to constantly update their knowledge in order to maintain their professional competence.
If words on a page can’t compete any more with a film as regards creating a completely detailed and filmically accurate presentation of a story*, then writers will start to look for what writing can do that cinema can’t, and try and get at the reality of their subject through using superficially “unrealistic” techniques. Cheeseburger Gothic » Friday writing blog: point of view.
Your first meeting is where people compete for cash prizes. The Sun
The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice. News Dissector Blog
The intern reported that when he asked the man if he wanted to choose dialysis or accept death from uremia, the man decided to be dialyzed—but, the intern explained to me, the man might not be competent to make that decision. After the Diagnosis
Though it is rarely discussed, few argue that the poor and oppressed have the political capital necessary to compete for the federal funding and social programs that often go to wealthier cities and neighbourhoods.
It made it almost impossible for the smaller retailer to compete against the multiples.
Both girls compete for their father's attention.
She's extremely competent and industrious.
In “Lost Continent”, a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. Subterranean Press » 2009 » January
I have regularly competed in orienteering style mountain bike races, in which you decide your own route.
Some progress has been made in this direction, but so far the main results are certain degradation-products such as aniline dyes derived from coal tar; salicylic acid; essences of fruits; etc. Still these and many other discoveries of the same nature do not prove that the laboratory of man can compete with the laboratory of the living plant cell. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
If a filly is as good as a colt, they ought to compete," said Jackson. Rachel Alexandra holds off Mine That Bird, wins Preakness
He would not have expected any damage to the frenulum during a competent attempt at intubation of a child.
We are very excited about this season, we know we'll compete for trophies. Times, Sunday Times
In this care, observation of a trainee's performance would not alone ensure comprehensive assessment of competence.
There are also those who are lazy, incompetent or simply in the wrong job. Times, Sunday Times
Our brains really have only a small suite of core competencies. Times, Sunday Times
The almost universal desire to possess some kind of armorial insignia, implies a corresponding recognition of the necessity to obtain them from some Institution or Personage, supposed to be competent and authorised both to determine what they should be, and to impart a right to accept and to assume and bear them. The Handbook to English Heraldry
It would follow that non-human animals and pre-linguistic children, although they can be sensitive, alert, responsive to pain and suffering, and cognitively competent in many remarkable ways–including ways that exceed normal adult human competence–are not really conscious (in this strong sense): there is no organized subject (yet) to be the enjoyer or sufferer, no owner of the experiences as contrasted with a mere cerebral locus of effects. What the Cognitive Scientists Believe
It takes a higher degree of competence, they say, to combine words properly in productive use.
To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
The company said it was looking to introduce unbranded leisure and sportswear to compete with value-for-money retailers.

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