We investigated by likelihood ratio tests for competing nested pairs of models [ 29] whether both model refinements are statistically necessary to expand the model structure.
I won trophies for competing in chess.
America, a great democracy with all the bureaucracy necessary for dealing with competing interests in peacetime, must marshal its energies now to deal with times that are anything but ordinary.
Many of the ADA grant opportunities support areas of high need (early investigators, innovative projects) that may not otherwise be funded or for which bridging/start-up funding may be necessary to compete for future grant support by large federal organizations, such as the NIH.
In this case any allegedly necessary competing clause — for example, "a, b, c etc., are the only things" (that is, Tractarian objects) — would just be a nonsense-string produced in the misfired attempt to put into words something that is shown by the fact that when analysis bottoms out it yields as names only such as figure in the conjunction "Ga & Gb & Gc…" (cf. Tractatus 4.1272).
Otherwise, a process of model selection may be necessary, where competing models are estimated and the quality of the results compared, with appropriate adjustments for model complexity.
Younger European firms acquire far more easily the experience necessary to compete for private commissions.
Young athletes emulate their idols, and they may view steroid use as necessary to compete for a college scholarship or a job in the majors (because everyone else is doing it).
She also says the commercialization of state lotteries is necessary to compete for consumers inundated with other products, many of which, like lottery tickets, are generally bought on impulse.
The enlarged group, to be known as Mouchel Parkman, is expected to have a market capitalisation of about £220m - a scale management believe is necessary to compete for bigger contracts.
