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

In an ordinary auction (also known as a forward auction), buyers compete to obtain a good or service by offering increasingly higher prices.

Several oil companies have competed for leases on the area, and on 6 February 2008, the U.S. government announced the successful bidders would pay US 2.6 billion for extraction rights.

Fund raising throughout the system is often of a competitive nature, with the different fund raising capacities of the funds, programmes and agencies competing for donor funding.

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

Under the new electoral system, all of these parties will be competing with each other for the same votes, and each one will seek to protect its own constituency or claim credit for whatever is accomplished.

Fifth, and finally, draft resolution A 59 L.68 provides for meaningful and effective Security Council reform, but without forcing divisive and potentially damaging votes on the General Assembly as individual States vie among themselves for special status.

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.

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.

In political terms, China, India, and Russia are vying with each other for power in Asia.

Also, private companies compete.

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

In the Swiss system, several parties compete, but they do not aim to control the government exclusively.

All who gathered in Thimphu agreed on the importance of pursuing happiness rather than pursuing national income.

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 .

There was no way we were going to get a sample from that.

The oxygen is bound by metabolism, we use it for energy.

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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.

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

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

Many doctors struggle to obtain proper consent.

People queue outside a bakery to get bread in Gaza.

For a table of the thirty two points, see compass points.

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Television is the most popular source of information.

Molten salts have been used to good effect.

The residents used the spring to obtain water for domestic purposes.

My attempts to receive explanations were never answered.

It offers companies a fair chance to achieve returns.

(a) There are no reasonably available local remedies to provide effective redress, or the local remedies provide no reasonable possibility of such redress

In pursuit of protein rich meals, Nkhoma is pushing her cluster of villages, representing a thousand households in all, to begin raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk, and exotic vegetables such as cabbage for vitamins.

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.

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

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.

The cells will use glucose for energy as normal, and any glucose not used for energy will enter the polyol pathway and be converted into sorbitol.