So, while US states compete with the center for power, in Europe they increasingly compete with each other.

Plants compete with other plants for space, water, light and nutrients.

The company competes with other social networks such as Instagram.

We believe that they are complementary, not competing.

Finally, the state competes with the private sector via state owned enterprises and utilities.

Composition Stories must compete with one another for space in the media.

Governments compete with each other and with other organizations to enhance their own credibility and weaken that of their opponents.

WASHINGTON In most advanced democracies, a large center right party competes with a large center left party.

Political religions generally vie with existing traditional religions, and may try to replace or eradicate them.

Companies that provide content will increasingly find themselves competing with individuals who offer entertainment for free.

One of these claims competes with a previously paid category C claim the others compete with previously paid category D claims.

The SOEs compete in product and labor markets with the private sector, but less so in capital markets.

In the current pilot project, Tianjin in China s north and Shanghai in the south are competing against each other, prompting even more second guessing.

Germany had to contend with historically high unemployment, stemming from reunification with a sick East Germany.

Incomes produced by these illegal markets are huge, competing in size with Latin America s most successful legal commodities.

Thank you to whoever nominated me, it s really quite something to be running against wonderful major blogs such as TPM Muckraker, The Consumerist or MAKE ZINE.

Also, private companies compete.

They will compete with multinationals from a wide range of countries, and will become architects of global supply chains.

As much as the internet is challenging old media models, only a few organizations are innovating in the realm of international news in the way that we are.

History teaches us that rising powers inevitably compete with status quo leading powers, and that this conflict often leads to war.

Britain finished third in the gold medal count, behind the United States and China, much larger countries, but ahead of Russia, which traditionally competes with America for first place.

Along with the ABDC season two winner, Super Cr3w, Jabbawockeez were the opening act for the Battle of the VMAs ABDC special.

Its overall share of the markets in which it competes is around 40 .

Bollywood competes with California in terms of glamorous stars and big production numbers Japan and South Korea mint their own pop singers and fashion trends.

Disaster risk reduction competes with a variety of national priorities and development needs, and often receives little attention in budgeting and resource allocation.

Moreover, the same companies compete directly in the supply of innovative technologies.

Those 10 films will compete for the grand prize, and the one with more views for each category will win.

Russia s military also must compete with foreign customers for those few warplanes, tanks, and other sophisticated weapons that are produced.

But what is proposed now will make lending for investment even less attractive and increase the incentive to concentrate sovereign risk in the banking sector.

Peer to peer networks assaulting the recording industry free and open source software taking market share from Microsoft Skype potentially threatening traditional telecoms Wikipedia competing with online encyclopedias.

Economic openings to Central Asia and to ASEAN (specifically to Vietnam) are well underway, and reform will include further international opening.

Finding scholarships aimed at elevating the knowledge of women working with police, in order to insure that they do compete on equal footings with their male counterparts, for the executive positions available in the force.

Because if I want evolution, I need containers to compete.

France and Germany compete openly as alternative centers of influence vis à vis the smaller European states.

In the Swiss system, several parties compete, but they do not aim to control the government exclusively.

He rules through the presidential administration and competing secret police forces without ideology or party.

In political terms, China, India, and Russia are vying with each other for power in Asia.

Because of the popularity of XML, XQuery engines compete with object databases as a vehicle for storage of data that is too complex or variable to hold conveniently in a relational database.

They are put forward to help the proponents of various plans jockey for power and influence on both the regional and global stage.

Why does slow productivity growth translate into high costs? The problem is that service industries ultimately have to compete for workers in the same national labor pool as sectors with fast productivity growth, such as finance, manufacturing, and information technology.

She frequently competed in beauty pageants and won the title of Shelby County Tobacco Festival Queen in 1954.

But their model is obsolete, because Japan now competes directly with many other Asian and non Asian countries, where work habits are of the type that used to prevail among the Japanese.

As a result, it makes little sense for Germany to compete to have more solid budgets than its neighbors all European countries have tied themselves together.

This may be true when the economy is operating at full employment when state and market are in competition for every last resource.

I know some people think that it's now less open and democratic than it used to be, but compared to other organizations, I think there's still a lot there to emulate.