A Battle of the bands (n.) is an event where each band leaves with its friends the moment its set ends.
The Battle of the bands (n.) is where the loser's always the audience.
A Beauty contest (n.) keeps a talent round so everyone can pretend the rest of it is incidental
The Beauty contest (n.) is all about connections these days — it is more important to know somebody than to have some body.
Darwinian struggle (n.) is more of an assumption than a fact. It does occur, but only as an exception. The general condition of life is not one of want or famine, but rather one of riches, of lavish luxuriance, and even of absurd prodigality. Where there is a struggle, it is a struggle for power.
Free competition (n.) inside a nation had everywhere to be conquered by a revolution — 1640 and 1688 in England, 1789 in France.
Free competition (n.) ancient and celebrated ends by confessing its own scandalous bankruptcy, in chronic overproduction, depressed prices and falling or vanished profits.