One is to steal secrets and gain an asymmetrical advantage over another country.

Likewise, if too many herbivorous fish are removed, algae gain a competitive advantage over the corals.

MISs can help a company gain a competitive advantage.

Every country must selfishly use a surge strategy to gain advantage.

After all, the firm would gain only a temporary advantage at best.

Some US industries, such as chemicals and plastics, will gain a significant comparative advantage in production costs.

Armed groups travelled back and forth across borders conflicts within different countries became intertwined alliances among Governments and rebel movements in the region shifted as each sought to gain advantage over others.

Let not the deniers of the truth be deluded that they will gain any advantage . Surely , they , can never overcome Us !

Let not the deniers of the truth be deluded that they will gain any advantage . Surely , they , can never overcome Us !

Because insiders gain the full benefits that arise through lobbying for lax corporate governance rules, while their firms bear most of the costs of such lobbying, insiders have an advantage in the competition for influence over politicians.

One key advantage (if not the key advantage) of capitalism over central planning is the information conveyed by market prices.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Similarly, in Nepal, a Maoist insurgency has taken advantage of divisions between the King and parliament to gain control of much of the countryside.

When one species has even the slightest advantage or edge over another then the one with the advantage will dominate in the long term.

The Panel will also take advantage of extensive online and offline efforts to engage with people worldwide and gain insight into the future that they envision.

No power can be preeminent if it cannot maintain its military advantage over rivals.

A United Nations commission concluded that government forces deliberately target medical personnel to gain military advantage, denying treatment to wounded fighters and civilians as a matter of policy.

Putin s regime is based on rule by force, manifested in repression at home and aggression abroad. But it has been able to gain a tactical advantage, at least in the short term, over the EU and the United States, which are determined to avoid direct military confrontation.

By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India s capacity for economic growth.

If China proves itself willing to help shore up Afghan President Hamid Karzai s administration, it will not seek to gain any immediate advantage from the withdrawal of US forces.

Thus, for China to gain maximum advantage from private entrepreneurship, it is important to continue shifting the share of financial assets and land holdings out of the public sector.

The implicit subsidy to banks means that German banks have an advantage over those of other countries.

From a political perspective, OSS offers another element of comparative advantage over proprietary software, namely national security.

Over tens of thousands of generations, such skills increased the status of those who displayed them and gained a reproductive advantage over the less capable.

The EU s current economic upturn suggests that the strategy is working, particularly after its renewal in 2005. But some areas in which Europe could gain a competitive advantage have been neglected.

As long as China, Japan, and South Korea regard every encounter with one another as an opportunity to settle scores or gain some strategic advantage, brinkmanship will remain Northeast Asia s fate.

The one advantage that they had over most of you is wisdom, because they had a long life.

With the launch of in 1906, the British Empire expanded on its significant advantage over its German rival.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

The Sub Commission has an advantage over other human rights bodies with regard to situations of widespread violations.

If left unchecked, China may use the South China Sea disputes to gain effective hegemony over weaker claimants.

We want to win over the masses, gain strength, and make a stand with protests on the streets.

It is essential to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the current relative abundance of capital in the region, a short term gain which starts to erode when oil prices fall.

Because the Internet was designed for ease of use rather than security, attackers currently have the advantage over defenders.

It should take precedence over narrow self interest or the potential profit opportunities associated with exploiting an informational advantage.

But cutting nuclear weapons to a bare minimum in the current conditions would give a big advantage to small nuclear powers, which will see their nuclear potential gain near parity with larger states.

Taking advantage of the French bureaucracy s precision, Piketty was able to reconstruct the French national accounts over nearly two centuries.

The main advantage that academic economists have over professional forecasters may be their greater awareness of established relationships between factors.

If ye gain the mastery over them in war , disperse , with them , those who follow them , that they may remember .

If ye gain the mastery over them in war , disperse , with them , those who follow them , that they may remember .

The logic of centrality as a source of power creates a virtuous circle, in which members of a network gain advantage by bringing more members into the network and connecting more densely to them.

The creed of the Prize did not depend so much on the merit of the winners, as much as the understanding that the Prize was a powerful means to gain prestige, publicity, and advantage.

The Arabic website continued to gain visitors over the past 12 months, receiving over 193,000 visits and registering 849,000 page views on various pages and files within the site.

Catherine the Great of Russia took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus.

In addition, tourism was one of the few industries in which most developing countries had a comparative advantage over developed countries.