Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

University education was highly competitive because of the limited places available at universities.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

We basically tried to create the most competitive environment for our lab as possible.

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

We were piloted, I could say, by a highly autocratic stateswoman, but who also had an incredible passion for environment.

The EU s most competitive economies are the most innovative and energy efficient, with the most highly educated workforces. Indeed, for Europe, cheap is not the answer quality and innovation are.

The best INGOs develop strong reputations quickly, sustain them indefinitely, and exercise real influence on policymaking. But they operate in a highly competitive environment, and will be on a fast track to losing their way if they come to be seen as no longer meeting real needs, remaining sharply focused, or being uncompromising in maintaining their independence and professionalism.

One may wonder whether today s highly competitive, funding starved scientific atmosphere, in which publications and citations have become a primary criterion for success, can accommodate such mistakes. The simple answer is yes.

The formidable challenge of developing countries is to create sustainable sources of livelihoods in an internationally competitive environment and thereby contribute to the achievement of the MDGs.

The introduction of a competitive environment for access to the factors of production increases social differentiation in the countryside and polarizes agriculture into two types competitive modern faming systems oriented solely towards the market, and family subsistence farming, which embraces most of the workers on the land.

The regulatory environment has been highly liberal and regulations have been by and large limited to codes related to the construction of retailing real estate.

We need a democratic, competitive environment, initiative at all levels, an active civil society, and real public control. Only under such conditions will difficult problems lend themselves to solution.

The process of globalization had largely affected the business environment for SMEs, and it was becoming increasingly important for firms to become internationally competitive, if they were to survive.

Large firms face an increasingly fluid economic, technological, and political environment owing to more global and competitive markets, to the greater potential of technological change to alter firms business environment, and to governments growing influence over what makes business sense. In this fluid environment, large companies must be cautious before making large, long term commitments.

National competitive examinations

The establishment by the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency of eight distribution centres for Brazilian products abroad would help to insert Brazilian industrial goods which were highly competitive in terms of price, quantity and reliability into the international market.

An analysis of the horizontal implications revealed that the transaction raised no serious competition concerns as the market for the provision of these services was highly competitive and the merged entity would not enjoy a large market share.

Pull factors were a pro business environment and attractive government incentives in host countries, adequate infrastructure, competitive labour costs, availability of natural resources, and availability of strategic assets (technology, R D activities).

Is it cost competitive?

Is Finance Too Competitive?

She is overly competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

In the past, agricultural development has prioritized large scale, capitalized forms of agriculture, neglecting smallholders who feed local communities. And governments have failed to protect agricultural workers from exploitation in an increasingly competitive environment.

It's a pre competitive issue.

I. Anti competitive practices 4

What was called for was an intensely competitive environment in which priority was given to new institutions based on scientific research and the mastery of technology, on which Tunisia spent 1 per cent of GDP.

Institutions like the University of Chile and Brazil s University of São Paulo resumed their highly competitive admissions processes. Those that did not, such as the University of Buenos Aires, saw their role in shaping their countries academic, business, and political elites diminish.

Sports today are highly competitive, with huge amounts of money at stake, but that does not mean it is impossible to be honest. In cricket, if a batsman hits the ball and one of the fielders catches it, the batsman is out.

The largest and best equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost. But they also create a number of social costs that are not accounted for in the market price of their output.

In this respect, TNCs from the South can use their familiarity with the local business environment, geographical proximity and ethnic and cultural ties to leverage their competitive edge in other developing countries (Aykut and Ratha, 2004).

UNIDO draws on the wide industrial expertise of its staff and the resources of government, the private sector and other United Nations multilateral and national institutions to create productive employment, competitive economies and a sound environment.

Spain is also engaging with highly indebted middle income countries in projects to swap debt for public investment in key areas for sustainable human development, such as education, the environment and infrastructure.

Programme Component D.1 Competitive Manufacturing

As the main component of the Central African GDP (32.2 per cent in 2002), the food crop sector, which is highly diversified, is the country's main centre of economic growth and potentially its most competitive sector, provided effective production, transformation and export measures are implemented.

While the focus so far has been on the broader enabling environment that allows healthy and competitive firms to thrive, chapter III is concerned with the underlying factors that create healthy firms and strengthen entrepreneurship in the economy.

PM That's Dimitri at his most competitive.

It's not just competitive, it's also caring.

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It takes 24 hours in a very highly developed laboratory, in highly skilled hands.

Shame is highly, highly correlated with addiction, depression, violence, aggression, bullying, suicide, eating disorders.