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The coexistence of many plant species competing for a few resources is one of the central puzzles of community ecology.

Eight men were competing for the title and a place in the Worldwide Mr Gay pageant, to be held next month in Oslo, Norway.

Furthermore, you'll be doing this in a context where others will be competing with you and wanting the next job up.

You're competing with players from all over the world but you've got to expect that at the biggest club in the world.

James, at least, had a stable support system that kept him in one place. Competing factions moved Mayo to three schools in three states.

Although competing on price is as old as mankind, the consumer is often still sensitive for price discounts and special offers.

In business, one year you might be competing ruthlessly with your rival, the next you'd both be on the same side of the fence.

Auto makers, as is often the case, must juggle competing demands.

Without the competing demands, he says, 'we might have been able to use what boom we had to greater effect. '

Mr Madoff was no hawkish salesman. He often turned down the country club members competing to throw money at him.

It's been a thrilling start to the season. I can't over-emphasis how much I missed competing over the past few months.

Running in a road race is all about setting a goal and achieving it, and the only person you should be competing against is yourself.

It is still hard even in London, where you are competing with banks that can pay double the salaries. But it is better than San Francisco.

The only realistic way of competing with copycats is to make sure we are at the top of our game and continue to engage our audience.

Indeed, world leaders seem to be competing with one another to churn out ever more ambitious targets on global warming.

Do you fancy travelling to those three places in a week and competing against the best in the world at the end of it to further your career?

Third, thanks to Qaddafi's obsession with a facade of direct democracy, Libya has no experience of party politics and competing interests.

Every pilgimage they make it a competing race instead of a inspiring lapse.

In the signaling story, what matters is how much education you have compared to competing workers.

Ethical dilemmas are the result of conflicts between potential benefits or harms for two or more competing interests.

With that said, remember that you are part of a tough competition and that you're competing with actual professionals from around the world.

The third was the right to choose, to choose to buy or not buy or to buy among several different competing products.

At this very moment, there must be at least nine other companies competing for your customers.

Finally, European governments seem to be competing to carry out the most drastic fiscal adjustment.

In a sense, they were competing to see who was more loyal to Chairman Mao.

If it turns out that it is a competing state, you can instead focus more on superconductivity , " he said. "

In competing speeches today, President Obama said the U. S. went off course with practices like water boarding.

It was as if the two movements were actually competing religions rather than branches of the same faith.

That makes him in many ways like Steve Jobs, who designed and marketed products better than already existing similar competing products.

The competing melodies confused the little rabbit and he did not know which way to turn .

But isn't it at least somewhat useful to think of our nation as if it were America Inc. , competing in the global marketplace? No.

Google's strategy, he adds, seems to be to "wall off content so that it cannot be crawled and searched by competing companies. "

Since the number of moose and caribou is falling, hunters are allowed to shoot the competing wolves from the air.

Yet by competing to see who could give the biggest bribes, the winning states reduced the value of those investments to the United States.

The ocean used to be a free-for-all , with fleets flying the flags of various countries competing for fish thousands of miles from home.

It's all about competing. You have to be ready to compete against anybody and just play hard. Sooner or later, good things will happen.

Republicans run Arizona and are now in a state of hysteria, competing with one another to deal most toughly with the threat.

Just as he sought a unified theory in science, he sought a world federalism that would impose order on competing nations.

Likewise, it will not be easy to deal with multiple and sometimes competing priorities in regard to access-related library projects.

Alf won't stand in your light even though you seem to be competing with him .

Listening to the news on the radio, it's easy to imagine the world is divided into rival tribes and competing civilisations.

But if you are competing in the Champions League then you know you are going to be up against some top quality strikers just to get a game.

The first games took place in 1948 in London with two British teams competing in an archery competition.

Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I've been doing it all my life.

Being out on that court competing , trying to win every single game, every single play.

OK, so I said that none of these networks are competing with Facebook. That doesn't prevent them from making comparisons to it.

The Message paraphrase says, "In all this comparing and grading and competing, they quite miss the point. "

The U. S. and China are now most certainly competing in what will no doubt be a long contest.

for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman from a competing company the next time around .

One afternoon, the trainees tackled weed-picking with enthusiasm, competing to see who could dig up the largest clump.

With two sides from the same nation competing for the trophy, it was always likely to be a cagey affair.

BARBARA KLEIN: College students from all over the world are competing in the United States Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon.

Better to turn off the radio, shut the door on competing noises, if possible.

Having other retailers competing with you so openly puts Amazon under pressure to make sure that it has the lowest prices.

In the years before the crisis , there was a race to the bottom, with countries competing on the "lightness " of regulation .

All this is difficult for aircraft-makers, who are used to being able to hang competing engines off the same wing.

