1. His dream of competing in the Olympics remained unfulfilled .

2. The players in the golf tournament are competing for a purse of £525 000.

3. It remains true that sport is about competing well, not winning.

4. They found themselves competing with foreign companies for a share of the market.

5. Several companies are competing for the contract/to gain the contract.

6. She was disqualified from competing for a year after failing a dope test.

7. Injury shattered his dreams of competing in the Olympics.

8. How many runners will be competing in the marathon?

9. Western suppliers too are competing avidly for business abroad.

10. Banks and building societies are competing fiercely for business.

11. He will be competing in the London-Calais-London race.

12. Several people gave competing accounts of the accident.

13. Several advertising agencies are competing to get the contract.

14. She and her sister are always competing for attention.

15. The ingredients are identical with those of competing products.

16. We're competing with foreign businesses.

17. Several companies are competing for the contract.

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18. The big firms are competing fiercely on price.

19. Several publishers are competing in the same market.

20. The two athletes are competing for the gold medal.

21. Are you competing in the 100 metres?

22. The stores will inevitably end up competing with each other in their push for increased market shares.

23. They talked about the competing theories of the origin of life.

24. For some people,() competing is the be-all and end-all of their running.

25. Five other cities had been competing for the honour of staging the Games.

26. The Olympic Games begin with a parade of all the competing nations.

27. The shake-up aims to recast IBM as a federation of flexible and competing sub-sidiaries.

28. The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.

29. Resources are finite, and choices have to be made between competing priorities and needs.

30. It will be difficult to steer a middle course between the competing claims of the two sides in the conflict.

1. His dream of competing in the Olympics remained unfulfilled .

2. The players in the golf tournament are competing for a purse of £525 000.

3. The Olympic Games begin with a parade of all the competing nations.

4. It remains true that sport is about competing well, not winning.

5. They found themselves competing with foreign companies for a share of the market.

6. The shake-up aims to recast IBM as a federation of flexible and competing sub-sidiaries.

7. Resources are finite, and choices have to be made between competing priorities and needs.

8. She was disqualified from competing for a year after failing a dope test.

9. John was competing against James for the prize in arithmetic.

10. The Olympic Games began with a parade of all the competing nations.

11. Any amateur would be skinned alive competing against the world champion.

31. Edwards will be competing against his closest rival Olsson in the triple jump.

32. We'll be competing against some of the best companies in Europe.

33. The market for which they are competing is still unformed.

34. John was competing against James for the prize in arithmetic.

35. The Olympic Games began with a parade of all the competing nations.

36. Any amateur would be skinned alive competing against the world champion.

37. Members of the Colombian team were competing stateside at the time.

38. The stars of the future are competing in the world junior athletics championships this month.

39. More than 2300 candidates from 93 political parties are competing for 486 seats.

40. Their very environment militated against competing on an equal footing.

41. The firm had to face some sharp practice from competing companies.

42. Within each niche, similar animals avoid competing with each other.

43. Until women are paid as much as men, they will be competing on unequal terms.

44. Athletes must undergo a mandatory drugs test before competing in the championship.

45. We have limited funds and several competing claims, so it is hard to choose between them.

46. The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money.

47. How many runners are competing in the Boston Marathon?

48. Sarah and Hannah are always competing for attention.

49. Two other large pharmaceutical companies also have competing drugs.

50. They are competing in popularity with car phones.

51. A handy ditty when competing with other firms.

52. His fortunes slip as competing styles gain popularity.

53. Before long,(http:///competing.html) the junior highs were competing for students.

54. I started competing internationally when I was 14.

55. Schools are businesses, competing for pupils and cash.

56. The senior staff have many competing responsibilities.

57. Blair is competing for the starting quarterback position.

58. Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.

59. The big firms are competing fiercely for mandates.

60. Every managerial decision required trade-offs among competing interests.

61. Why Oxford's speedway team won't be competing next year.

62. But how are competing interests to be assessed?

63. This year, there are 14 countries competing.

64. Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.

65. The parents moved in couples, greeting one another with false enthusiasm and competing for the attention of the staff.

66. Channel 4 eased the pressure for space, but also led to more programmes competing for it.

67. Suppose that the number of firms competing to produce a good in one country is smaller than the number in another.

68. Are the competing views purely academic debates, or do they also reflect wider social interests? 4.

69. She needs to develop strategies to cope with apparently limitless and competing responsibilities.

70. In the ambiguous world of international politics, clear-cut choices between competing interests and values are rare.

71. NORTH-EAST swimmers are competing in three important events this weekend.

72. The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries.

73. This analysis will use recently developed techniques for measuring the competitiveness of a product amongst a group of similar competing products.

