Sentence examples for rival partnerships from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, two rival partnerships, between United, which is a unit of the UAL Corporation, and Lufthansa and between Northwest Airlines and KLM, have received antitrust approval, enabling them to coordinate their schedules and pricing, siphoning passengers away from British Air.

It entered the UK market 18 months ago by buying Priory's rival Partnerships in Care, but will expand significantly after the latest deal.

Panmure Gordon said possible bidders included CVC Partners, which bought the company's smaller rival Partnership Assurance for £160m in June, Legal & General, Aviva and Prudential.

The fact that competitor Alcatel-Lucent was on its third profit warning while the rival partnership between Nokia and Siemens struggled to boost margins must also have heartened the former ice hockey player.

Walmart, its biggest retail rival, has partnerships with respected nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and aggressively works to drive efficiencies in its stores and fleet, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain.

It would also leave the rival BMG partnership established by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, and Bertelsmann, the German media group, lacking the anchor asset it had been seeking to give it serious clout.

Therefore refusing to fall into the simplistic narratives of Turks that know everything about America through Hollywood movies and ignorant Americans who only think of Turkey on Thanksgiving, the Young Society Leaders stand for the long-term potential in the US-Turkish relationship that rivals any partnership in modern history.

The British, he says, have no illusions about creating an Anglo-German partnership to rival the Franco-German partnership of old.

Rivals for three decades, the two executives have rarely appeared in public together and have generally been viewed as bitter rivals, despite occasional partnerships.

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And while the two companies may ultimately be able to win approval, it appears that it will require that executives surrender a significant amount of discretion over how they structure partnerships with rival Internet service providers.