Sentence examples for legitimate competitive from inspiring English sources

Cathy Kenny, a spokeswoman for the New York State Petroleum Council, defended zone pricing as a legitimate competitive practice at a hearing before Mr. Alden's committee.

"We view this event as a positive indication that Guidant has a legitimate, competitive entrant into the drug-eluting stent market," it said.

Finally, many economists are skeptical of courts' and prosecutors' abilities to distinguish real price-fixing arrangements from other complex arrangements with legitimate pro-competitive purposes.

I don't mean to knock the legitimate function of competitive intelligence: sharp-eyed observation of market trends, as opposed to the cloak-and-dagger stuff.

The underground economy is exploitive of the workers themselves and also puts legitimate businesses at a competitive disadvantage".

But legitimate manufacturers remain quite competitive at the bottom of the market, so grey-market firms are increasingly offering more sophisticated devices at dramatic discounts to branded smart-phones, says BDA, a consultancy in Beijing.

Nokia is only sustainable at its current size if it can become a legitimate player in the competitive, software-heavy, smartphone market and go head-to-head with Google's Android operating system and Apple's iOS (two rivals Savander evoked repeatedly in his address).

A rematch would be a gift for anyone who likes competitive baseball and legitimate stars.

While the research house said investors' concerns over possible acquisitions and an environment of rising interest rates were legitimate, it suggested that the competitive threat from the satellite/telco partnerships, the advent of fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) and potential price wars between the cable companies and the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) had been somehow overemphasized.

They claim the agreements were pro-competitive parts of legitimate collaborations between the companies, many of which had executives on each other's boards or started as the same company as with Pixar and Lucasfilm.

Internal instant messages, e-mails and company documents revealed an intense and competitive culture that blended legitimate research with illegally obtained tips.Mr Rajaratnam's lawyer says he will appeal against his conviction.