outcompete them

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Well over half of all financing agreements in Dubai are already written using English law.A more serious threat to British legal firms would be if "American law firms start to outcompete them", according to James Martin, a lawyer at Linklaters based in Dubai until recently.

Did modern humans outcompete them for resources?

David Brooks writes that "today, the rich don't exploit the poor, they just outcompete them".

Cohn: Rubio could outcompete them, but I'm not sure I think it's likely.

David Brooks writes, "But the core issue is that today's rich don't exploit the poor; they just outcompete them".

I guess the real question is whether Rubio can outcompete them — or needs one or both to stumble badly.

The primary reason, most likely, is that we outcompeted them for resources and killed them.

By interbreeding with wild fish and outcompeting them for food and habitat, selectively bred salmon, environmentalists maintain, are changing the genetic composition of wild populations.

Modern humans are known to have interbred with Neanderthals, leaving their mark in the genomes of many people alive today, and are implicated in their demise 30,000 years ago, perhaps by outcompeting them for food and other crucial resources.

The discovery throws into doubt the theory that the arrival of modern humans was solely responsible for the demise of the neanderthals, by outcompeting them for food or even engaging in the earliest acts of genocide.

These features probably contributed to the more than 100-million-year-existence of multituberculatesuccessccestoryory that ended only after true rodents independently arose about 60 million years ago and apparently outcompeted them to extinction.