McDonald's said its July sales slumped 2.5% as the company faces competitive pressures at home and deals with fallout from a food scare in China.
When any congregation offers free services, nearby synagogues face competitive pressure.
Traditional telephone companies are facing competitive pressure on several fronts, including from the cable companies and upstarts like Vonage.
But this week, in the wake of Vanity Fair magazine's disclosure that W. Mark Felt was his secret source -- Deep Throat -- it became clear that Mr. Woodward had been facing competitive pressure from an unlikely source, the Felt family itself.
But as union leaders argued when they tried unsuccessfully to block the China trade bill in the House, many leading United States companies are like Zebco: they face competitive pressure to save money by producing in China -- often exporting back to the United States -- rather than making goods here to sell in China.
New Zealand is a small open economy facing competitive pressure from both its geographical distance from large markets and its minimum wage, which is above key international competitors.
Both companies face competitive pressure from streaming companies like Netflix that are developing original programming as well as multi-channel networks like Maker Studios, which was bought by Disney earlier this year for a reported $500 million.
Although team-based challenges are frequently used, and individuals who identify with one team tend to lend when facing competitive pressure from rival teams, lending to the same project as the rival team, however, creates an implicit 'cooperation' with the rival team.
Still, the presentation provides a window into Google's strategic thinking at a time when the Web's dominant search engine was facing competitive pressure on numerous fronts.
Willetts told a conference today that universities would face "competitive pressures" from new providers including further education colleges.
Facing competitive pressures at home and abroad, NKK and Kawasaki have been struggling under the weight of over 1 trillion yen of interest-bearing debt and looking for ways to cut costs and capacity, analysts said.
