noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a talent contest/show/competition
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Don’t assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
Competition Commission, the
fierce competition
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fierce competition between the companies
intense competition
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There is intense competition for places on the course.
international trade/market/competition
keen competition
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We won the contest in the face of keen competition .
stiff competition/opposition
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Graduates face stiff competition in getting jobs.
win a competition
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The competition was won by a team from Surrey.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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They try to minimize electronics imports from each other and are often in direct competition in export markets.
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Many of the companies appear to have avoided direct competition in the computer or semiconductor market by staking out a profitable niche.
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Cart transport survived both in direct competition on shorter routes and by taking goods to and from railway stations.
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The Justice Department must consider whether dry kibble and those waxy, doggy burger meals provide direct competition with canned food.
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This will put the public provider in direct and healthy competition with its private counterparts.
fierce
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The first two impressions of the report sell out before publication, and there is fierce competition for the paperback rights.
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One reason is obvious: fierce competition from Microsoft.
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In reality, the females are locked in fierce and intense competition .
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The situation changed when the recession of the early 1990s led to much fiercer international competition and emphasis on cost-cutting.
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There were few secondary schools in Rhodesia in the early 1950s so there was fierce competition for places.
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The result for customers could be fierce price competition and an explosion of service options.
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Remember, too, that he is hardly ever a monopolist: he works in fierce competition with fellow scalpers.
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The fiercest competition of all, therefore, is between the rival television channels.
foreign
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Instead both firms were to compete in the market against one another and against foreign competition .
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For Peter Pan is foreign competition .
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The main causes are new products, new technology and foreign competition .
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As the production of automobiles by domestic manufacturers fell due to foreign competition , Ramsey lost orders.
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Heavy industry was quailing before foreign competition , but the decline in traditional female areas of work was less steep.
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While other larger steel producers had struggled and often failed against foreign competition , Nucor succeeded.
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Freeing trade curbs domestic giants by exposing them to foreign competition .
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This will result in downward pressure on prices as domestic firms face foreign competition .
free
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First, interest rates are not to be left to market forces and free competition .
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It preserves the principles of consumer choice and free competition .
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But they told us: We welcome free and open competition in the ice cream market.
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They lie not in state socialist utopianism but in a respect for free competition .
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Cricket was even less open to the winds of free competition .
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They distorted the sacrosanct free play of competition .
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The era of free competition in the capitalist economy is over in all areas and in all respects.
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In a free market, competition drives prices down to the fair market price, with different prices on each street corner.
global
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Shortening product life cycles and rapid product proliferation mean that investment in innovation is critical in global competition .
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And that is where the new global economic competition must be waged and be won or lost.
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But global competition , by itself, is not necessarily enough.
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That is already true not only for ordinary workers who have felt the lash of the new global competition .
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Table 2.1 suggests, in simplified form, the changing factors that have shifted particular industries at different times towards global competition .
great
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The single market and economic and monetary union will expose regions and firms to greater competition .
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The Equity Issue Perhaps the greatest objection to competition between schools is based on a concern for equity.
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The Government said it would widen choice for viewers and listeners, safeguard quality programming and bring greater competition and efficiency.
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Is greater competition a good thing?
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One reason for this change is the greater competition among banks and the more aggressive lending policies that ensue.
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It is sustained by the greater desire of men to perform it and by their greater aptitude for competition .
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These include greater competition between financial institutions for deposits.
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And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition , she never lost her composure.
increased
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The figure was blamed on warm weather, increased competition and the recession.
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They did so under pressure of increased competition .
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Hopefully increased competition will stimulate a more rapid rate of innovation.
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It blames the redundancies on increased competition in the industry, but unions say there's no justification for the job losses.
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The increased level of competition between banks and building societies led to a greater degree of diversification of products.
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They have also had to face greatly increased competition both to get into drama school and into the profession.
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Of equal or greater importance than earnings in assessing the impact of increased fee competition is the impact on profit margins.
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During this decade, whilst there was increased competition , comparatively few policyholders decided to change underwriters with one particular exception.
intense
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The was particularly marked among former scheme port operators, where 67 percent reported more intense competition .
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Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
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Obviously there is intense competition from banks and building societies. 5.
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Adequate though not ideal for earlier times, they are thoroughly unsatisfactory in an era of intense competition .
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Between 200 and 300 new commercial stations could come on air in the 1990s and intense competition for advertising revenue is inevitable.
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To listen to Paul you would think there was an intense competition for class speaking time.
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Such things help to strike the ideal balance of intense competition , good fun and true rugby friendship.
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There was intense competition among companies to travel with Brown on his overseas trips, which frequently generated major deals.
international
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Moreover, the forces of international competition deal very harshly with failure, and failure c. can not be concealed.
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Such considerations also apply in international competition between large firms.
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The situation changed when the recession of the early 1990s led to much fiercer international competition and emphasis on cost-cutting.
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And this week has seen the launch of a new international singing competition in memory of Peter Pears.
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Increased international competition almost certainly contributed to holding down profit margins.
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I have discussed international competition , but of course there are also competitive pressures within the national economy.
