Enron aimed at getting a dominant position as the premier energy trader.

As the largest and most creditworthy country, Germany occupies a dominant position.

China s dominant position is now endangered by both external and internal factors.

The main threat to America's dominant position comes not from outside, but from within.

Some analysts argue that China aims to challenge America s position as the world s dominant power.

IBM built up a massively dominant position because it leased a carefully custom designed and individualized package.

If Americans fail to recognize that they may be wrong, they risk undermining the country's dominant position.

Germany did not seek to occupy a dominant position in Europe, and it is reluctant to accept the obligations and liabilities that such a position entails.

Over the last few years, the central banks of the largest advanced economies have assumed a quasi dominant policymaking position.

Leaders hold a position of power or authority, but those who lead inspire us.

A case in point may be that firms should refrain from abusing any dominant market position that an investment arrangement might offer.

Sebastian's grandmother is the first woman to hold a position of a judge in Navara.

Should Mousavi persuade Khamenei to reconsider his position, the Supreme Leader s hold on power will be shaken.

The Medici became the town's leading family, a position they would hold for the next three centuries.

From what he told the Swedish immigration authorities, he did not hold a leading position within the party.

Steinhoff is dominant in the neighbouring South African market and might abuse that position dominance in the Zimbabwean market by undercutting prices or becoming a price leader.

Those institutions that survived will hold a stronger market position than ever, and they will resist a systematic overhaul.

This outcome does not reflect a deliberate plan, but rather a series of policy mistakes. Germany did not seek to occupy a dominant position in Europe, and it is reluctant to accept the obligations and liabilities that such a position entails.

Of course, Microsoft ran into its own legal troubles when it took over IBM s former dominant position, waging long drawn out court cases on both sides of the Atlantic.

Europe s dominant position in many world markets means that for a while it will retain the clout to try to order the global agenda in ways that suit it.

Whereas Hezbollah and Amal swept the Shiite districts in the South and the Beqaa Valley, confirming their dominant position among Lebanon s Shiites, Aoun delivered less than half the Christian votes.

Psychosocial stress of this type not only alters cognitive function in lower ranking animals, but it can also promote disease (for example, atherosclerosis) among those vying for the dominant position.

On 4 November 1509, Albuquerque became the second Governor of the State of India, a position he would hold until his death.

That tendency remains dominant.

Alexandra Kollontai became the first female to hold a minister position, as the People's Commissar for Social Welfare in Soviet Russia in 1917.

As Norway was a separate kingdom, with its own laws and institutions, the position of steward of Norway was arguably the most influential position for a Danish Norwegian nobleman or royal to hold, second to the King.

Yet their pursuit of a dominant position on the strategic chokepoints in the Indian Ocean undermines these goals by raising tensions not only with India, but with Asia s other powers and the US.

The people who ran big business were often unscrupulous, and in some cases used their dominant market position to drive out their competitors enabling the surviving firms subsequently to restrict supply and raise prices.

2.1 On 11 January 1994, the author was appointed to the post of Family Court judge, a position that he continues to hold until today.

The need to adopt a family code should be emphasized in the light of the true position that women hold in a law based State.

The latter seems the dominant motive.

The public sector remains the dominant employer.

And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of years.

He was one of the few persons who were not born in China to hold a position of trust and authority in the People's Republic of China.

For foreign investors, the policy will be to expand greatly the range of opportunities while curtailing foreign control foreign companies, for example, may hold minority stakes in the telecoms sector, while dominant foreign companies like Monsanto will face constraints.

The majority of developing and least developed countries have concerns about the distribution of their own products, given the dominant position of foreign content providers, which in South Africa, for example, account for 98 per cent of the market.

Their choices are framed by their societies dominant culture.

Mladic, not Karadzic, was the dominant figure that evening.

However, in all political spheres, men are still dominant.

Is the United States position as the world s dominant superpower at risk if the dollar loses its super currency status? Maybe not, but Americans will certainly find global hegemony a lot more expensive if the dollar falls off its perch.

CAMBRIDGE Is the United States position as the world s dominant superpower at risk if the dollar loses its super currency status? Maybe not, but Americans will certainly find global hegemony a lot more expensive if the dollar falls off its perch.

The FTC held the view that KWL was entitled to advance its own commercial interests, but such behaviour was not acceptable under section 20 of the Fair Competition Act if its actual purpose was to strengthen and abuse its dominant position.

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

By the 1990 s, such conflicts were the dominant form.

The dominant note was one of complacency or even optimism.