74. This week,[] the union's executive board huddled to discuss how to keep workers from competing against each other.

75. Problems were now far more likely to arise in determining the rights of succession among competing members of a princely family.

76. In the face of competing claims on scarce resources, the allocation process can also become highly political.

77. For Franco,(http:///competing.html) the most problematical feature within the Nationalist zone was the continued existence of independent and competing political movements.

78. Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.

79. Fat and happy, banks saw no point in competing for customers with lower fees or interest rates.

80. They were for ever breaking up each other's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.

81. They are, however, going to be competing against independent firms with a lot of experience doing such work as vendors.

82. Factory owners pursue their own interests, competing with one another.

83. The day began with the men's semi final, 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final.

84. He has examined a number of competing fusion schemes, and found helium-3 / deuterium fusion to be the most attractive.

85. We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services.

86. The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation.

87. For a while, competing on price was doing very well.

88. Have they been competing with one another all their lives?

89. They also proposed that dealers may hold competing dealerships in an area and provide other services outside their territories.

90. Virtually all of them see their academic institutions as complex social worlds with competing pressures and multiple tasks and goals.

91. Consequently, these ionomers set by several competing reactions to give complex structures.

92. Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time, having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969.

93. However, before competing again you must present yourself to the tournament doctor to have both the injury and your bandaging accepted.

94. Earlier this year, he achieved his ambition of competing in the Olympic games.

95. Especially the one who hurt her ankle and kept on competing.

96. Jessica and James Kernan are hoping to keep up with international successes and will be competing in tomorrow's Grand Prix.

97. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.

98. We send in negative data on our peers - those who are competing with us for more powerful positions.

99. An alternative approach is to recognise the possibility of a more broadly-based balancing of the competing interests involved.

100. Within each teacher's subject area there are competing approaches that conflict in educational philosophy as well as in teaching style.

101. I wanted to prove myself by competing with the big boys.

102. Gaining approval, competing for scarce resources, and obtaining cooperation require managers to develop bases of power beyond positional authority.

103. You are dressed in formal evening clothes, and it is obvious you are competing in a ballroom dance contest.

104. Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of ￡6450.

105. A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making.

106. Part of that has to do with the wider spectrum of entertainment competing for our attention.

107. Instead, agencies find they must tread a tricky path between the competing claims of state regulation and free enterprise.

107. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

108. What we have encountered is a much more unstable hegemony, which was successfully challenged by competing groups.

109. Medium-sized local radio stations in cities could find themselves competing for revenue with the newcomer, it added.

110. And there are competing approaches to minimally invasive heart repair.

111. Evolving software mimics biological evolution with collections of programs competing with each other to see which performs the task best.

112. We will also assume that perfect segmentation has taken place; there are no competing alignments of overlapping phonemes in the graph.

113. Sometimes a young otter trails the white-faced adult, and is harried by a hungry gull competing for scraps of abalone.

114. The worm would establish itself in the gut, competing for food with its host, who soon lost weight.

115. She screams Read in studio Dozens of street musicians have been competing for the title of Britain's best busker.

116. The fire crackled in the grate, its light competing with that of the little gas lamp.

117. With so many companies competing for your attention it can be difficult deciding which is the one for you.

118. This was based on demographic data and information about competing hotel chains.

119. Similarly radicals overstate the degree of unanimity among the medical profession, which is in fact riven with dissension and competing ideologies.

120. Wars, hot and cold, were not the product of competing alliances but of conflicting ideologies.

121. Backley was bitterly disappointed when an injury prevented him from competing in the Olympic Games.

122. The institute found that only 18 percent of card holders defect to competing grocers, compared with 21 percent for card-less shoppers.

123. Computing is still a world made up of many technical directions, product implementations, and competing vendors.

124. The toughest competition is competing with yourself - to try to be better than what you have performed or achieved. Dr T.P.Chia 

125. There is a high cost in time and money for audit firms in competing in a change in auditors.

126. Academic freedom is not absolute, and courts balance it against competing educational values.

127. But because lenders are competing for business, many are offering to cover some of the charges.

128. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that he has a mental and emotional block about competing with his compatriots.

129. She has been competing for three weeks under a temporary restraining order issued April 15 by a federal district judge in Phoenix.

130. The effect of a double-Harrison transformation can be deduced by any number of competing techniques.

131. Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC are competing with US firms to build the world's fastest supercomputer.

132. This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries.

133. The localities described by Cooke and colleagues are essentially local market-places competing with others in the international network.

134. Competing with the national team or going overseas are the only options at this point.

135. Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.

