After all, how could he even hope to compete with the likes of them?

How else could he hope to compete against her?

We perform many of these services for industrial clients, pay our taxes and hope to compete on a level playing field.

Small investors cannot hope to compete in the fundamentals game.

But education in rural communities could never hope to compete with that of the city.

How could one of the King's officers hope to compete with that?

Could I hope to compete, in my poor physical shape?

The sort of a woman that one like me can never hope to ever compete with.

How could it hope to compete in a new world of rising prices for such resources?

These included schools too small to hope to ever compete in major races and larger institutions not yet ready for such competition.