Competition from other steamship lines has cut Cunard's share of sea passengers from one-third to one-fourth and this year the line showed a marked drop of profits on the Atlantic run.

The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

Competition from lower-cost Asian and Latin American loggers has hurt the local industry, which is encumbered with high transportation and labor costs.

Competition from the railway network from the 1830s, and in the 20th century the roads, made the smaller canals obsolete for most commercial transportation, and many of the British canals fell into decay.

Competition from Homo sapiens probably contributed to Neanderthal extinction.

Competition winners from the remaining 25 Member States will name the satellites which will be launched until 2019.

" The competition differs from the XYZZY Awards, as authors must specifically submit games to the Interactive Fiction Competition, but all games released in the past year are eligible for the XYZZY Awards.

Competition from placental mammals from the north drove sparassodonts to extinction, while didelphimorphs ( opossums ) invaded Central America, with the Virginia opossum reaching as far north as Canada.

** US " Competition Package " option dropped from production at end of 1982 model year.

However, it still receives criticisms ( see later ) from smaller operators and the Competition Commission for setting South African broadband pricing in its favour.

Competition from its traditional rivals ( like Montgomery Ward ) continued, with new competition by retailing giants such as Kmart, Kohl's, and Wal-Mart.

Competition for land was a primary cause of the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, in which the Taranaki and Waikato regions were invaded by colonial troops and Māori of these regions had much of their land taken from them.

* American Scholastics Competition Network ( ASCN ) hosted a national tournament from 1987 through 2005 in the Chicago area.

They also constitute 24 % of all Olympic Seattle Scholarship winners, 33 % of USA Math Olympiad winners, 15. 5 % of Putnam Math Competition winners, and 36 % of Duke Talent Identification Grand Recognition Ceremony attendees from the Dallas Metropolitan area.

In the 1990s with the rise of the Academic Competition Federation and National Academic Quiz Tournaments, both with their own national championships, a number of schools ( such as the University of Maryland, the University of Chicago, both former national champions, and recent runner up Georgia Tech ) " de-affiliated " from College Bowl.

Rallying itself can be traced back to the 1894 Paris – Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition ( Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux ), sponsored by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, which attracted considerable public interest and entries from leading manufacturers.

In 2004, France Télécom is likely to have to pay back € 1 billion in alleged unlawful subsidies ( in breach of state aid rules ) it received from the French government, following an 18-month investigation by Mario Monti, the EC Competition Commissioner.

The relationship between the " Discount Yield " and the Rate of Return on other financial assets is usually discussed in such economic and financial theories involving the inter-relation between various Market Prices, and the achievement of Pareto Optimality through the operations in the Capitalistic Price Mechanism ,< Ref Name =" Economics_Discount "/> as well as in the discussion of the " Efficient ( Financial ) Market Hypothesis ".< Ref Name =" Finance_Discount "/>< Ref Name =" Economics_Competition "> Competition from other firms who offer other Financial Assets that promise the Market Rate of Return forces the person who is asking for a delay in payment to offer a " Discount Yield " that is the same as the Market Rate of Return .</ ref > The person delaying the payment of the current Liability is essentially compensating the person to whom he / she owes money for the lost revenue that could be earned from an investment during the time period covered by the delay in payment.

Competition from private broadcasters like CTV, Global, and other broadcast television stations and specialty channels has lessened the CBC ’ s reach, but nevertheless it remains a major influence on Canadian popular culture.

In California, the passage of AB2987 or " The Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 ," has changed the laws by which cable TV companies operate and as a result many public-access television studios in the state have closed.

The tournament was not rugby league ’ s first foray into evening television ; the 1955-56 season saw a tournament titled the ITV Floodlit Competition.

Competition from television was one reason for the change.

Together with Republican Thomas Kean, Jr. and fellow Democrat Raymond Lesniak, Sweeney sponsored Senate Bill S2664, the " Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act " in 2011, which Verizon says will encourage the firm to create additional jobs in the state, freeing the firm from regulations established when it was the landline monopoly requiring it to pay for service outages and to provide Government-access television ( GATV ) channels for municipalities on cable TV.

In order to address this problem, the Cable Television Protection and Competition Act of 1992 was passed to regulate cable television rates that cable operators charged consumers.

In 1974, Kobayashi won the 1st prize and the special award at the International Conductors Competition on Hungarian television.

These include winning the All Ireland School Choir Competition broadcast on live RTE television and also winning both of their competitions in the Feis Ceol in Dublin.

It was called The Summertime Car Show and Sound Off Competition, which at its height drew upwards of 300 contestants and continued into the 1990s.

Competition from eating clubs, sports teams, and other student activities drew members away from the societies.

The merger of the two titles faced scrutiny by the Competition Authority as the resulting match up drew together IN & M ( publishers of the Irish Independent ) and The Irish Times ( the two Dublin-based broadsheets ).

Competition from commercial developments in suburban Chinese communities also drew wealth and professional immigrants away from downtown.

At age 21, he won the Gold Medal at the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1978, which earned him international recognition and drew great attention worldwide.

Just a few months after his time there, he drew international attention for the first time when he won the grand prize at the 1963 Vienna International Mozart Competition.

Competition from the newer lines and from improving road haulage had drawn away much of the Tramway's custom in particular, and Brill trains would often run without a single passenger.

By beating Colchester United away, in the 1st round of the Football League Cup Competition, they earned a home second round fixture against Premier League Club, Stoke City F. C ..

This included a historic win away against Munster in the semi-final, where they became only the second club to beat the Irish province at home in a European Competition.

Competition with adult plants may also be lower when seeds are transported away from their parent.

Competition fell away until only the News-Sun and the Hobbs Flare remained.

Competition includes Piedmont Triad International Airport near Greensboro, North Carolina, as an alternate and others farther away which have service from Southwest Airlines or international flights.

Competition from a multiple-screen movie theater led to the closing of the Princess Theatre in 1985.

Kannada actress Umashree won a Best Actress National Award for the movie Gulabi Talkies in 2009 ; the film also screened at Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, and won three awards: Best Film in Indian Competition, Best Actress in Indian Competition ( Umashree ), and Best Actor in Indian Competition ( Vinay BM ).

A portion of Ginastera's Piano Sonata No. 1 is performed in the movie The Competition, and the piece is included in the movie soundtrack.