Financial institutions are competing increasingly in the same markets, but at the same time they are co-operating to sell each other's products.The trend, the finance minister and the country's top bankers all think, is firmly towards Allfinanz: a system of financial conglomerates operating across functional boundaries.
The rise of virtualization and cloud computing has meant CIOs are now increasingly in the same position as CFOs.
In our time, the computing industry is increasingly enmeshed in the same kinds of patent wars, so maybe there's a lesson here for us.
Panmure Gordon analyst Anna Barnfather said: "Greggs' recent trading results give reason for caution, especially as we believe that the customer propositions of the two brands are converging – Costa becoming 'value', Greggs pushing breakfast and coffee and increasingly seen in the same service stations, travel hubs and high streets".
The administration is more interested in logistical questions, such as how long it will take to build enough smart bombs to make an assault on Iraq possible, than in appeasing the more tremulous sort of Europeans, whom Mr Bush increasingly puts in the same mental box as academics and other lily-livered nitpickers.In this section Will tinkering bring the building down?
As with Minecraft or Garry's Mod, Goat Simulator keeps you interested by providing opportunities to perform increasingly stuff in the same world that you only figure out how to take advantage of after toying around with each part for a while.
But, according to his critics, he grew increasingly out of touch in recent years, surrounding himself with sycophants and old military friends, and issuing increasingly authoritarian decrees, in the same manner that doomed the Egyptian monarchy.
Providing access to all information increasingly puts Google in the same defensive position as CNET, repeating the same refrain: This stuff is already out there.
The shrinking leadership of the Islamic Republic is increasingly finding itself in the same place as the masters of the Soviet Union, resting its power on a seemingly impressive edifice of terror that is likely to prove just as unreliable and unsteady.
Quebec's resurgent nationalist politicians increasingly favor independence in the same way that South Korean politicians favor unification with North Korea: it's a fine idea in theory, one to aspire to in the long term, but certainly nothing worth hurrying along.
In Latin American business circles, four countries are increasingly being mentioned in the same breath: Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
