Sentence examples for stiffening competition from inspiring English sources
And the perception of stiffening competition for low-paid work may be driving public opinion.
Parents became concerned that their teenagers might lose ground in the ever stiffening competition for admission to elite colleges.
To the expert eye, Federer's seeming decline has to do with age, as well as stiffening competition.
For example, Toyota's mainstay Camry sedan faces stiffening competition from Nissan's hot-selling Altima and a revamped Accord from Honda Motor.
But Wall Street analysts and industry executives said this was hardly a rejection of the technology, but rather a reflection of the stiffening competition and relentless price pressure.
For those who wander the city streets, though, the main effect of the stiffening competition will be more of the smartest bus shelters in history.
Yet the flood of applications to highly selective colleges -- Middlebury received 5,300 applications for the current freshman class and offered admission to 1,430 applicants -- has stiffened competition faced by legacies, who until the 1960's were virtually assured admission.
In a letter to grantees in February, the foundation said that the current financial climate had forced it to reduce its education grant-making budget by 40 percent since 2008, stiffening the competition.
Direction of the company was passing to persons unrelated to the du Ponts, and the company's structure was changing: after 1940 only one chief executive was a du Pont (1962 67), and the company underwent extensive departmental reorganizations in 1967 and 1973 76, largely to streamline operations in the face of stiffening foreign competition.
So if free trade strengthens our economic rivals, then it may harm us in the long run by stiffening international competition, even if it was advantageous for us to buy goods from these rivals in the short run.
There are plans for two new laws in the coming months: one to make it easier to shed workers and loosen the labour market, another to stiffen competition and cut red tape for entrepreneurs.
