Sentence examples for wasteful competition from inspiring English sources

"In the mold of Rockefeller or Morgan, they formed syndicates to end wasteful competition.

The report praised the dedication of thousands of humanitarian workers but had sharp words for the "wasteful" competition between aid agencies for funds.

His version of localism, based as it is on diverse, fragmented forms of co-production and wasteful competition for human and financial resources, is not the panacea for the good society.

Critics of the new, more entrepreneurial aid industry such as the Dutch journalist Linda Polman, in her recent book War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times, see empire-building and wasteful competition as well as worthwhile altruism.

Earlier, Ruth Kelly, the transport secretary, told the conference that Britain's railways would "double in size" over the next decade, promised to make the train ticketing structure simpler and said local councils would have more power over buses to avoid "wasteful competition of the kind that brought Manchester's traffic to a halt last year".

So long as they fulfil the very basic requirements of probity, registered charities may cover a multitude of crankiness and inefficiency: cut-throat wasteful competition between near-identical tin-rattlers, advertising campaigns that distort important social issues; or empire building charity managers with little genuine assessment of their outcomes.

His intellectual heirs, like the economists Robert Frank and Juliet Schor, treat the intangible pleasures of style as either deceptive "salesmanship" (Veblen's term) or wasteful status competition.

Accordingly, it worked to stabilize the economy, eliminate wasteful or predatory competition, and protect the rights of labour.

What works is washing hands, bringing cleaners back in house, collecting evidence, sharing best practice, not wasteful turf-war competition.

The planners regarded competition as wasteful because it allowed an excess number of competitors, and then forced some to close down.

Conventional wisdom argues that domestic competition is wasteful: it leads to duplication of effort and prevents companies from achieving economies of scale.