Sentence examples for competition and countries from inspiring English sources

When Germany proposes tax breaks to promote environmentally-friendly energy, these are dismissed as distorting competition, and countries which try to internalize environmental costs are attacked, while others which externalize such costs do indeed distort competition.

John Balderston of Lockheed says the company's bid is "a profound confirmation of the relationship between the two countries".Yet the defence ministry insists that it will be a fair competition, and EU countries are keen to hold it to that promise, especially in the light of mooted Japan-EU free-trade talks.

Eliminating competition and barring countries with experience in Iraq, such as France and Russia, does not help.

The 62nd Miss World pageant, Miss World 2012, took place that July in Ordos City, China; more than 2 billion people watched the competition and 116 countries entered contestants.

Several Moroccan professional players have competed in international competition, and the country fielded its first Davis Cup team in 1999.

Opposing the merger Sprint Nextel's Vonya B. McCann, senior vice president of government affairs: "The D.O.J. today delivered a decisive victory for consumers, competition and our country.

Actors' salaries remain depressed, and indies have become expert at exploiting competition between states and countries, which lavish subsidies on them.

That's a challenge but also an opportunity: we are also seeing a lot of strong competition between companies and countries to take a leading role in the process in developing markets.

Such ideas are anathema to low-tax euro zone countries like Ireland and Slovakia, which thrive on tax competition, and to those countries that insist that taxation is a national prerogative, like Britain and the Netherlands.

He still thinks France can avoid tax-rate competition and convince other countries to raise their taxes to the French level.

Globalization is not an unfamiliar word to people, which is coined to describe the "heightened form of time/space compression" and the "inevitable" competition among the territories and countries in the world (Maguire 2002).