Sentence examples similar to budget competition from inspiring English sources

While 12-plus million viewers for its Wednesday opener are nothing to sneeze at, being beaten by a double dose of a three-year-old sitcom and a seven-year-old procedural crime drama during the second half of a two-hour series premiere of what was supposed to be the mother of all big-budget competition series has got to hurt.

Buying or starting an in-house low-cost carrier was one of the earlier strategies employed by flag carriers trying to fend off budget airline competition.

Issues included that the BBC refused to open up enough of its programme budget to competition, including contracts to the biggest hits such as Strictly and EastEnders.

The key elements for Paris are: the 2012 stimulus agreement, the "concessions" from Berlin on the EU's budget, and competition and jobs accord of 30 May this year.

With NIH, NSF, and other civilian agencies already losing ground to inflation and on notice that the coming years will bring significant budget cuts, competition for grant money is likely to increase, perhaps sharply.

Their latest attempt at pleasing customers and gaining a leg up on the budget airline competition, has landed them some long lines and cranky passengers.

As military budgets shrink, competition among manufacturers for new contracts will continue to grow more intense and in some cases more acrimonious, analysts say.

Its bureaucrats have complained that tight budgets and competition with 11 other federal regulatory agencies have made it harder to police the food supply.

Now Finchem finds himself facing a protracted economic downturn, shrinking marketing budgets, increasing competition from the European Tour — which, unlike the PGA Tour, pays top players appearance fees to participate in its events — and the equivalent of a massive product recall.

While the rest of Europe's airlines are thriving and even fighting back against budget-carrier competition, Alitalia (like Olympic in Greece) is stuck in a 1970s time-warp of losses, strikes and cancellations.Yet this month's strike, if it goes ahead, will take place in a different corporate climate.

With up to 80% of internet users in Britain expected to do at least part of their Christmas shopping online this year, and with many keeping a particularly tight hold of their budgets, the competition among the fashion e-tailers will never have been so fierce.