Sentence examples for competitive purpose from inspiring English sources

Large cash balances (and independence from the capital markets) can serve a competitive purpose, but they often lead to waste and inefficiency.

Billie Scott, a Simon spokeswoman in Indianapolis, said, "The suggestion that we are manipulating the situation for a competitive purpose is an attempt to divert attention away from the real issue, namely traffic".

When that happens, it's almost certain that data, processes, customer interfaces, and operating models will become inconsistent thus defeating the whole competitive purpose of purchasing the package in the first place.

He was one with the skateboard". But as natural as the moves looked, they had a competitive purpose.

We will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes.

But he said the change was being done "strictly for competitive purposes".

Bell says journalism sits in a position of wanting things to be open, but then wanting secrecy for competitive purposes.

(While other countries -- Australia and South Africa, for example -- have university-financed dictionary centers that can feed research into the O.E.D., American lexicography has traditionally been dominated by commercial publishers, who need to keep their files private for competitive purposes).

"Thousands of hospitals and private treatment facilities all over the country have purchased I.M.R.T. machinery, often for competitive purposes and, far too often, without properly trained staff in place," Dr. Klein said.

It stated that their policy was not "to target our exchange rates for competitive purposes" and that "excess volatility of financial flows and disorderly movements in exchange rates have adverse implications for economic and financial stability".

They acknowledged Japan's recent decision to sharply increase the supply of money to end deflation, but did not criticize the move for driving down the value of the yen, saying only that the G-20 would "refrain from competitive devaluation and will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes".