Sentence examples for stepped-up competition from inspiring English sources

The stepped-up competition may represent a coming of age for the entire idea of reading longer texts on a portable digital device.

Faced with stagnant world demand and stepped-up competition from abroad, especially Japan, the privately-owned Peugeot-Citroen group and the nationalized Renault see their market shares falling and their profits melting away.

While that represents just a tiny fraction of the total revenues of their parent companies, the news divisions are expected to post a profit and show growth, which is not easy at a time of stepped-up competition on television and online.

Later that year VMware's shares began slipping amid concerns about revenue growth and, to a lesser extent, stepped-up competition from Microsoft.

Amid stepped-up competition from Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, AMD has faltered the last two quarters, and investors have responded by chopping the stock in half since January.

Takano said stricter lending standards, and stepped-up competition from institutional investors, have forced more people into rental homes, driving up home prices.

Both systems run periodic research assessment exercises, like modern Domesday books, that have stepped up competition and internal mobility.

Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.The BRICs have also stepped up competition between one another in third countries.

The music download service Rhapsody has stepped up competition against Apple's iTunes by making its catalog of five million songs available without electronic restrictions on playback or duplication and allowing free previews of complete songs.

China's Dalian Wanda has stepped up competition with Walt Disney, opening its second theme park in the country.

It's up to us to decide how we make the most of them and how they help propel our organizations as we face stepped up competition.