"In California, people can try to use the CEQA Act to stop someone from competing, to stop something they don't want to happen," Wolff said by phone.
"It's like owning Interstate 5," Katz said to illustrate this point, "and all the billboards – and then saying you can't advertise here because you own competing rest stops".
Further east, at exit 201 for Iowa 21, there are competing truck stops on either side of the freeway.
Even in the days of the Soviet Union, we did not let competing ideologies stop the flow of goods.
"We're not competing to stop Donald Trump.... Donald is not going to be the GOP nominee.
"But the applause stops when you stop competing on the merits.
And voters know the PRI cannot easily persuade the drug lords to stop competing for market and territories — and stop killing each other, government representatives and ordinary citizens.
This is what happens when the government gives an airline a license to lie and to stop competing (I'm trying to stay out of the rabbit hole, honestly, but I may have a touch of apophasis in my rhetoric).
But, once McAnuff stops competing with the musical's ingeniousness and settles down to serve the story, all is pretty much well.
AT&T has signed up five million local phone customers, but that number is expected to shrink as it stops competing to keep them.
