When Liesel falls pregnant, for example, it's obvious that the house and the baby will become competing symbols of growth and development.
When we try to develop too many new skills at once, they become competing priorities that leave us distracted, discouraged and overwhelmed.
Projects funded by the European Commission or jointly funded by national agencies are often encouraged to become large, competing companies may become partners, objectives are unclear, and overall vagueness usually increases with consortium size.
They became commodities, competing with more novel products (like chili, tobacco, coffee and sugar), and they lost their aura of glamour and the exotic.
The candidates become officeholders, and the consultants become lobbyists, competing with the same lobbyists who were among the campaign donors in the first place.
But it's also Mrs. Tetherow who first spies an Indian (Rod Rondeaux) who becomes another competing voice of authority as they drift along in increasing distress and disagreement.
But if the euro, the single currency adopted by 12 European nations, gains credibility, it could well become a competing reserve currency.
This reveals that reliability and delay may become two competing constraints in a QoS routing model where both constraints are at stake increasing the probability of meeting the reliability constraints worsens the average delay.
In our study the events of interest were the occurrence of THA and death, as death becomes a competing risk affecting the possibility of becoming a case.
It's the combination of things you can do on Foursquare get points and badges for checking in to certain locations, become mayor, compete with strangers that makes it appealing, not just the store and restaurant discounts.
