Sentence examples for threat of competitiveness from inspiring English sources

The British government's Energy Secretary Ed Davey says the threat of competitiveness that the UK and Europe could face from the US bringing online their shale reserves should not be under-estimated.

Skills shortages were said to be the biggest threat to competitiveness, with over half of those polled concerned about future access to skilled migrant workers.

"The inadequacies of Asia's infrastructure networks are a bottleneck to growth, a threat to competitiveness and an obstacle to poverty reduction," the report said.

Higher energy prices could produce on their turn a deterioration of competitiveness and a threat for social goals.

Creative competitions involve varying degrees of competitiveness.

Worse, Spain shared several of the smaller economies' weaknesses, like a loss of competitiveness and big current-account deficits.The immediate threat of contagion from Greece receded on June 29th when the Greek parliament passed a plan for more austerity, opening the way for the country to get another chunk of bail-out money.

TORONTO -- Faced with the threat of their sport being excluded from the Winter Olympics after 2014 because of a lack of competitiveness, women's hockey officials have held preliminary discussions with the N.H.L. about forming an N.H.L.-supported women's league.

A healthy workforce is not only more likely to take less time off work through illness (absenteeism): employees are also less prone to 'presenteeism' (under-performing at work), which can be a threat to the competitiveness of the company.

One problem is lack of competitiveness.

Nothing else compares in terms of competitiveness.

"The situation encouraged the most negative kind of competitiveness".