During the late 1950s, IKEA's unhappy competitors pressured Swedish manufacturers to cut off supplies to the company.
Some competitors pressured him to raise his prices; others passed off cheaper Chinese truffles as more pungent, higherquality black winter truffles.
Some day Shenhua may find itself scrambling to remain atop China's coal pile as foreign competitors pressure it and domestic rivals launch their own IPOs and coal-to-oil plants.
Neither Lilly nor Icos would specify the nature of the Food and Drug Administration's demands, citing competitor pressure.
Perhaps to make up for market share it might be losing, Satyam started to underbid its competitors, putting pressure on its own profit margins.
Federal prosecutors contend that Blue Cross in Michigan thwarts competitors by pressuring hospitals to charge rival insurers more to provide care, a practice prosecutors say has made health care extremely expensive in a state that can't afford it.
But his competitors put pressure on Swedish suppliers, forcing him to look elsewhere and in 1961 he placed his first order for chairs with a company in the Polish city of Radom.
Threatened by all-electronic competitors and pressured by the daily headaches linked to its imminent split from its parent, the American Stock Exchange has perhaps experienced more turbulence over the past four years than any other financial market.
Brinker said it was likely that some competitors would pressure regulators to take a hard look at the merger and anti-trust regulations.
The verse started with Google proposing a settlement, then the European Commission market tested it, Google's competitors put pressure on the European Commission to reject it, and the verse repeats.
My colleague Brian Stelter reported today in The Times that firms such as Time Warner Cable, which don't want to lose customers to a new competitor, are pressuring media companies to not give their content to Intel.
