Sentence examples for compete for a slice from inspiring English sources

They talked about the need to reform procurement policies so that startups can compete for a slice of the $172 billion a year government technology market, how using product design methodologies can help make services work better for citizens and the need for government to become a platform that can embrace and benefit from civic hackers and innovators.

So investors are still likely to compete for a slice of funds run by the likes of Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital, two industry leaders.Does all this mean that Mr Andreessen's timing is off?

Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade has argued that the broadcaster should be able to compete for a slice of the licence fee because advertising would no longer cut the mustard (a suggestion politely refuted by C4).

One argument you tend to hear in the immigration debate in the U.S. is that there is a fixed number of jobs in the economy — and immigrants just compete for a slice of the pie rather than helping the pie grow.

Rivals like AT&T and WorldCom have repeatedly complained that the interconnection fees make competing for a slice of Mexico's $12 billion telecommunications market a losing battle.

Cowling confirmed that the company would be competing for a slice of the £557m pot of government subsidies for offshore windfarms that will be auctioned next year.

They pointed to a growing number of partnerships between Western Union and banks that might have competed for a slice of the business.

Companies are competing for a slice of the £73bn decommissioning market in the UK, with the clean-up of the sprawling Sellafield site representing at least half this sum.

It's likely the study will be greeted with some scepticism though, since it is co-authored and partly funded by Nestlé - one of the main companies competing for a slice of the market for probiotic products - worth more than £300m a year in the UK alone.

"With a company in bad times, if you have enough cash to weather it out, and your competition doesn't, at the end of the day there are fewer people competing for a slice of the pie," said Clay Ryder, chief analyst at Zona Research in Redwood City, Calif.

Royal Phnom Penh is one of five domestic carriers competing for a slice of the country's growing tourist trade, a business relying almost exclusively on the draw of centuries-old temples clustered around the northwestern town of Siem Reap, a regional center about 80 miles from the Thai border.