Example collocations logo

Competition in sentence

2938 examples of Competition in a sentence

For example, Argentina’s military dictatorship, which staged the 1978 competition, sought to bolster its own position by sharing in the host team’s ultimate victory.
The fact that UberPOP drivers, unlike taxi drivers, do not cover passenger insurance also amounts to unfair competition, and must be remedied.
A multitude of sectors, from car dealing to dentistry, are shielded from competition.
It sees competition as the most effective means to promote economic growth, but also embraces state interference, when necessary, to secure equality of opportunity, social solidarity, and social balance.
Owing to the effects of global competition, hampering technological diffusion in one domain would simply dampen overall prosperity.
If not, citizens may demand protection from foreign competition.
One is that they intervene directly in markets, both domestic and across borders, to reduce competition and volatility while they rebuild their buffering capacity.
Movements like the Tea Party have thus tended keep in check those who, after a crisis of the sort that America has had, typically want more government action, including curbing markets and competition.
China wants the link defined as domestic in nature, with rights reserved exclusively to airlines registered on either side, while Taiwan insists that services be open to foreign competition.
Despite these positive developments, however, mini-grids’ full potential to lay the foundation for rural economic development will remain unrealized until politicians, regulators, and international development practitioners embrace decentralized grids as viable, complementary, and inter-operable solutions to energy poverty, rather than sources of competition for traditional power utilities.
To understand how important technology is to the young African farmer, consider competition for land.
China’s rush to build more dams promises to roil relations across Asia, fostering greater competition for water and impeding the already slow progress toward institutionalizing regional cooperation and integration.
This strategy is not only desperate; it is also delusive, for it seems obvious that, if the planet is to remain habitable, competition in economic growth must give way to competition in quality of life.
In short, producers of more sophisticated goods and services in developed and emerging-market countries need to be prepared for growing competition from China.
A new constitution, proposed by the king and adopted in a referendum in July 2011, has already generated robust political competition.
The contemporary United States also is not a compelling demonstration that competition between two parties leads to increasing moderation and political centrism.
In a globally inter-connected world, however, a new politics has developed, in which both the left and right fringes fear that outside competition or influences will limit their ability to shape political choices.
Each ideological grouping would most likely become factionalized along complex national lines – divisions likely to be reflected in the ensuing competition to be charismatic.
The basic lessons of US success should be recognized: macroeconomic stability; budgetary prudence; global trade, competition and de-monopolization in telecommunications and finance; and an active industrial policy geared towards a knowledge-based economy, building upon science, research and development, information technology, and higher education.
These "outsiders" were often neglected in Europe's traditional political competition, and their demands received little or no attention.
What these newly influential voters want is clear: less immigration, crackdowns on crime, more economic opportunities, but also more protection against economic risk and international competition.
But globalization also increases competition and exposes weaknesses.
While most of the world may have missed it, there is an ongoing competition between Iraq’s Najaf and Iran’s Qom over which city is holier.
If, while learning, you face competition from those with experience, you will never live long enough to acquire the experience yourself.
The problem with trade protection is that restricting foreign competition also means preventing access to inputs and knowhow.
Participating in global value chains is an alternative way to learn by doing that is potentially more powerful than closing markets to foreign competition.
The relentless competition for talent and skills is being underscored daily by the increases in R&D investment in China and India, whose growing middle classes are only too keen to seek better educational opportunities for their children.
Science and technology have an enormous stake in this development, and worldwide competition for the best brains is already acutely felt in European universities.
In other words, individuals – usually assumed to be identical – fully use all available information to forecast the future in an environment of perfect competition, no capital market shortcomings, and full insurance of all risks.
Prodi’s Commission now proposes to negotiate with any country that meets the political criteria (stable democracy and respect for human/minority rights) and not insist on the satisfaction of difficult economic criteria (a functioning market economy and readiness to withstand EU competition) as a prerequisite for negotiations.
BackNext