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Third, all three continued to be engaged in international competition .
national
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Read in studio A Primary school has won a national competition to produce their own newspaper.
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John Monnett turned down a chance to take part in a national cheerleading competition in Florida next week.
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In both cases national competition laws will have to be complied with.
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With a national competition there will be some very valuable regional coverage to organise.
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Of the six national schools age-group competitions held this season, the Whitburn club has won five.
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The country's top paragliding experts were staging a national competition ... the first time it's been held in the region.
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Ultimately you may be able to take part in national obedience competitions .
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The railways were vital in facilitating pigeon-racing. National competitions entailed special trains to carry the birds to the agreed starting points.
open
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There is no system of open competition: the grant of articles, like kissing, goes by favour.
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The Communications Ministry said last month national and international long-distance markets would be open to competition this December.
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But they told us: We welcome free and open competition in the ice cream market.
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He survived a week of open competition from junior Tim Wolleck, but maybe not for long.
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The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions.
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BThis monopoly protection will end once the doors of the electric power business fully open to competition over the next few years.
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Roosevelt, like Churchill, saw the significance of postwar civil aviation, and believed in free and open competition .
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Also routes were not open to competition .
perfect
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The need to relax the assumptions of perfect competition , and that the economy has attained equilibrium, is apparent.
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Integrating transport costs into a general equilibrium trade model is a messy affair even with constant returns and perfect competition .
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The great claim made for perfect competition is that it leads to efficiency.
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The reason for this is probably that it implies oligopolies that behave in a way intermediate between perfect competition and monopoly.
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While learning this, the novice student also learns that perfect competition does not exist.
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Still central to much of contemporary price theory is the model of perfect competition .
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What happens under perfect competition to the after-tax distribution of income may therefore be ambiguous.
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Hence with our present framework perfect competition does not necessarily imply an efficient set of firms.
stiff
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Both projects, which were won against stiff competition , are for offshore fixed installations for Abu Dhabi based company Adma Opco.
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Superior products would evolve and stiff competition would sprout up as Roundup patent protections expired around the globe.
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For the male, it is a stiff competition , but even the strongest can be unwittingly foiled.
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Some worry that certain pieces of the technology business could be hurt by a slowing economy and stiff price competition .
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Whether the high jumper can requalify against stiff competition depends in large part upon the other big change: her takeoff.
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In Edinburgh, she will face her stiffest competition of the season.
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The planned deregulation has bred concern that Petron will face stiffer competition and an erosion of its 42 percent market share.
strong
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This boom in fast food is providing strong competition for both staff restaurants and school meal services.
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If it wasn't up against such strong competition , it would have been an award winner.
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Ipswich Town could run away with the title but there is strong competition for the second spot.
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More trade and stronger competition will keep prices in check.
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Private sector firms tend to be more efficient than public sector firms, provided both operate in markets facing strong competition .
unfair
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Crompton offers several different case studies where charges of unfair competition are made by the commercial sector provider against the government agency.
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Uniformity avoided the unfair economic competition which might have resulted if the setting of standards had been left to the states.
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It was felt by John Davis and others that the government was backing unfair competition with the commercial companies.
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It's unfair competition and unfair to the customer as well.
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This is successful marketing, not unfair competition .
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Part of the growth of road transport reflected the political tolerance of what unions and rail pressure groups regarded as unfair competition .
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It represents totally unfair competition , not only to Tennis World but also to Tennis Magazine.
■ NOUN
cup
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And the Chesterfield game will be his 61st in League Cup competition .
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To qualify for the Olympics, each country must have two shooters who have won first place in World Cup competition .
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Leeds are compiling an atrocious record in recent cup competitions .
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The Euro Cup competition links together a series of Continental races, with a points-scoring system producing an overall winner.
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Start Cup - Starts the cup competition .
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That means the Bangor club have lifted a double-double in league championship and cup competition this season.
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In one of the major cup competitions they have been given home advantage against first division Coventry.
policy
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It is that the appropriate design of policy and policy institutions is crucial to a successful competition policy.
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If the answer is entry barriers, this again demonstrates the close relation between industrial policy and competition policy.
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However, an effective competition policy needs power to control mergers because of the serious damage they may inflict on competition.
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There are at least three schools of thought about what competition policy is seeking to achieve.
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Throughout the whole of competition policy there is a presumption that intervention is justified in order to preserve the public interest.
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Our focus here is on the use of competition policy to achieve the same ends.
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There are three ways in which competition policy might be used to promote the interests of domestic producers.
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Yet the government as promoter at times conflicted with the government as regulator, particularly in the area of competition policy .
price
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That judgement accepted that there is price competition between beers and wines.
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As for price competition , it is about as real and intelligible as it is in the life insurance or banking fields.
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Secondly, the competition of economic theory is cast solely in terms of price competition and narrowly defined profit maximisation.
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The reason is that the on-line world is seeing the start of some serious price competition .
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As one would expect from this market structure, firms have tended to avoid price competition .
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Another kind of price competition between supermarkets is in the extent and diversity of private label offerings, so-called store brands.
