Whites, chiefly Americans, had come to own most of the land in the islands, while imported Asiatics and Portuguese competed sharply with the natives as laborers.
Finally, whether as exporters or importers, foreign middlemen always competed with each other so keenly that their Japanese clients obtained the best possible terms from them.
Her salon competed with that of the Hôtel de Rambouillet and that of Mlle de Montpensier at the Luxembourg.
So far the College had not competed in tournaments, but Blossom Webster was hopeful that later on in the term some champions might be chosen who would not disgrace the Games Club.
It was quite friendly rivalry when I was at school, and the girls with whom I competedwere my dearest chums.
The two sciences have been faithful handmaidens the one to the other; but geology has always led the way, and archaeology has been competed to follow in its path.
If the Union Pacific competed with the Southern Pacific when it hauled eastern freight from Omaha to Ogden, the Central Pacific did likewise when it hauled the same freight from Ogden to Sacramento.
We have already seen that cities competed with each other within California itself, but this competition was less important within the state than it was in the case of hauls across the continent.
Numerous as were the lines already existing at this time, none of them directly competedwith the waterways.
Historically, a number of cities or city-states havecompeted for survival and supremacy.
Subsequently, the Ottoman and Persian empires competedfor influence in the region.
In the midst of this placid natural setting, sky and ocean competed with each other in tranquility, and the sea offered the orb of night the loveliest mirror ever to reflect its image.
Both were employed in decorating the churches of Rome; the second had the reputation of a better designer than the first, and in the cartoons painted for some mosaics for the Vatican church, he competed with the Cav.
Raimondo at the Minerva, and the Moses passing the Red Sea, in a vault of the Mattei gallery, where he competed with other first rate artists.
Perhaps no work on the whole procured him a greater degree of celebrity than the frescos painted in various chambers of the Royal Palace of Turin, where he competed with Beaumont, who was then in the height of his reputation.
Cristóbal Andino is said to have competed unsuccessfully with other men, in A.
When the woollen manufacture was introduced into the north, the shuttle competed with the plough in Rossendale, and about forty years ago we sent them the Jenny.
Both alike built palaces, gardens, and fountains; filled equally the highest offices of the state, competedin an extensive and enlightened commerce, and rivalled each other in renowned universities.
Students from the lower income groups have not competed favorably against those from more advantaged backgrounds and, although upward mobility is not blocked, it has been becoming more difficult.
The figures in the right-hand column show the mean height of the self-fertilised plants, that of the crossed plants with which they competed being represented by 100.
In Pot 1, in which the two lots competed with each other, the crossed plants flowered first and produced a large number of capsules, whilst the self-fertilised produced only nineteen.
At the annual regatta, under the Rowing Association, the rivals have oftencompeted in a special race; but they ran the chance of being drawn to row private schools.
His name was Carlo Leoni, and he competed with Centino in his picture of the Penitence of David, at the Oratorio, and with other excellent figurists who then flourished in Romagna.
Yet he surpassed even these, to the surprise of all, in the cupola of the Piacenza cathedral; and in the same city he appears to havecompeted with Pordenone, and in point of vigour of style to have gone beyond him.
He often competed with Tiarini, always superior in point of spirit and force of colouring; but inferior in all the rest.
He once competed with his brother Annibal for an altar-piece intended for the church of the Carthusians.
Some of his pupils competed with the best artists of the fourteenth century; and part approached the splendor of the golden age.
It did not suit them that the Venetian Jews, who, shut up in the Ghetto, possessed neither land nor the right to carry on a handicraft, competed with them in finance and trade.
The Jews could no longer practice usury, they had no capital, or rather Christian capitalists competed with them.
Schleiermacher and Fichte brought the representatives of German intellect so low that they actually competed with the ultra-Catholics in hatred of the Jews.
After six years of study he competed for a prize at the Academy, and, winning the second for the plan of an underground chapel, he received a pension and was sent to Rome (1785).
His attention was first directed to poetry; and more than once he competed for prizes of the French Academy, but never with success.
He implied that brilliant women all over London competed for his invitations.
He had a sudden desire to talk to her about the great municipal building in the north that was soon to be competed for.
These are the prizes of book collecting, seldom met with, and always strongly competed for.
To have competed with Titian is a circumstance not a little honourable to his name, and has acquired for him in the Venetian School the second rank at least, in a period so prolific in excellent artists.
The faithful tender colour of modern life competed with the preposterous oddity of burlesque erudition.
Fifteen competed for the prize of 5 pounds, and a silver medal for the best English poem, never before published, upon any distinctively Welsh subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "competed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
