500 years ago, it ran into a competitor with a lethal advantage.

Now I'm her competitor for the audience.

Then his main competitor went out and broke his record.

We now know in fact that technology is our biggest competitor for leisure time.

Numerous e commerce merchants have followed Tmall s Double 11 sales promotion, with JD.com the strongest competitor.

If you think you've got an estimate for how many digits, right we've already got one competitor here.

Facing the weakest competitor Nigeria in the group, Spain also played very hard and scraped through the game at the eleventh hour.

In today s fast paced world, it takes only a single technological improvement, price advantage, or great viral advertising campaign for a competitor to leap ahead. New players can materialize seemingly out of nowhere.

The Commission found that Prime Cure is well positioned to service the bottom segment of the market, since it already targets low income consumers and that Medicross is a potential competitor for Prime Cure in servicing those consumers.

Although the euro, created in 1999, turned out to be a more serious competitor to the dollar, its share in total international reserves has probably remained below 30 , compared to 65 for the dollar (these shares are in part estimates, as China, the world s largest holder of reserves, does not report the currency composition of its holdings).

While China may be a ravenous importer of Latin American commodities, it is also a formidable competitor. Both the public and private sector throughout the region should take immediate measures to face up to this new competition and to work toward cooperative projects with the Chinese.

If Latin America fails to deal with its new competitor, the peoples of the region will lose jobs and opportunities to develop as they should. But there are lessons to be learned and advantages to be gained from China if Latin American governments and businesses are willing to think creatively.

Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited. That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.

Second, because Arab states confront an Iran Syria alliance that includes Hamas and Hezbollah, in addition to internal conflicts, there is a regional battle between these two blocs. An aspect of this is that the largely Sunni Muslim led states face a largely Shia Muslim led competitor for regional hegemony.

Therefore, the proposed deal is likely to result in the removal of a potential competitor in the bottom segment of the managed care services market in South Africa and reduce the number of potential players in this industry to the detriment of consumers and competition in general.

The best example is Rosneft, which borrowed about 40 billion in 2013 to buy its competitor, TNK BP. About 10 billion of this debt has to be repaid in the fourth quarter of 2014, including a 7 billion payment on December 21 ( 20 billion more will have to be repaid in 2015).

Its leading candidate for the presidential nomination, John Kerry, talks about how Benedict Arnold CEO's betray America by outsourcing jobs. Kerry's remaining competitor, John Edwards, talks about how the gap on trade between him and Kerry is wide and deep with Kerry on the free trade side.

Europe can help by insisting that Russia participate in the European Energy Charter, which calls for Gazprom to grant its production competitors access to Russian pipelines, and for all disputes to be settled by international arbitration. European competition policy, which successfully brought giant companies like Microsoft into line to promote competition, could help to turn Gazprom into a normal competitor, too.

Not as great a general as Napoleon, not as great a statesman as Frederick the Great.

A man is as old as he feels and a woman as old as she looks.

Decentralization is a tool as well as a process.

His heart is as firm as a stone yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

His heart is as firm as a stone yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

This principle could be articulated as a negative as well as a positive presumption.

We have truly sent thee as a witness, as a bringer of Glad Tidings, and as a Warner

We have truly sent thee as a witness, as a bringer of Glad Tidings, and as a Warner

And so the global village is as big as a planet, and as small as a village post office.

Surely We have sent you as a witness and as a bearer of good news and as a warner,

Surely We have sent you as a witness and as a bearer of good news and as a warner,

There, he grew as a violinist and as a conductor.

She's famous as a singer but not as a poet.

Three streets, as well as a park and a hospital.

I respect him as a writer and as a man.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

I'm as hungry as a horse.

I'm as hungry as a horse.

(O Prophet), We have sent you forth as a witness, as a bearer of good news, and as a warner

(O Prophet), We have sent you forth as a witness, as a bearer of good news, and as a warner

O Prophet! Indeed We have sent you as a witness, as a bearer of good news and as a warner

O Prophet! Indeed We have sent you as a witness, as a bearer of good news and as a warner

A caged cricket eats just as much as a free cricket.

As well as with a series of provisions such as