Sentence examples for act as competitors from inspiring English sources
The system follows an economic approach where storm water tanks act as competitors on a virtual water market.
It would reflect a past that we have long forgotten and whose meaning has been obscured and badly frayed as we abandoned our hunting cultures to become herders and agriculturists, to whom ravens act as competitors.
These peptides can act as competitors for specific transport pathways, but a high dosage is required for effective inhibition.
Normal viral functions can be suppressed by expression of transdominant mutant proteins that act as competitors of cognate HIV-1 proteins.
Even though the local production of chemokines attracts more HIV target cells, chemokines may act as competitors for binding CCR5 and CXCR4 receptors [ 145, 146].
In the Pacific, S. droebachiensis is embedded in a complex community that includes 2 4 congeners, some of which may act as competitors for resources.
This may be due to antagonism between metal ions and presence of other chelating agents (amino acids and protein) from feeding diets which can act as competitor for complexation of metals and influence accumulation of metals in chicken meat.
Interestingly, the DNA fragments responsible for these effects did not code directly for OPN protein, or even for any protein, rather they acted as competitors for binding of the transcription factor TCF-4, which suppresses OPN expression.
The European Commission is expected to give its decision Sept. 3, but because of the composition of the companies' fleets, there has already been a natural split in the market that allows the two carriers to act less as competitors.
Apparently, shopkeepers allow these street vendors to act as intermediaries as long as they don't physically enter the shop of a competitor.
