Sentence examples for weakened competitive from inspiring English sources
The latter may know that a limited supply of faith-school places means many parents will have to settle for a secular alternative whether they want to or not.Or it could be that, by giving religious people more choice than other parents, the government has weakened competitive pressures in another way.
The NYSE's weakened competitive position left the Big Board no other choice but to find in Wall Street parlance "a strategic partner," which in plain English means it needed to sell itself.
Mr. Greenspan also said the gas market was exposing a "weakened competitive position" for American industries that had counted on much lower energy prices.
We hypothesised that phage would promote more equitable coexistence of bacterial competitors by weakening competitive interactions through reductions in density of the competitively dominant species.
"This could weaken competitive forces, drive up costs and (in procurement) reduce value for money for the E.U. taxpayer," it said.
"The financial crisis and recession have weakened the competitive constraint from the smaller providers," the OFT's report said.
In contrast, the relationship between manufacturing flexibility and novelty-centred business model design is weakened by competitive intensity but strengthened by demand heterogeneity.
Elsewhere, Sun Microsystems said sales were weakened by competitive pressures and soft demand in the server space, and Knight Ridder posted am improvement in quarterly results, adding that it was confident it could meet Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter.
It will also weaken a competitive advantage Epoch Capital Partners had been citing to potential clients.
The second is whether it will be able to fight off regulatory changes that could severely weaken its competitive position against other exchanges.
Furthermore, only 5% of these funds find their way out of Japan, compared with 50% of funds in the private sector: that keeps the yen too strong and weakens the competitive power of many local industries, says Yoshito Sengoku, a politician in the DPJ.
