This competition involves teams from Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Namibia, Netherlands, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates.

Two differences between the two are that monopolistic competition produces heterogeneous products and that monopolistic competition involves a great deal of non-price competition, which is based on subtle product differentiation.

Most commonly, intrasexual selection involves male – male competition and intersexual selection involves female choice of suitable males, due to the generally greater investment of resources for a female than a male in a single offspring.

Swimming as a sport predominantly involves competition amongst participants to be the fastest over a given distance under self propulsion.

Taekwondo competition typically involves sparring, breaking, patterns, and self-defense ( hosinsul ).

This still involves two riders on the track at the same time but they are not directly competing against each other but attempting to set the fastest time to progress in the competition.

This still involves two teams on the track at the same time but they are not directly competing against each other but attempting to set the fastest time to progress in the competition.

The third day sees intense competition between the riders in a harmless form of jousting that involves spearing a suspended ring with a lance at considerable speed.

The Peruvian town of Churin has an annual festival which involves dressing guinea pigs in elaborate costumes for a competition.

The current Super Rugby playoff involves six teams — the winners of each of three conferences ( Australia, New Zealand and South Africa conferences ), plus the three non-winners with the most competition points without regard to conference affiliation.

It involves a combination of political differences over the loyalist ceasefires, rivalry between loyalists over control of territory and competition over the proceeds of organised crime.

Bronc riding, either saddle bronc or bareback bronc competition, is a rodeo event that involves a rodeo participant riding on a horse ( sometimes called a bronc or bronco ), that attempts to throw or buck off the rider.

The competition involves learning the correct spelling of words, their use in sentences and in multiple contexts.

The competition involves teams of three riders representing their nations.

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The competition which involves human ' birdmen ' attempting to fly off the end of a pier into the sea for prize money.

The competition involves running off an elevated ramp at the end of a pier and attempting to ' fly ' the furthest distance.

It is a multi-faceted competition between freshmen and sophomore girls that involves song, play and oration.

Duet Acting involves two people, two chairs, and ( in some jurisdictions ) a table ; the furniture is supplied in each room of competition.

Also called " Nationals " by many forensic competitors, the National Tournament involves competition between NFL competitors across the United States ; thousands of competitors from across the country attend each year.

A merger or acquisition involves, from a competition law perspective, the concentration of economic power in the hands of fewer than before.

All cards from the remaining sets are allowed except cards involving ante, any card that is " flipped " on the table, and Shahrazad, which involves playing a " subgame ", as the DCI considers such cards inappropriate for tournament competition.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

With the lack of international competition, representative matches between state teams were regarded with great importance.

In 2009, the state monopolies on insurance and telecommunications ( in which one often needed to wait months to get a cellular phone line ) were opened to private-sector competition.

Certain other state agencies enjoy considerable operational independence and autonomy ; they include the electrical power, the nationalized commercial banks ( which are open to competition from private banks ), and the social security agency.

High school diving and swimming concludes their season with a state competition.

Bellamy's vision of a country relieved of its social ills through abandonment of the principle of competition and establishment of state ownership of industry proved an appealing panacea to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age America.

Léon Walras, one of the founders of the neoclassical school of economics who helped formulate the general equilibrium theory, argued that free competition could only be realized under conditions of state ownership of natural resources and land.

Judah prospered as an Assyrian vassal state, despite a disastrous rebellion against Sennacherib ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, and the ensuing competition between the Egyptian and Neo-Babylonian empires for control of Palestine led to the destruction of Judah in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582.

Some mutualists believe that if the state did not intervene, as a result of increased competition in the marketplace, individuals would receive no more income than that in proportion to the amount of labor they exert.

Some of them argue that if state intervention ceased, these types of incomes would disappear due to increased competition in capital.

Other characteristics found in this work are the unadorned dress, in which the eyes and hands have no competition from other details, the dramatic landscape background in which the world seems to be in a state of flux, the subdued colouring and the extremely smooth nature of the painterly technique, employing oils, but laid on much like tempera and blended on the surface so that the brushstrokes are indistinguishable.

The export-orientated approach has encouraged liberalisation supported by strong state involvement as a facilitator ( of the enabling environment for the private sector ); as operator ( to encourage competition ); and as regulator ( to protect the economy as well as vulnerable groups and sectors from shocks ).

Above all, if some public goods are provided by the state, he believed that they should not be a legal monopoly where private competition is prohibited ; for example, he wrote:

A number of finds from the American Southwest have yet to be formally submitted to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, as many finders think it is unwise to publicly state the coordinates of their discoveries for fear of confiscation by the federal government, and fear competition with other hunters at published find sites.

As for natural monopolies, opponents of privatisation claim that they aren't subject to fair competition, and better administrated by the state.

Gradually, the nature of professional wrestling became an open secret, although American promotions ' events were still often regulated by state athletic commissions through the 1980s, until World Wrestling Federation owner Vince McMahon publicly admitted that wrestling was entertainment, not competition.

Coubertin had originally opposed the choice of Greece, as he had concerns about the ability of a weakened Greek state to host the competition, but was convinced by Vikelas to support the idea.

Syndicalists state that society is to be organised bottom-up based on direct democracy, confederation, workplace democracy and decentralized socialism, and that to get to such a society they may either initiate a general strike through direct action and workplace occupation or-in the case of reformist syndicalists-develop the syndicalist economics alongside the state, in competition to it.

By the mid twentieth century the Crossbow Corps had become largely defunct, save for parading on state holidays ; but in 1956 the practice of training its members in crossbow shooting was revived, and a ' Crossbow Federation ' was formed to encourage competition in this art, so that the unit ( although still entirely ceremonial in nature ) now again has a very active existence.

In addition to the periodic celebration, there is a national recipe competition where submissions are accepted at the top forty state fairs in the nation.

The hero, Nick Haflinger, is a runaway from Tarnover, a government program intended to find, educate and indoctrinate highly gifted children to further the interests of the state in a future where quantitative analysis backed by the tacit threat of coercion has replaced overt military and economic power as the deciding factor in international competition.

As the Loewe set had only one tube socket, it was able to substantially undercut the competition since, in Germany, state tax was levied by the number of sockets.

An important base for the first definition of market socialism in economic theory is the Lange Model, which states that an economy in which all production is performed by the state, but in which there is a functioning price mechanism, has similar properties to a market economy under perfect competition, in that it achieves Pareto efficiency.