Sentence examples for states compete from inspiring English sources

Critics say that no one wins when states compete against one another by offering increasingly large tax breaks.

There seems to be some sort of status contest as states compete to prove they, too, can meet the criteria.

Every year, 50 high-school seniors, representing our 50 states, compete in a televised national Junior Miss contest, sponsored by Eastman Kodak, Kraft Foods, and Breck Shampoo.

They provided less money for the Race to the Top program, under which states compete for federal grants for their schools.

States compete with other states, cities compete with surrounding suburbs, and even small towns have entered the race with the goal of defeating their neighbors.

The more venerable cars are known colloquially as Maharaja-mobiles, and the former kings of Indian states compete, in a friendly way, for the top prizes.

— Gedike undertook a ruthless talent search in an academic world where states competed for researchers.

Most economists are critical of states' competing for jobs by offering ever-larger subsidies and depleting public resources.

Government subsidies for film and television productions proliferated in flush times as more than 40 states competed for entertainment work.

More than 4,000 boys and girls from schools in seven states competed at the meet in Upper Manhattan.

Yet Cumings concludes that "in the aftermath of war two Korean states competed toe-to-toe in economic development, turning both of them into modern industrial nations".