The phrase 'embrace competition' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to express the idea of welcoming a challenge or opportunity to compete. For example: "We should always embrace competition - it's a great way to learn and grow."
Its goal is not to embrace competition but to tame it, making the owners' businesses less risky and more profitable.
Instead, the big divide is over globalisation, and whether to resist or embrace competition between different countries.
Japan's behaviour in the Doha round of WTO farm-trade negotiations suggests it is hardly about to embrace competition.
Mr. Zoellick says the bank's newfound openness is part of a push to embrace competition, both internally and externally, as it tries to reduce poverty and foster economic development.
Some economists and politicians feel that competition policies need to be more closely co-ordinated internationally; some, indeed, argue that since trade and competition policies have become so intertwined, the WTO should embrace competition policy as well.Competition policies can spill over into trade in several ways.
They are making headway, but too slowly, blocked by the teachers' unions (when did state-protected producers ever embrace competition?) and sometimes in court".Judged by practice," wrote Mr Friedman and his wife, Rose, in their memoirs, published eight years ago, "we have been, despite some successes, mostly on the losing side.
So far the most enthusiastically embraced competition entry has been Mike Leigh's "Another Year".
Recent Energy Department data shows that the cost of power in states that embraced competition has risen faster than in states that had retained traditional rate regulation.
Stephen Baum, the boss of Sempra (which owns San Diego Gas & Electric, a utility that is in better financial shape than PG&E and SCE), says that "California embraced competition as a religion and the English model as our guide".
Stephen Baum, the boss of Sempra, which owns SDG&E, says that "California embraced competition as a religion and the English model as our guide .Not quite Maggie's wayThe problem is that reformers rushed ahead without reflecting on the differences between California and Britain in such crucial matters as reserve capacity.
Countries which have embraced competition in their healthcare systems have seen treatment improve and costs go down, according to a study of how new healthcare operators in the United States, India, Germany and elsewhere have managed to provide better quality care while also integrating services for patients.
