Sentence examples for competing for good from inspiring English sources

Decades of research on the feminization of poverty show that women who have children, whether married or not, are systematically disadvantaged when competing for good jobs.

Even as the number of large law firm jobs has declined, tax L.L.M.'s have the option of competing for good jobs in accounting firms.

According to the study, at Wellesley College in the US, the phenomenon is a hangover from hunter-gatherer days, when a woman had to look after herself and deny resources to other women who might be competing for good male stock.

Set fees too high, and only the rich can afford them; set them too low, and there is too little money to compete for good teachers.

The university may not be able to compete for good players and good students who also display traces of good character.

"I appeal to people's common sense and decency and the deep reality that America's principal challenge in a competitive global economy is to prepare Americans to compete for good jobs".

Ironically, this would involve closing many of the loopholes that GE has been so adept at exploiting.Mr Immelt also wants America's education and training system to be overhauled, not least to produce far more graduates who are properly equipped to compete for good jobs and make it more responsive to the needs of business.

Unions were strong enough that non-union employers had to compete for good workers by offering comparable wages.

But when unions represented over 33percentt of all private workers in the 1940s, they drove wage increases for everyone -- non-union firms had to compete for good workers.

I contend that if, in the George W. Bush vs. John Kerry face-off, Kerry's advisers had spun him as more Abe Lincoln-like, rather than trying to compete for good-ole-boy status, Kerry would have been much better positioned.

Deficit countries are all competing for the good opinion of global savers.