Sentence examples for compete adequately from inspiring English sources

You do not win a World Cup, or even compete adequately in one, with inexperienced players.

And even if SBC was able to do a full integration of DirecTV, it is not clear whether the acquisition would allow it to compete adequately with cable rivals.

The site later became Rakuten.co.uk, but it wasn't able to compete adequately enough for Rakuten to justify putting more resources into the business.

Fighting for news media and voter attention against better-known opponents, he said he had quickly learned that he could not adequately compete without spending more money to get his name and message before city voters.

The initiative is part of Republicans' efforts to more adequately compete online in the 2012 election contest.

eFresh.com has acquired 15 smaller companies and portals over the past years, and hopes to expand those operations to adequately compete against large trading portals like Alibaba and Global Sources (both strong in Asia).

In the successful application of geotextiles, natural fibre-based geotextiles have little contribution: thus there is the need for improvement of their properties for them to adequately compete with synthetic geotextiles.

What Google's social gaming platform will eventually look like – and how it will be positioned and if it will be able to adequately compete with Facebook and other online gaming platforms – is anyone's guess for the moment, though I have the feeling it won't take that much longer for Google to start talking more about its imminent foray into the gaming industry.

The acquisition suggests that Google sees itself as unable to adequately compete in the mobility market without its own handset manufacturer.

Troubled that the Wall Street bailout and stimulus hasn't shortened unemployment lines, Tim Geithner actually trotted out this old theory: Unemployment is high because workers don't have "the skills to adequately compete in the 21st century".

Due to their lack of mobility, plants must rely on both physical and chemical defense mechanisms such as producing various toxic metabolites to survive the predatory attacks of other organisms such as insects, bacteria, and fungi, and to adequately compete with other plant species for light and nutritional resources.