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Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost.
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Some worry that certain pieces of the technology business could be hurt by a slowing economy and stiff price competition .
rule
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The offer will face scrutiny under competition rules .
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The competition rules must be regarded as a double-edged sword by businesses.
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Unhindered by the country's lax competition rules , they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses.
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Usual Daily Mirror competition rules apply.
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Usual Echo competition rules apply. 1.
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However, the Commission took a practical view of the effect of such restrictions in assessing their compatibility with the competition rules .
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At the moment the offer is being considered by the Office of Fair Trading to see whether it complies with competition rules .
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Normal News International competition rules apply.
■ VERB
enter
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To enter our competition , just answer this question.
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Theater is bound to lose if it enters that competition .
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They never entered the textbooks in competition with the ideas of the central tradition.
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Details of an easy to enter competition , open to all youngsters 14 and under, will appear in tomorrow's Echo.
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They might have entered competitions sponsored by local companies to provide innovative solutions to real-world problems.
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They formed a partnership solely to enter the competition , and did no other work together.
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To enter our super competition simply answer this question: What is the name of Marillion's lead singer?
face
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Investors say both have improved their services since they started to face serious competition .
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As the new version of Navigator goes on sale Friday, Netscape is facing the toughest competition of its young life.
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Will those relying on the home market, particularly in the public sector, be ready to face the new competition ?
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The home-improvement retailer, facing rising competition in the Northeast, has been struggling with liquidity problems and a sour retail environment.
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In Edinburgh, she will face her stiffest competition of the season.
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The planned deregulation has bred concern that Petron will face stiffer competition and an erosion of its 42 percent market share.
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Private sector firms tend to be more efficient than public sector firms, provided both operate in markets facing strong competition .
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The company was facing stiff competition and losing market share.
hold
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Once again we're holding a competition ... to find the best picture of 1993.
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It held freshmen out of competition to give them an extra year to grow and mature.
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Some karate associations hold competitions for 12 year olds.
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If will also hold competitions among its members.
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As the debate continued, it was decided to hold a competition to find a suitable and generally agreed plan.
increase
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It states that the best way to improve public services is to increase competition .
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And as the electric industry is deregulated and marches toward increased competition , inefficient utilities could get clobbered.
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The prime aim of the privatisation is to increase competition , efficiency and service to the consumer.
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Mr Maher said he had received assurances from the Government that new legislation on increasing competition would apply to the book agreement.
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This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.
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Although many analysts like its software programs, the company faces increasing competition from giants such as Microsoft Corp.
launch
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It has also launched a competition for young members to design slogans suitable for texting.
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Her parents launched the competition to train young people about the dangers of motor vehicles.
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Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain's armoury.
run
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Red Devil energy drink and Welcome Break service stations are running a competition to win the bike.
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He had the entertaining idea of running a competition , and he advertised for experts in games theory to submit strategies.
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For the next three months, the museum's running a competition to find new cartooning talent.
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Company magazine has actually run competitions for the most unusual and creative space bought in the magazine.
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Wyre Borough Council's community services department is running the competition .
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There is a habit of running down the competition rather than extolling the virtues of their own ranges.
win
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She won a beauty competition in her local newspaper in 1981 after being nominated by a neighbour.
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What makes his winning the Cliburn competition particularly fascinating is his unconventional background.
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Kristi Yamaguchi, the defending national pro champion, won in the ladies competition .
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Ten copies of the video must be won in our easy-to-enter competition .
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The people who win the competition and a certain amount of runners-up receive rosettes and at bigger competitions they receive cups.
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Ever since I won a short-story competition some years ago I've wanted to write for magazines.
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Yesterday I won the first competition , I've ever won in my life!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hot competition
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Last year put two disturbed women into hot competition.
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Often, as in household products or industrial chemicals, hot competition among affiliates of big multinationals ensures both growth and cost-competitiveness.
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Teams are in hot competition to design computers that not only assist the study of nature, but are natural themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Competition for these jobs is very tough - we had over 200 applicants.
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a photography competition
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A spelling bee is a competition in which people try to correctly spell words.
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A student from St. Paul won the speechwriting competition .
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Enter our free competition and win a weekend in Paris.
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He was awarded first prize in the National Poetry Competition .
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Hotels in the downtown area were in direct competition with each other.
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The company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner.
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The show's ratings are far behind the competition .
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There's a lot of competition between the big supermarket chains.
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There is fierce competition for places on the Olympic team.
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They're holding a competition to come up with a name for the new bridge.
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Today television networks face increasing competition from cable programming.
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Weak management and cut-throat competition put the company out of business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the year, the competition had involved over 300 teams and 1,500 competitors in the four home countries.
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For instance volunteer groups create external benefits by improving the appearance of the environment, through best-kept village competitions or reclaiming old canals.
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He asked whether competition between the old private companies and the newly privatised ones is fair.
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Several hundred Directives associated with competition have now been brought into effect.
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The competition begins at 11 a.m.
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Theater is bound to lose if it enters that competition .
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This emphasises a further point to which domestic competition authorities need to apply their minds.