For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge.

Brazil, meanwhile, aims to gain a competitive edge by making it easier for foreigners to immigrate with their families.

German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.

Uganda wants a strong local content in the nascent oil and gas industry for its citizens to gain skilled manpower and a competitive supply edge.

An assessment mission undertaken in Jordan in November 2004 showed that the EMPRETEC Programme can provide a competitive edge to SMEs in the global market.

In the late 1980 s, Japan seemed capable of challenging America s industrial leadership, but by the 1990 s it lost its competitive edge.

Such disturbing developments reveal the extent to which Governments and employers are prepared to suppress workers' rights to win a competitive edge in today's cut throat global markets.

For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge. They must be allowed to decline or move inland (and eventually decline).

The first option would require coercion, and since countries will not accept that others should gain a competitive edge an international agreement to forego the benefits that genetic enhancement can bring.

Their small size simultaneously creates a need to be competitive to survive and provides them the agility to do so., SMEs are often at the leading edge of technological development and innovation.

With America turning away from its global role of borrower of last resort, the rest of us will need to sharpen our competitive edge to sell in other markets.

In this regard, special and differential treatment should be accorded to landlocked developing countries to compensate for their geographical disadvantages which erode their competitive edge at the world market.

Societies that discover how to use the education and talent of half their populations, while allowing women and their partners to invest in their families, will have a competitive edge in the global knowledge innovation economy.

It was therefore a bizarre coincidence that the merger s collapse came on the day that the Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy for regaining Europe s competitive edge in the face of Asian and North American competition.

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The Raj era may be visible in the buildings of New Delhi and in the uniforms of the Indian army, but Britain has lost any competitive edge that it once had in India.

It's a pre competitive issue.

A positive edge between two nodes denotes a positive relationship (friendship, alliance, dating) and a negative edge between two nodes denotes a negative relationship (hatred, anger).

A year later, Greece remains on knife edge.

Here the free traders have a distinct edge.

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Additional border crossings and the long distance from major markets, coupled with cumbersome procedures and inadequate infrastructure, substantially increase the total expenses for the transport services that erode the competitive edge of landlocked developing countries.

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In this respect, TNCs from the South can use their familiarity with the local business environment, geographical proximity and ethnic and cultural ties to leverage their competitive edge in other developing countries (Aykut and Ratha, 2004).

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Economic stagnation on this scale has alarming implications, because it means less and less tax revenues to fund all the reform projects and infrastructural investments Europe badly needs to regain its productivity and high tech competitive edge.

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Some factors precluding foreign entry may be related to the size of the domestic market, given the low purchasing capacity of people in general, the weak competitive edge of domestic players and the lack of established physical infrastructure.

MISs can help a company gain a competitive advantage.

Before joining beFour he was a competitive athlete.

So once again, democracy in Nigeria is at a knife s edge.

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But fear not, claim advocates of unconventional monetary policy. What central banks cannot achieve with traditional tools can now be accomplished through the circuitous channels of wealth effects in asset markets or with the competitive edge gained from currency depreciation.

Finally, these are not women s issues, but social and economic issues. Societies that discover how to use the education and talent of half their populations, while allowing women and their partners to invest in their families, will have a competitive edge in the global knowledge innovation economy.

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Their development will be conducted on a competitive basis.

Some of the cases reviewed demonstrate that anti competitive practices such as collusion and abuse of dominance occur in a variety of sectors and that in many instances anti competitive practices involve a mixture of vertical and horizontal anti competitive practices.

Romano Prodi s government must operate on a razor s edge in the Senate.

The world financial system again stood at the edge of a precipice.

They camped at the water's edge.

Living at the edge of chaos.