United Nations Secretariat contractual restrictions, salary scales, grading of specialists and benefits are not competitive, even compared with those of other parts of the United Nations system.

When private jobs are no longer competitive, government jobs seem an easy solution to keeping people employed.

The dynamics of adjustment within the eurozone exacerbate the underlying imbalances Germany is becoming more competitive while the periphery remains uncompetitive.

But, as Hollande s recent declarations indicate, currency appreciation is the last thing that an uncompetitive country like France needs.

Second, parts of global supply chains that were not competitive are no longer protected by being adjacent to parts that were.

Silicon Valley CEOs say they will not expand in California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation, which make the state uncompetitive.

But cities are simply unable to cope with the influx of migrants on the current scale.

Although communism could, every now and then, coexist with private property, and sometimes with private enterprise, it could never coexist with civil society.

It does not want to see its industries outdated and uncompetitive.

There was an urgent need to enable those countries to become globally competitive on a sustainable basis.

Moreover, building competitive markets is essential to ensuring sustainable GDP growth.

Finally, export growth slowed, not primarily because Indian goods suddenly became uncompetitive, but because growth in the country s traditional export markets decelerated.

The aim is to bring these pilot enterprises into compliance with environmental standards, while taking into account their need to remain competitive and to deal with the social consequences of major technology upgrading.

The Chinese can t force Kim to disarm fully, but they can persuade him to negotiate with a now more flexible US.

It may also be necessary to develop new competitive technologies and innovative applications, especially at the level of increasingly export oriented enterprises.

Israel wants an end to the conflict but is incapable of paying the price, whereas Hamas can better reconcile its ideology with a peace agreement with Israel if it is not defined as final.

I was blind, I couldn't speak, and I couldn't walk.

The largest and best equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.

UNIDO assisted the Government of Egypt to prepare a white paper for A Competitive Egypt , and is starting a major project in Saudi Arabia for the design of strategies to enhance industrial competitiveness and diversification

The current government, however, is unable to supervise free and fair elections.

The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

Within the next three years, online bookmark services became competitive, with venture backed companies such as Backflip, Blink, Clip2, ClickMarks, HotLinks, and others entering the market.

Some of them prevailed and strengthened their position on the market, being able to compete with multinational tour operators like TUI, or Neckermann und Reisen with branches in Poland.

Japan s high tech industries remain competitive, and the country is still the world s second largest exporter. It retains a highly innovative economy, which registers more new patents each year than all European countries combined second only to the US and eons ahead of China and India.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

Force cannot accomplish everything.

This is regarded as inefficient because firms cannot adjust quickly to changing business conditions.

One payoff can come from Africans building distinctive satellite instruments, and thus spawning a globally competitive industry.

For example, a manager might intentionally promote an incompetent worker knowing that the worker will never be able to compete for the manager's job.

CA So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.

To encourage self help, international efforts must ensure that free competition goes together with fair competition.

If she survived, she would remain in a permanent vegetative state, never able to walk, talk or interact with others.

A government saving plan that is based on automatic, though not compulsory, enrollment has the ability to deal with this problem, if only imperfectly.

Many coal fired power plants would be uncompetitive if they were required to internalize these costs.

Four years later, there were about 400,000 personal computers in the Soviet Union, and 40 million in the US. According to one Soviet economist, by the late 1980 s, only 8 of Soviet industry was globally competitive.

Finally, even if the optimal fine can be assessed, the business to which it is applied may not be able to pay it.

Government forces were unable to counter the heavy fire and surrendered.

The investigation was not able to determine a probable cause of this accident.

Beyond this limit, errors in the genome when replicating render the virus useless or uncompetitive.

Most importantly, they have maintained competitive currencies, which is the best way to ensure high profits for manufacturers.

We found in our research that countries with competitive currencies were much more likely to experience growth enhancing structural change.

Skeptics doubt that foreign aid really helps.

First, it proved incapable of reconciling and representing its constituents interests.

Markets are not self correcting in the relevant time frame.

There is an unavoidable conflict of interest between (usually foreign) natural resource companies and host countries the former want to minimize what they pay, while the latter need to maximize it.