competition

The fierce global competition.

What motivates employees to do their jobs well? Competition with coworkers, for some.

Some people, Werbach says, are motivated by competition.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

The danger is that although some rules need to be updated to protect consumers from harm, existing rental businesses will try to destroy competition

But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies.

His firm determination to win in the competition against his rivals.

There's this whole culture of competition that sucks people in" with online gaming, said Heidrich, now a father of two.

Competition from rival companies.

Known for low-priced general goods, Woolworths has struggled in the face of competition from supermarkets expanding beyond groceries and a new generation of internet retailers.

Next week, the exhibition will be taken over by the wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.

The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The idea is that competition between rival operators would lead to better service at airports.

The winner of this year's competition will be awarded a preview of the new fossil hall, as well as a cash prize.

Winners of local contests will participate in the national math competition for free.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.

The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.

The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

The 224 students who make it to the national competition get an all-expenses-paid trip.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.

Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.

Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.

Many schools simply don't prioritize academic competitions.

Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad —the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.

Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

With competition from many countries, Antarctica is no longer dominated by the traditional white nations.

Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today is also totally different from what baby boomers knew.

For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren

Ted Hughes discovered many long poems submitted for poetry competition were composed on computers.

Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor.

It stresses competition rather than cooperation

Competition from other modes of transport.

There is an element there about competition then, isn't there

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national Math Counts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and 8 were African-American students.

The Math video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

Competition between small and big farms is fierce.

Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones).

Create a website for a competition.

However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

It would never win a prize in a cooking competition, but it was surprisingly edible, and we drank up every last drop of soup.

It's for the competition next week.

The chief prize for the stilton cheese rolling competition is beer or port wine.

The competition has two levels, the beginners and the advanced.

The competition organizer, Lady Tottington, hires Wallace and Gromit to catch the monster alive.

The Internet has made data abundant, all-present and far more valuable, changing the nature of data and competition.

The only purpose of it is to create a website that can win you a competition.

The pages need to be well constructed in order to win you the competition.

The prize for the winner of the competition is a two-week holiday in Paris.

When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic.

When they were free from work, they invited us to local events and let us know of an interesting competition to watch, together with the story behind it.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.

Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.

Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years.

finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.

For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers—and upward pressure on wages.

If you see a conversation as a fight or competition, you can win by cheating as long as you don't get caught.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac