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.

As gold became harder to find and competition increased, animosity toward the Chinese and other foreigners increased.

Farm products were subject to unstable prices due to foreign competition, and the slowness of Italian farming contrasted to more efficient foreigners.

The Bahmani Sultanate adopted the patterns established by the Delhi overlords in tax collection and administration, but its downfall was caused in large measure by the competition and hatred between deccani ( domiciled Muslim immigrants and local converts ) and paradesi ( foreigners or officials in temporary service ).

Because foreigners represented competition for employment, they were especially unwelcome.

Go secrets were state secrets, in effect ; since the country was closed to foreigners, in the main, the only international competition was against players from the Ryukyu Islands, but those games are still cited as examples of the difference between strong amateurs and really strong players.

In addition to existing four foreigners, the club brought in Argentine ace Abel Balbo thus increasing the competition for three foreign spots.

There are also new traditions, one in particular started by a participant in the JET program 10 years ago, called mud volleyball, in which locals and foreigners have an informal " soft-volleyball " competition in rice paddies.

Proponents argue that the competition spurred by vouchers and education tax credits increases the quality and efficiencies of both eligible private schools and local public schools, as they both must perpetually improve in order to maintain enrollment caused by the competitive nature of dollar voting and the swift accountability that results from increasing consumer sovereignty-allowing individuals to control what product or service they prefer to buy as opposed to a bureaucracy.

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

Undercutting the competition, for he had no need to make a profit ( having effectively limitless funds from NCR ), he gradually monopolized the business ; until he was able to buy out the competitors, which he promptly did.

In 1976, banks were allowed to buy and sell stocks, which provided more competition for stockbrokers.

He went so far as to hire agents in other states and territories to find such samples, to buy hundreds of copies for himself and to give the editor a free revolver for writing them, particularly if such a story disparaged his competition.

The competition noticed, and from 1959 it would become possible to buy an Opel Rekord with four doors.

As there is no competition, consumers usually buy standard mobile phones that are not locked to any specific carrier.

This change for Gerry proved to be a good one and as the sales manager he got to buy and sell many sports, GT and competition cars.

" However, CBS optioned to buy the show after its second year on MTV in hopes of increasing viewership among younger demographics and potentially providing competition against NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Cohen and other Pentagon leaders began to worry that vertical integration could reduce competition and in the long run increase the costs of what the Department of Defense had to buy.

His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and a " competition orange " Chevrolet Corvette.

The venture failed because of competition from other cars and the Bulgarian government's failure to honour agreements to reduce tariffs on imported parts and buy thousands of Maestros for government departments.

A monopoly is thus granted against them to a foreign nation ; and they must frequently buy the foreign goods they have occasion for dearer than if the free competition of other nations was admitted.

Haszard wasn't having fun any more, and when his chief competition, Transoft offered to buy him out, he accepted.

They were never in competition in business, and in the early 1900s, the Souls asked Pattinson to buy their business.

They were looking to the long term, and tried a number of strategies to strengthen their position, including offering to buy the Gregynog Press so that they could close it down and reduce the competition.

Neutrality proponents claim that telecom companies seek to impose a tiered service model in order to control the pipeline and thereby remove competition, create artificial scarcity, and oblige subscribers to buy their otherwise uncompetitive services.

Despite widespread opposition against that deal, the known existence of at least four other serious and much less controversial contenders to buy the Radiomédia stations, and numerous allegations to the effect that Corus Entertainment's offer was actually part of a larger plan to prevent any meaningful competition to its new FM talk format ( as Corus seemed to try to weaken and steal listeners from CKAC and not from the increasingly popular CBF-FM, and its sales representatives claimed to clients that they would be better advised to buy advertising at CHMP-FM and not CKAC as they pretended the latter was going to close shortly no matter what would happen ), the deal was approved in January 2005 by the CRTC in the midst of strong rumours that Astral Media would close CKAC if the deal was not approved.

Baffling the mind, the remaining SAQ branches would also have been sheltered from competition from the privatized stores, which would have been required to buy their merchandise from the SAQ at fixed prices.

The Leisure Hive is facing bankruptcy because of falling tourist trade ( through stiff competition from other Leisure Planets ) and the Argolin ’ s Earth agent, Brock, arrives with his lawyer Klout, bearing an offer to buy the planet outright.

Asterix asks if Wine and Charcoal shops next to each other causes competition, but Winesandspirix says they buy Wine and Charcoal from each other.

This, coupled with increasing competition from nearby centres such as Clapham Junction, Wimbledon and Putney, led to a severe decline in the fortunes of the centre-at one stage it was said that the centre had seen the influx of so many downmarket shops that " it's become hard to buy anything at the centre for over £ 1 ".

Firstly, he had planned to buy out the Canadian Northern Railway ( CNoR ) but the company resisted and instead provided competition.