In other countries, notably the United Kingdom, completions mostly take place on tarmac courses, occasionally closed public roads, with the machines used for competition being similar to those used for road disciplines.

The St Helena Advocate and Weekly Journal of News, published in 1851, was the first island newspaper, but closed two years later mainly due to competition from the government-funded St Helena Chronicle ( 1852 ).

In 1997 the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi beat out ten other international architects to win the competition to execute the redesign of the museum, which after being closed in Manhattan for a time during the process ( a temporary space was opened in Long Island City, Queens ) reopened in 2004.

With the mill affected by a decline in local supplies and overseas competition, it closed in 1881, after which the machinery was removed and the buildings demolished.

The Salem Academy ( by then known as the " South Salem Academy ") closed in 1907 due to competition from other schools, and since that time, the village has declined in population.

Eventually competition began to wear away at the profitability of the company, with a devastating fire in 1897 destroying the plant and forcing operations closed.

The Atlas Portland Cement Company was based there, until it was closed in 1982, due largely to foreign competition.

The Wise County Coal Company was formed and was a leading producer of coal for the state until competition from natural gas and petroleum closed the coal mines in 1929.

Many of the downtown businesses have closed due to competition with larger chain retailers located in nearby Summersville.

Due to high competition, all of the Japanese locations were closed in 2001 ; however, BK reentered the Japanese market in June 2007.

This was the case in 1973 when the quarries closed with competition from the imported iron ore.

It was the first British shoe factory to introduce music in the workplace ( 1936 ), and washable children ’ s sandals (‘ Plastisha ’ 1957 ), but it closed in 1989 as a result of competition from cheap imports.

The narrow gauge lines suffered most severely from road competition ; many thousands of miles of narrow gauge lines closed during the 1930s.

The Walnut Tree ( rebranded in the 1970s from the Clarence Hotel, and before that as the New Inn ) which now provides the only hotel accommodation in the town, was formerly in competition with the George Hotel ( now closed ), where monthly petty sessions ( court hearings ) were formerly held.

Other competitors such as ' Simago ' and ' Galerías Preciados ' closed in the 1990s, however El Corte Inglés, faces major competition from French discount operators such as Carrefour and Auchan.

However, it was closed in 1932, due to competition with buses, trucks and cars.

But as competition heated up, losses mounted and stores were closed.

It was published five days a week from September 2006 to September 2009, when it closed faced with competition from other free papers.

The AMF and Murray plants later closed and were relocated to other states after increasing competition forced retooling, modernization, and a reduction in per-unit labor costs.

In 1980, the Schwinn factory, hard hit by foreign competition and in need of complete modernization, also closed its doors.

However, the publishing house closed 5 years later due to a combination of the economic crisis sweeping Argentina in the 1960s, foreign competition, and the exodus of Argentine comic artists to Europe.

The industry has markedly declined since the 1970s, large footwear manufacturers such as Dolcis, Freeman, Hardy and Willis, Frank Wright and Timpsons, having left the town or closed down in the face of stiff overseas competition, while others have outsourced their production to lower-cost countries.

It closed progressively between 1898 and 1951, as a result of subsidence and competition from the railways, and much of its course is now buried beneath the A470 Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil trunk road.

Many of these businesses have now closed due to competition from the Far East, but a very few still continue into the 21st century.

This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

But automation and the increasing complexity of factories has renewed the competition for jobs.

But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

This section shall not apply to corporations purchasing such stock solely for investment and not using the same by voting or otherwise to bring about, or in attempting to bring about, the substantial lessening of competition.

and that competition for this share of the market was endangered by the financial relationship between the two concerns: ``

The physical education program for men recognizes the value of participation in competitive sports in the development of the individual student and aims to give every man an opportunity to enter some form of athletic competition, either intercollegiate or intramural.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

If you are up against private brand competition, have you formulated a long-term program for researching and strengthening your market position??

It is accentuated by the need for pre-selling goods, and private label competition.

Are you following competition willy-nilly -- trying to match dollar for dollar -- or are you experimenting with new means for reaching and influencing consumers??

The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.

Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.

This means the aircraft companies are going to tear into the government market, looking for anything they can get and making the competition tough.

Auto racing ( also known as automobile racing or car racing ) is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

Most players bid low amounts between one and ten points in an initial bid in order to feel out the competition and to save points for other uses.

After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.

* Academic Sports League, an academic organization set up as round one competition for the USAD in Erie, PA

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

The Barbershop Harmony Society provides a highly organized competition structure for a cappella quartets and choruses singing in the barbershop style.