Sentence examples for former competition from inspiring English sources

"Industrial policy is no longer taboo," says Mario Monti, a former competition commissioner.

But many New York studio operators say that with so much of their former competition gone, their rooms have stayed in demand.

As David Balto, a former competition official at the FTC, observed wryly to Drug Topics, an industry newsletter: "This kind of thing is unique to Big Pharma.

The European commission's decision that Apple owes Ireland €13bn (£11bn) in unpaid taxes has been branded "fundamentally unfair" by its former competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes.

After five painful years, punctuated by three controversial, failed settlement attempts between Google and former competition chief Joaquín Almunia, the case shifted up a gear this April.

Ms. Kroes, the Union's former competition commissioner, is supposed to decide by June 2011 whether to recommend extending the price caps or to let them expire one year later, in 2012 — something operators have been lobbying for in Brussels.

It took a chance meeting at the 2010 Churchill Cup, with Terry Burwell, a former competitions director of the Rugby Football Union who had spotted a gap in his home market, for Play Rugby USA to take the wholly unlikely step of exporting its educational mission to the UK.

The m.c.s of the competition — two former competitive jumpers — had been hyping the crowd.

Another is Mario Monti, a respected former European Competition Commissioner.

In the past, says Mario Monti, a former EU competition chief, bosses contemplating cross-border mergers would have trembled at the frown of national governments.

In December Leon Brittain, a former EU competition commissioner, predicted that by summer 2007 EU members will probably have gone through the formal process of implementing the three energy directives.