7 sentences with 'competed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word competed and other words derived from it.
• « Art and learning benefited enormously from the wealth of northern Italy precisely because the rich and powerful of the north competed to pay for the best art and the most innovative scholarship - without that form of cultural and political competition, it is doubtful that many of the masterpieces of Renaissance art would have been created. »
• « Germany, of course, was not united; Prussia and Austria competed with each other for dominance of German lands, but both were fundamentally conservative powers that did not become interested in "German" unification until later in the century. »
• « The arrival of Columbus in 1492 accelerated the rivalry between Spain and Portugal, and the two powers competed for dominance through the acquisition of new lands. »
• « Religious turmoil between Catholics and Protestants also influenced the history of the Atlantic world, as different nation-states competed not only for control of new territories but also for the pre-eminence of their religious beliefs within them. »
• « These new churches won converts and competed with older Protestant groups such as the Anglicans (members of the Church of England), the Congregationalists (the heirs of Puritanism in America) and the Quakers. »
• « Federalists and Democratic-Republicans competed for the votes of eligible New Jersey women. This radical innovation continued until 1807, when New Jersey restricted voting to free white males. »