Having finished off a host of lesser competitors, the heirs to Alexander's empire then proceeded to fight each other.

Morgan has said elite runners focus on their body signals while lesser competitors benefit more by letting their minds wander and tuning in to their environment.

The other, Peter May, said he was tossing seeds to other park birds one day when Zelda muscled in, driving her lesser competitors away.

At first, "Flushed Away" does not seem so different from its lesser competitors, even as it dares to aim a few mocking jabs at Pixar, the top dog in the computer-animation world.

Instead, their aim has been to buy market share, foregoing profits today in the hope of gains in the future when lesser competitors are driven out.

A related concept is the giant-killer, which refers to a lesser competitor who defeats a favorite.

Graf, whose tennis has become progressively stronger as the tournament has worn on and lesser competitors have worn down, dominated her opponent, 6-1, 6-2.

He then explains that he has solved the problems his lesser competitors couldn't.

The statistical lines of pitchers have changed, not because the pool is filled with lesser competitors, but because the same amount of effort simply does not go as far as it once did.

ABC had to go against what was then a prime-time juggernaut at NBC, while this year CBS is facing two lesser competitors.