Sentence examples for virtues of competition from inspiring English sources

At the IoD, where we believe wholeheartedly in the virtues of competition, we welcomed the news.

In 2000, he was the first to break the taboo, describing the NEP as "mollycoddling", and extolling the virtues of competition.

Over the last year, Mr. Takeshima, a former finance ministry bureaucrat who studied economics at Johns Hopkins University, has traveled around Japan delivering speeches on the virtues of competition to dozens of skeptical business groups.

Isn't it ironic that an administration that preaches the virtues of competition and the free-enterprise system would allow the Pentagon to sign a "sole source contract" with a provider of translators, thereby eliminating a competitor?

It has trumpeted the virtues of competition, of breaking up Royal Mail, of letting in private competitors who can deliver mail and parcels up to the final mile, leaving it to Royal Mail to carry out all the other work to ensure delivery for that final mile.

Everything you've heard about the virtues of competition in markets–and about how supply and demand work in concert to set the proper prices for goods, services and securities is irrelevant.

Jamison directs the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida where he's extolled the virtues of competition-crushing media mergers as innovative and good for consumers.

Their backer wanted a satirical piece, and that's what they gave him, mocking the hallowed Olympic virtue of competition.

A more far-reaching solution would be to embrace the modest proposal to abandon the Olympic Games altogether in the interest of preserving the virtues of athletic competition.

As a professional game played by men sized and shaped like average citizens, baseball has always seemed to represent the virtues of honest competition and fair play.

SCOTT D. PLATTON Washington, April 9, 2013 To the Editor: According to David Brooks (column, April 9), Margaret Thatcher changed British values for the better, away from cooperation, self-exploration and narcissism to the "vigorous virtues" of ambition, competition and rectitude.