Sentence examples for backed competition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hébert said that he, too, backed competition but did not think the commission had the legal authority to tell states what to do in this area.

Council of Small Business chief executive Peter Strong said his members never advocated a vote for any particular party, but were considering pointing out to voters that only the Greens and the new Nick Xenophon Team backed competition policies that helped the sector.

In essence, conservative banks faced publicly backed competition.

The NCAA backed a competition to make an anti-assault video.

How do you think this new card stacks up to the Visa and MasterCard cash-back competition?

The shortcoming of this structure is that it artificially truncates the number of outside interactions and associations of a firm, thereby holding back competition and innovation.

A first novel is at No. 1. "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold has become the biggest-selling book of the year, beating back competition from Tom Clancy, Nicholas Sparks and Stephen King.

Coach Uli Stielike was fired midway through qualifying after the team lost to Qatar, and South Korea only narrowly beat back competition from Syria with ties in its last two games.

The company has been beset on a number of fronts, including struggles to improve its advertising revenue and to beat back competition from the likes of Google and, yes, Facebook.

He found that regulation was an important factor, often holding back competition so that inefficient companies survived for longer than they deserved.BusinessEurope, a lobby group, calculates that the administrative burden on business in Europe amounts to 3.5% of GDP.

Hillary Clinton drew competition into the campaign trail, chastising dominant corporations for "using their power to raise prices, limit choices for consumers, lower wages for workers and hold back competition from start-ups and small businesses".