The point of competition is to get consumers the best possible products and services, not to guarantee that every product has a precisely equal chance of succeeding.
Goode was at the heart of Leicester's best moves and the fly-half became the club's all-time leading competition point scorer with a penalty on eight minutes, overtaking Tim Stimpson's previous mark of 358 points.
Bruce Roe, who says he has been in more world competitions and taken more trophies (five) than any other American, believes that designating one category as superior to another misses the point of the competition.
That may be bluff, but it plays to the second point, momentum towards competition.
The point of any sports competition should be that the best teams have an opportunity to win.
The screenwriter, Robert Towne, seems to be trying to underplay the rah-rah elements of the material to give competition some point other than pure ego gratification.
My contention here is that the iPhone 5 represents not so much a turning point for Apple, but an inflection point, in its competition with Google for our love and attention.
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To keep all thumbs up, Netflix will have to keep delivering on its original brand promise: to offer the greatest choice of streaming video entertainment options possible, provided in the easiest, most user-friendly fashion at a price point that leaves the competition in the dust.
Samsung, in fact, are playing their design credentials close to their chests at this point, given who their competition is.
"It's crazy, four guys within two-hundredths on one of the toughest downhills in the world, " said Svindal, who leads the downhill standings by 92 points from Paris and has a 114-point advantage in the overall competition.
Draper likes getting in at this point because valuations are lower and competition is thinner.
At this point wages begin to rise as competition for workers becomes fiercer, and corporate profits are squeezed.
Mr Ayling pursued this deal with great determination, to the point of infuriating Europe's competition commissioner, Karel Van Miert.
Asked why "Idol's" ratings have softened, Darnell agreed with TV analysts who point to the flood of singing competition shows.
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But the sticking-point appears to be the Twenty20 competition after a summer where players faced a saturated fixture list which many found hard to swallow.
After last year's UK entrant, Andy Abraham, finished joint-bottom, commentators questioned whether there was any point in the country entering the competition amid allegations of political voting.
You identify a simple selling point that differentiates the product or service from its competition in the minds of consumers, and you use the branding to ensure that this selling point sticks.
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For the Chancellor, George Osborne, the point of the sale is to stimulate competition in the retail banking market.
But Lloyds is prohibited from selling to them, because the whole point of the disposal is to promote competition.
It first entered the Collins English dictionary in 2005 with the definition "the tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the leaders".
And with your help, West Point earned its first victory in the Sandhurst Competition in 18 years.
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Divers preparing for a competition have a sense of the point total they need to advance from the preliminary round to the next round and, ultimately, to place in a medalist position.
They point out that one cause of the new competition is that bookmakers were allowed to set up in Tattersalls, the big-money ring on courses, without serving an apprenticeship in the quids-and-dollars Silver Ring: when these neophytes come to a sticky end, competition will simmer down.
The philanthropy card is used only to trump the competition, not as a chief selling point.
He also points out that because this is older catalog titles it isn't much competition for Blu-ray at this point.
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It has already won numerous top medals in spirits competition and was given an impressive 92 point rating by the Wine Enthusiast.
Penn State held a 20.5-point lead over Oklahoma State to start Saturday's competition.
Through this ability to exit we then get competition between tax systems and this was the point of it all along.
Not only is video performance absolutely superb -- easily beating the competition -- sound quality is another strong point thanks to Nokia's Rich Recording technology, which uses MEMS digital microphones and enables clear, distortion-free audio capture at levels up to 140-145dBs.
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