Over the years, the state has had to consider the competing challenges of speed and volume.
Whether both competing challenges can be met remains to be seen.
There is often a Darwinist aspect to theatrical fashion, with the art form adapting to survive against competing challenges.
Fed officials face competing challenges as they try to get monetary policy back to normal over the next several years.
The deadliest mass shooting in US history threatens to overshadow the 2016 presidential race with both leading candidates preparing to remake scheduled speeches to focus on competing challenges to national security.
Security breaches at American diplomatic compounds in the Middle East this week highlight the two competing challenges that United States diplomats confront: keeping safe in a world full of anti-American extremism and interacting with foreign populations outside the towering walls of government installations overseas.
Among the least coveted jobs in the world today, along with grave digging, is the task of burnishing President Bush's foreign legacy: the complex, competing challenges of Iraq, Afghanistan, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, China and what many in Europe and the third world see as a tarnished national brand.
He has faced numerous and competing challenges.
The competing challenges of developing selective 5-HT2C receptor ligands or creating drugs with a defined polypharmacological profile, especially aimed at G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), remain extremely difficult.
In talks with Iran set to resume in Geneva in mid-October, the White House must weigh two competing challenges: coaxing Tehran to stop uranium enrichment and other nuclear work, and winning support from a Congress that is skeptical of easing sanctions against Iran.
