Sentence examples for scale of competition from inspiring English sources

Now he laughs at the sheer scale of competition at United, where Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernández, Dimitar Berbatov and increasingly Danny Welbeck block his path.

Teo attributed the disparity in the cash rewards to the fact that Olympians faced higher levels and a larger scale of competition, since disabled sportspeople compete within disability classes.

The outcome of interactions will depend critically on both the scale of competition and the relatedness of the parasites involved, with higher relatedness selecting for reduced competition, or even cooperation, and more local competition offsetting this [ 12- 14].

Many highly social species have large group size (e.g. ants, bees, ground squirrels; [ 51]) thus requiring long distance dispersal to escape kin neighborhoods and kin competition (i.e. the scale of competition must be greater than the scale of cooperation, [ 9, 11]).

A few theoretical studies have examined the coevolution of dispersal and cooperation with both parameters allowed to vary and have found that the spatial scale of competition and cooperation relative to dispersal distance is a critical factor governing the nature of a trade-off between dispersal and cooperation [ 15, 18- 21], reviewed in [ 13]).

For example, Huston (1999 and references therein) argues that global plant diversity gradients can be explained by the local-scale mechanisms of competition and competitive exclusion.

Others are aiming to ensure that no competitor, no matter the scale of the competition, has an unfair advantage.

It is a sign of the scale of the competition faced by UK broadcasters in the digital age that Ofcom said there were more than 100,000 internationally accessible online stations.

In 1968, Grotrian-Steinweg entered into talks with the German National Music Council and the Hannover University of Music to increase the scale of the competition.

While the existence of negative competition interactions between woody and herbaceous plants are thus nothing new, the results of this study is of particular significance, which relates to the magnitude and scale of the competition interaction.

Powers et al. 53 suggest that selection for cooperation can generate linkage disequilibrium between cooperative alleles and alleles that predispose the bearer to group living, while Van Dyken and Wade 54 explore how changes in levels of cooperation can affect the scale of resource competition.