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

Also, private companies compete.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In the 1990s, we saw financial centers around the world competing for their business, and there was simply no effective mechanism to prevent money laundering.

Today, Somalia remains a dysfunctional state, as rival clans, jihadists, and an interim government with Ethiopian support compete for power.

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

This is notably the case where entrenched groups Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis compete for central power.

Hundreds of websites now compete to be the new Mecca, the place where all devout Muslims turn for guidance.

The Indian states have substantial policy discretion and often compete to attract businesses and achieve rapid economic growth.

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

Early Confucian thinkers were writing in a world of small countries competing ruthlessly for territorial advantage.

The following is a list of squads for each nation competing in men's football at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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Pakistan competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.

Today, when economies compete for markets, not territories, intellectual property rights, as well as trade and investment, must be governed by global agreements.

At one point, more than 400 NGOs were on the ground in Aceh, Indonesia, competing for resources, personnel, and funding. Many of the lessons learned in Rwanda were forgotten or ignored as smaller NGOs with little or no experience in dealing with disasters caused much of the confusion.

These companies aren t all competing to build precisely the same kind of vehicle in fact, each considers its own approach superior.

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

It is countries like the US and Britain, with politically dominant financial sectors competing to take over financial leadership of the world, that suffered the heaviest losses.