Sentence examples for urgent competition from inspiring English sources

Humanity is currently engaged in a far-reaching and urgent competition that pits the need to embed a 21st century "green economy" against the rapid implosion of our climate and natural life-support systems.

In the State of the Union address, President Obama staked out a new rationale for reviving America's industrious creativity: where he once argued that renewed innovation would combat recession, he has now framed the endeavor as an existential necessity in the face of urgent competition from abroad.

By Evan Osnos January 25 , 2011In the State of the Union address, President Obama staked out a new rationale for reviving America's industrious creativity: where he once argued that renewed innovation would combat recession, he has now framed the endeavor as an existential necessity in the face of urgent competition from abroad.

Colin Matthews said a decision on new airport capacity was "urgent", because of competition from rival airports in Europe and the Middle East.

"There is now an urgent need for the competition authorities around the world to examine the market for iron ore, and the market behaviour of the three companies who dominate the business.

And on numerous occasions Pentagon auditors have caught officials writing bogus justifications for avoiding competition claiming, for instance, that only one firm can do the work when clearly others can; or saying the need is too urgent to wait for a competition, when it is demonstrably not.

The business landscape for AHCs in the United States is changing rapidly due to legislative reforms, growing competition, and the urgent need to control health care expenditures.

Harmoni had won 12 contracts to run the new 111 non-urgent phone line, beating off competition from NHS Direct, the current state-backed provider.

The increased sensitivity for environmental protection and global market competition are pointing out urgent needs for significant improvement of fuel economy, while nowadays the agricultural tractors fuel consumption is growing, as a consequence of an increased number of components supplied.

"It became a competition and it was pretty urgent for us to put a proposal on the table".

We understand the DfT has ordered two urgent independent inquiries into the west coast competition and the wider DfT rail franchise programme.