136. But too many are from unqualified applicants competing for fewer job openings.

137. Nevertheless, by age 5, she was competing in regional music festivals.

138. The results will provide deeper insight into the impact of external constraints and competing functional goals upon the firm's marketing effectiveness.

139. Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent's duty to act for competing principals.

140. More than 30 players, including juniors and novices will be competing.

141. Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles, values, and corporate cultures with them.

142. He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry.

143. The most dissension may come from competing rivals for higher office.

144. These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations.

145. Others again have taken as the play's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths.

146. The three competing shipbuilding teams have opted for angular, low profiles without the jutting antennas and masts familiar to most vessels.

147. During 1995, the Amex lost 28 companies to competing exchanges and delisted another 38 companies for financial and other problems.

148. In all these respects, materialism functions just like theism, as one competing metaphysical scheme amongst others.

149. Several disputes have broken out between businesses competing for the best locations.

150. As there are too few places, comparison between competing claims is necessary.

151. Decision makers need to assess the relative value for money of competing health care interventions.

152. The relevant competing rights here are those of the potential victims of crime in the future.

153. Different objectives and competing priorities of the sponsors have to be balanced, especially in the case of joint ventures.

154. When he's not on the track competing, you will find Paul out pounding the pavements.

155. Business became concentrated and competing centres find it hard to become established.

156. For others, it may be more difficult to balance the often competing demands of work and home.

157. Competing vehicles have to cover a ten-mile course carrying a driver at a speed of at least 15 miles per hour.

158. Some 80 local table tennis players will be competing for 13 main titles.

159. The members of society thus perceive themselves as private individuals, each pursuing their own private and competing interests.

160. Horses competing in long distance events should not use a brand which contains bicarbonate.

161. You create an atmosphere of stress, creative stress, everyone competing to solve one problem.

162. However, competing electrode surface reactions and surface film formation can disrupt the surface reaction and reproducible electrochemical transduction may be compromised.

163. Competing against time and against one an-other, they tweaked and massaged the raw seismic data with complex computer models.

164. He fits in his taxing training and competing schedule with a demanding job as captain of the Life Guards.

165. The use of different divisions gave many more climbers the chance to experience the thrill of competing at their own level.

166. There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing, but incompatible, systems.

167. Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days.

168. Health authorities will now start buying health care from a range of competing providers.

169. It was unwillingly propelled into action by the competing forces within civil society.

170. Instead of the central board of directors foisting decisions on unwilling parties,() policy formation reflects endless bargaining between diverse competing interests.

171. It allows us to record the principal ideas, key concepts, competing explanatory theories and illustrations used. 5.

172. Very generally, there are always two fracture mechanisms competing to break a material - plastic flow and brittle cracking.

173. Also, there is a need on the part of decision makers to assess the relative value for money from competing health care interventions.

174. Last week's meeting in Paris presented the results of a two-year study of the competing projects.

175. By leading a solitary existence, he avoids competing with the females that he has fertilised.

176. Compromises and deals have to be hatched and officers become the main repository of the views and demands of competing factions.

177. Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child.

178. A salesman at a competing wholesale electronics firm in San Jose told the same story.

179. Most athletes these days are highly-trained professionals, who spend their whole time practising or competing.

180. The independent republics do not, for the most part, have firmly established systems of parties competing for office.

181. Prices have dropped to a reasonable level, and we have buyers competing for them, with gazumping going on.

182. All interpretation requires the reconciliation of the competing claims of assimilation and accommodation.

183. Whenever I tried to balance these competing goods in my mind, I thought of students like Tammy and Sabour.

184. Legislators dependent on campaign contributions became the pawns of competing special-interest lobbies, who held each other in check.

185. Dustbin derby: Schools throughout Langbaurgh are competing for Telethon's dustbin derby by collecting plastic bags for recycling.

186. The cities are competing against each other to attract and retain business.

187. The legitimate pursuit of competing interests can balance and preserve social and organisational arrangements.

188. The result: Less-connected candidates have a real chance of competing with their well-funded opponents.

189. Only she, of all the women, seemed not to be competing for his attention.

190. The biggest entry is for the handicap singles with 74 players competing.

191. The firm began making Social Security numbers available through its P-Trak service last year, something competing firms have done for years.

192. London will again fill one of the places with Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham competing for the other spot.

193. The general purpose of these provisions is to allow the court so far as possible to settle competing claims in one set of proceedings.

