Sentence examples for influential competitor from inspiring English sources

The collapse of the Assad government would be a strategic blow to Shiite-majority Iran, cutting off its most important bridge to the Arab world while empowering its main regional rivals, Saudi Arabia and its increasingly influential competitor, Turkey, both Sunni-majority nations.

After complicated negotiations, the buyers, CVS and the Jean Coutu Group, said they would divide Eckerd's 2,800 stores, as well as related businesses, creating two larger chains within the drugstore business, where Wal-Mart Stores has become an increasingly influential competitor.

If you aren't engaging with your brand ad- vocates or influential haters, your competitors will be.

Although details of the new car are sparse, it seems that this is Mitsubishi's competitor for Nissan's hugely influential Qashqai, which pioneered the concept of a Golf-class people carrier/SUV crossover when it was introduced in 2007.

While buying Time Warner would not wipe out a direct competitor, AT&T would become more influential because it would own both the programming and the delivery systems used by more than a quarter of Americans.

Monitoring competitors, community feedback sites, and influential nodes in the social media space often proves much more relevant to strategic analysis and business imperatives.

The results of Pisa tests in competitor countries, which have become an influential measure for international comparisons, will be used to establish grade five.

Such comparisons have become increasingly influential - measuring pupils against the standards of international competitor countries.

A strong early competitor in the PC wars, Commodore's influential and graphics-heavy OS was unfortunately more or less made extinct by Windows by the early 90s.

Modest, prolific, and the recipient of nine Obies, Fornés who has had an equally influential career as a professor has never had any real competitors.

"There's a lot of us that feel that the public option, that the government is an unfair competitor," Senator Charles E. Grassley, a Republican from Iowa who is influential on health issues, said at the president's meeting.