Sentence examples for compete for supply from inspiring English sources

By contrast spot prices for Flash memory are rising rapidly as tablet and smartphone makers compete for supply.

Alternative sources of gas, such as liquefied natural gas from the Middle East and North Africa, would not only be prohibitively expensive but would also force the EU to compete for supply against more lucrative gas markets, such as the U.S. In fact, we estimate it would cost the EU $40 billion to $60 billion (net present value) more to meet its energy needs from sources other than Russia.

Brick prices have soared as small-scale companies and builders merchants are struggling to compete for supplies with the big national building companies.

But markets for commodities are global, and the risk of any one consumer cornering supplies, or securing them at a lower price, is negligible.Own goalThe worst fallout from China's quest for natural resources will be seen not in the countries they come from, nor in the countries that are competing for supplies, but in China itself.

The antagonism was furthered by the fact that the two expeditions were competing for supplies from the same sources, and was also exacerbated by ongoing border disputes between the provinces.

Hoarding and phantom ordering can be rational when customers compete for limited supply in the presence of uncertainty or capacity constraints.

Because the point of grid parity has not yet been reached in many parts of the world, solar generating stations need some form of financial incentive to compete for the supply of electricity.

"We all compete for a smaller supply of students than we would like".

But the demand for war materiel and the military draft created a labor shortage, and businesses looked for ways to compete for the limited supply of workers without being able to raise wages.

Throughout development, the cells act upon and influence each other's behaviour; pushing and pulling, they jostle for space and compete for the limited supply of the resources that they need to grow.

A number of recruiters around the country complained that the legislation has made their job much harder by forcing them to compete for the limited supply of certified teachers.