The franc's strength has made Swiss exports less competitive and weakened the country's growth outlook; GDP growth fell below 2% per year during 2011-13.
As far as the competitive landscape: Competition is weakening.
We hypothesised that phage would promote more equitable coexistence of bacterial competitors by weakening competitive interactions through reductions in density of the competitively dominant species.
And U.S. carriers as a group do face significant challenges ahead like rising labor costs, fuel price volatility, weakening competitive positions in certain international markets as foreign carriers beef up service, and some degree of risk related to softening economies overseas or even at home.
First, it makes Japanese exporters more competitive and thus weakens the position of rival exporting nations.
Ecological imprint in competitive systems can weaken the spatial competitive intensity by spatial heterogeneity and segregation of species' distributions.
"This could weaken competitive forces, drive up costs and (in procurement) reduce value for money for the E.U. taxpayer," it said.
Furthermore, the relationship between manufacturing flexibility and an efficiency-centred business model design is strengthened by competitive intensity but weakened by demand heterogeneity.
The latter may know that a limited supply of faith-school places means many parents will have to settle for a secular alternative whether they want to or not.Or it could be that, by giving religious people more choice than other parents, the government has weakened competitive pressures in another way.
The NYSE's weakened competitive position left the Big Board no other choice but to find in Wall Street parlance "a strategic partner," which in plain English means it needed to sell itself.
In his letter, Mr. Geithner also said the G-20 countries should refrain from "exchange-rate policies designed to achieve competitive advantage by either weakening their currency or preventing appreciation of an undervalued currency".
