Sentence examples for resisting competition from inspiring English sources

But when Akbar Al Baker, boss of Qatar Airways, said that the reason Delta was resisting competition was because it flies "crap aeroplanes that are 35 years old", he had a point.

Coping with all-weather trading, socially far removed from the antiques shop proprietors a few minutes away, its stall holders have valiantly resisted competition from stereotypical shopping centers.

In such markets, margins are generally higher, and traders might resist competition that would lower their profits, said Bruce Usher, former chief executive of TreasuryConnect, an electronic platform for interest rate swaps that was acquired by eSpeed in 2001.

Cheetahs' approach to hunting their prey can resist competition from other predators.

The idea that Cablevision is resisting its competition is nonsense, attorney Peter Bee tells residents.

The yeast thrives in the must despite its high acidity (pH 3 to 4) and sugar concentration (>100 g/L), and resists competition from other microorganisms.

A recent paper by Harry Garretsen and Jolanda Peeters of the Central Bank of the Netherlands analysed annual data for 19 OECD countries from 1981 to 2001 and found that big, rich countries, such as Britain and Germany, were better able to resist tax competition and maintain high corporate tax rates than smaller, poorer ones.

Its enigmatic charm has helped it to resist fierce competition from fast food chains.

This indicates an intermediate position of the native species in the competitive hierarchy within the members of the genus occurring in the studied region, and its ability to resist the competition by the less invasive alien congener.

Some sectors are resisting change: farmers fear competition and judges resent being given a new body of laws.

Instead, the big divide is over globalisation, and whether to resist or embrace competition between different countries.