Sentence examples for Sharpen competition from inspiring English sources

Privatising the banks will do little by itself to sharpen competition—a privately owned oligopoly is still an oligopoly.

By comparison with this, his second-term surprise, consisting of some useful measures to sharpen competition and so push up productivity, was a whimper.

The O2 deal would then set the stage for even more consolidation.If the Telefónica-O2 deal goes through, it will sharpen competition in the mobile market.

This is intended to sharpen competition for students between universities and colleges and to introduce more dynamism and also more risk.

Facebook buys small companies on a regular basis — almost two dozen over the last two years — to beef up its team of engineers, add to the site's offerings and sharpen competition with rivals.

There are ambitious if vague plans to sharpen competition in health care and shift some of the costs from employers to the insured.Yet the sustainability agenda may not advance much more smoothly than the recovery one.

Open borders increased farmers' takings but sharpened competition from abroad for domestic industry.

The newcomers have sharpened competition for fans and shrunk the older teams' geographic markets.

The intensification of disagreements over moral values not only makes compromise difficult to achieve, but sharpens competition for scarce goods at a time when austerity dominates the agenda.

Tim Davie, head of audio and music at the BBC, points out that Radioplayer sharpens competition not only over programming but also over search data and algorithms.

In that context, the prospect of the vast proceeds of globally scarce natural resources greatly sharpens competition for control over them.