194. As a civil engineer, Susan will be competing in a predominantly male profession.

195. Part of the justification for censorship in the first place stemmed from competing conceptions of the priesthood.

196. In short, the baddest of the bad were competing for jobs.

197. In this area, market forces are likely to decide between the various competing standards before official bodies make up their minds./competing.html

198. The Primestar satellite effort has put the cable industry in the odd position of competing against itself.

199. A number of Ulster riders will be competing in today's opening round of the Supercup series at Oulton Park.

200. Desum breads were competing against yeast breads and both were quite excellent.

201. It would probably divide its loyalties between the competing political authorities, leading in the worst case to civil war.

202. It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance.

203. It must also offer access to competing third-party freight operators' on fair commercial terms'.

204. Ray designed a system called Tierra that consisted of competing programs that were constantly being filled by mutation with small errors.

205. They are among the national squad scullers competing who are seeking a place in the Olympic team.

206. Gas is also competing directly with coal for the heavy fuel oil market.

207. The two also are competing in the lucrative market for business software.

208. No longer mere house organs for competing political factions, newspapers became influential and independent institutions in their own right.

209. Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time.

210. Invariably, the own-brand range is offered at lower prices than the competing brands.

211. A class of K-sample tests for comparing the cumulative incidence of a competing risk.

212. How good that future is will depend in part on the performance of the dockyard, which is competing right now.

213. Clearly, in the months ahead, investors will face a blitz of illustrations from competing investments.

214. This was a team event, with 7 countries competing for a trophy named after Joan Scruton.

215. It won the gold award for employee communications at New York, competing against 1,600 entries.

216. The boys' behaviour is their way of protesting at these changes and competing for your affection and attention.

217. His thoughts had run the gamut during lunch, competing in an emotional decathlon.

218. If training and competing were exacting, they were not nearly so exacting as plantation work.

219. These competing claims usually emerged as community-centred, subject-centred and child-centred curricula, but the report argued that these could be reconciled.

220. Lotus had charged Borland with pirating its commands for use in a competing program.

221. This may require the exchange to carry out a balancing act between competing interests.

222. It is a process whereby scarce resources are allocated among competing powers and claimants.

223. However, it is vital that the competing behaviour be specified with the same objectivity as the problem behaviour.

224. The Cobe evidence will flesh out the skeleton of existing knowledge and allow astronomers to begin to chose between competing cosmological theories.

225. Very soon Margarett had young men in uniform sitting for portraits and amorous officers competing for her attention.

226. If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously.

227. Some 16 town criers from all over the country, including the world's loudest(Sentencedict), will be competing for the trophy.

228. Steering requires people who see the entire universe of issues and possibilities and can balance competing demands for resources.

229. Ravara Pipe Band was the only Ulster band competing in Grade 2 and they ended up with a commendable third place.

230. The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy.

231. The championships are being held through next Sunday at the San Jose Arena with more than 300 skaters competing in 19 events.

232. Employing organisations within this sector are a mixture of local and international companies competing within a relatively static market.

233. However, 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood.

234. They do not adjust their shopping list to take advantage of price fluctuations among competing products.

235. No wonder, then, that so many candidates are competing to fill the vacancy in DeKalb.

236. You are surrounded by competing claims regarding the political world.

237. If some one wants to go from A to B, who else is competing to take that person there?

238. What I was about to learn, however, is that the poem was equally handy when competing within Salomon Brothers.

239. But the blocked spending bills are pawns in a larger debate over the parties' competing seven-year balanced-budget plans.

240. Fewer attempts are made to integrate or reconcile competing perspectives at an editorial level.

241. Suddenly there are a lot more people competing for a lot less fuel.

242. The Phoenix Department of Public Works does this by competing in garbage collection.

243. Such products are often of excellent educational design, but they do not provide comparisons between competing systems or databases.

244. This can be very damaging for export industries and industries competing with imports.

245. Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent.

246. The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.

247. I thought it would be fascinating to watch two such competing impulses in the same woman and in women of different classes.

248. When communications were inadequate and weak, it was argued, the country could ill afford the luxury of competing media.

249. Holiday spots have seen a dramatic revival and tourist chiefs are competing for a slice of the action.

250. The reshuffle left China Mobile competing with China Telecom and China Unicom.

251. An international summit convened in Moscow to discuss competing territorial claims to the Arctic Ocean.

252. Country-wide, a total of 22 political parties are competing for the voters' allegiance.

253. This aids in the avoidance of interference from other potentially competing metals.

253. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

254. Thus closing time was the scene of a competing house.

255. Today many pharmaceutical companies are competing to develop capsaicin receptor antagonists.

256. Carbo loading is used by endurance athletes just before competing.

257. Luckily, a good test of the competing hypotheses is available.

258. Removing an existing tariff would clearly displace workers in import - competing industries.