* American Idol, a reality competition to find new solo musical talent

In 1963, a competition was held to find a new badge for the club, and the winning entry was a hand holding a sword, which complied with Charlton's nickname of the time, the Valiants.

The competition aspect of cheerleading can be very enduring ; styles and rules changing every year make it important and difficult to find the newest and hottest routines.

In 1727, he entered the Paris Academy Prize Problem competition, where the problem that year was to find the best way to place the masts on a ship.

The 5. 56x45 mm Mk 16 emerged as the winner of a USSOCOM competition to find a new rifle for Special Operations Forces in 2003 and entered operational service in 2009.

A number of finds from the American Southwest have yet to be formally submitted to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, as many finders think it is unwise to publicly state the coordinates of their discoveries for fear of confiscation by the federal government, and fear competition with other hunters at published find sites.

However, because of the fierce competition between the giraffe and rival foragers, those with the shorter necks could only find food at the level rivals were also feeding at.

" In the Morris story, the advertiser is organizing a competition to find the shaggiest dog in the world, and after a lengthy exposition of the search for such a dog a winner is presented to the aristocratic instigator of the competition, who says " I don't think he's so shaggy.

The hero, Nick Haflinger, is a runaway from Tarnover, a government program intended to find, educate and indoctrinate highly gifted children to further the interests of the state in a future where quantitative analysis backed by the tacit threat of coercion has replaced overt military and economic power as the deciding factor in international competition.

Following a nationwide competition with a prize of £ 50 ( 2010 :$ 3, 527 ) to find a name for the new spread, the name " Vegemite " was selected out of a hat by Fred Walker's daughter, Sheilah.

Through evolution, new species arise through the process of speciation — where new varieties of organisms arise and thrive when they are able to find and exploit an ecological niche — and species become extinct when they are no longer able to survive in changing conditions or against superior competition.

In essence, with the SCPP we seek to find the answer to how firms interact and compete with each other in different situations, and the results of these interactions, and are these results consistent with an ideal competition or not.

Eventually, on November 23, 534 BC, competitions to find the best tragedy were instituted at the City Dionysia in Athens, and Thespis won the first documented competition.

This method of finishing the competition would also eventually find use in winter events ; the Gundersen method details a means by which a similar finish is achieved in the Nordic combined.

* An eleventh pupil, Wayne was introduced following a competition held by BBC's Blue Peter to find a new Bash Street Kid.

With east Kimberley cattlemen keen to find a way to get their cattle to market, and the Government of Western Australia keen for competition to bring prices down, a 1905 proposal of a stock route through the desert was taken seriously.

As gold became harder to find and competition increased, animosity toward the Chinese and other foreigners increased.

Gabriel took on a project with the BBC World Service's competition " The Next Big Thing " to find the world's best young band.

In January 2006, the company was put up for sale but failed to find any buyers, likely due to the fact that Erbitux by that time faced significant competition in the medical marketplace.

In 1982, the EPAD launched the Tête Défense competition to find a monument to complete the Axe historique, which eventually led to the construction of Grande Arche at the west end of the quarter.

In 1953 the American magazine The Saturday Review organised a competition to find plausible candidates for the Enigma theme.

A competition was held to find a design for the bridge ; the judge, Thomas Telford, rejected all designs, and tried to insist on a design of his own, a suspension bridge supported on tall Gothic towers.

In 2009, in conjunction with the Daily Telegraph and to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its foundry, AGA set up a competition to find the oldest AGA still in use.

Many Massachusetts camps conduct a " Magee Night " competition or other similar event to celebrate Mr. Magee's contribution, and it is quite easy to find buildings named after Mr. Magee or with plaques bearing his name.

Spurred by keen competition in our industrial system, and still further increases in the funds devoted to industrial research, plant and equipment expenditures by business and industry should rise during the decade.

The AFL, currently with 18 member clubs, is the sport's elite competition and the most powerful body and continues to seek further opportunities to expand into new markets.

The AFL has signalled further expansion by scheduling a competition match in New Zealand 2013 and up to three competition matches in 2014 played in wellington.

Since at least the 1960s, macroeconomics has been characterized by further integration as to micro-based modeling of sectors, including rationality of players, efficient use of market information, and imperfect competition.

They noted, however, that their data included a wide range of products, and the degree of competition in each market varied significantly, and offer that further research on this issue should be conducted to determine whether these findings remain the same when purchasing the same product for both small and high volumes.

Keeping competitive factors constant, increasing auction volume may further increase competition.

We further recognize that the number of bad films is so enormous and the competition for the very worst is so intense, that all decisions reached here are subject to considerable second-guessing.

Bismarck further won the support of both industry and skilled workers by his high tariff policies, which protected profits and wages from American competition, although they alienated the liberal intellectuals who wanted free trade.

The dairy industry was further handicapped by the difficulties of trying to transport milk over poor roads in a tropical country, as well as by stiff competition in the domestic market from subsidized foreign imports, mostly from the United States.

Men's Singles have their start locations near where the bobsled and skeleton competitors start at most tracks, while both the Doubles and Women's Singles competition have their starthouse located further down the track.

If an athlete and sled are not within contact of one another the athlete is disqualified from further competition.

Growing competition between the more numerous people also leads to further division of labor.

The show also features judges who act as counselors, mediators and sometimes mentors to help contestants develop their skills further or perhaps decide their future position in the competition.

Should the horses shoulder or hind-quarter touch the ground, mandatory requirement is taken and they are not allowed to participate further in the competition.

Sony Betamax was unable to shrink that form any further, so instead they developed Video8 / Hi8 which was in direct competition with the VHS-C / S-VHS-C format throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

In the region where auks live, their only seabird competition is the cormorants ( which dive powered by their strong feet ); in areas where the two groups feed on the same prey, the auks tend to feed further offshore.

Strengthening economic competition between communities further supports the creation of authentic regions within the EU and almost all EU member states recently have or currently are re-organizing their administration to create competitive EU regions.

In Grand Slam competition she never went further than the semifinals ( three, all at the French Open, 1977 – 79 ).

The show led to further TV ratings competition with WCW, up against WCW Thunder.

The car's weight is reduced for a full competition drag Beetle, further improving the grip and also the power-to-weight ratio.

In 2012 a further competition was held, as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, with Armagh receiving the distinction.

Fares were reduced in 1787 due to competition from Anderson's Ferry, located further upstream near Marietta.

Finally, with the further expansion of the UEFA Champions League to include as many as three or four teams from the top footballing nations, the decision was taken to abolish the competition after the end of the 1998 / 99 tournament.