All competing cars must then reduce speed and form up in line behind the safety car no more than ten car lengths apart.

All this means that there will be no shortage of banks competing to manage the money of Belgium's millionaires.

Another-r expert said Chinese technology was more than capable of competing on the global market.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Much of that business is currently involves large Indian firms working with Malaysian ones, competing against the likes of IBM, Kassim said.

He said Taiwan needed to stop competing with Beijing to add to the short list of 23 countries which recognise it rather than China.

An employee comes back to his house after an exhausting day, bearing the censure of his boss and competing with his colleagues.

Ideally, this would take the form of a multilateral settlement of the competing territorial claims of the littoral states.

The correct way to conduct the trial would have been a side-by-side comparison between the defendant and the competing system.

Japan, with its own need for oil, has pressed a competing proposal for a pipeline that would bypass China.

At the time, the BlackBerry wasn't even a smartphone, it was still a PDA (Personal Data Assistant) and was competing head to head with Palm.

By comparing the three competing theories, only the approach of laws of economics is able to put forward a convincing normative theory.

You aren't competing for readers, even if you're both trying to get the same readers, because readers can read multiple blogs.

Moreover, this combination never would've been tried if two competing companies hadn't sat down and put their heads together.

We had a lot of sales guys in the field who were all upset, cause they were competing against other companies who were doing this trick.

After a year and two major operations, she was back on a bike and competing again.

You may have to be in the top 8 to get on the first page, because you may also be competing with news items or video.

But I cannot wish away the sometimes competing demands of economic security and competitiveness.

The need for operational improvement is one thing; competing with a radically disruptive business model can be much more demanding.

Competing with the state-owned capital and foreign capital, the only way is to be bigger and stronger.

With most of the prominent reformists blocked from competing, the parliamentary elections turned into a contest of conservative factions.

love for the water led her to pursue a berth on the national yachting team competing for the America's Cup.

Whichever field you were in and at whichever level, you were competing against other similar sites on a fairly level playing field.

Retailers have been competing heavily for sales of the game as they head into what is expected to be a tough holiday season.

Quite suddenly, after the long search for a quantum mechanics, there existed two competing and seemingly antithetical versions.

Performers will not be permitted to wear ANY body piercing or any other jewellery whilst warming up or competing.

However, its net flux was found to be into the soil, probably due to competing production and consumption processes within the soil.

Unlike most of their Chinese rivals, they will be competing at the top end of the market, rather than the bottom.

"Even competing against themselves it's a very significant improvement, " he said.

The Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress and the London 2012 Olympic torch are among designs competing to be crowned the best of the year.

At the moment, the biggest threat to India-China relations may be their competing claims for big swaths of territory along their border.

You are always competing with me, and judging by tonight, you know what, you still are!

The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

Multiple releases, competing resources, and time pressures can all add up to additional issues within your environment or organization.

Balance the competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk to produce a quality product.

Additionally, the managers in a company are really like the employee who works seriously, competing for but speaking of nothing.

This narrowing owes little, it seems, to banks competing more vigorously for mortgage business.

And with 60 men from Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria competing in it was a moustache buckling job for jury to decide which beard was best.

To not be lost in the market, the execution of the computer integrated manufacture system (CIMS) is a strong competing method.

governmental procurement , mainly performed in form of tendering procedures , is in nature a competing contracting.

Team up with your friends in cooperative mode or play against them in battle mode, with up to 4 players competing for the highest score.

It is about competing, as I said earlier, and obviously the fun about it is bigger if you manage to win the competition.

Are there any other projects that you see as competing with or complementing MVC Contrib?

People familiar with negotiations say that Ms Lagarde and the rest of the management team have tried to balance these competing imperatives.

The IOC had said previously that it had verified the passports of all athletes competing at the games.

Volvo could have launched it up the value chain, competing overseas on sturdiness and safety rather than price.

Now that this view has been proved false, a whole slew of new theories are competing to take its place.

Again the yo-yo flew, again the sound competing with the screaming in her head. Punctuating the beat of the music.

We must be prepared to grapple with the complexity of the world and the competing demands of sometimes incompatible values.

Victorias Secret hopefully! Now that my dream of competing on ANTM has actually come true, I feel like anything is possible.

Recently, he said, Dell salespeople made a pitch for him to buy a competing touch-screen PC.

And when you go into a bookstore, don't you feel like every book is competing against the others for your attention?

At least, however, Apple isn't blocking these apps, which are, after all, competing with the downloadable shows in iTunes.

During the early 1990's, there were five different RISC architectures that were actively competing with one another.

The analysts did not specify what banks or insurers were competing to lend on the California properties.

Provide information on how the company makes and loses money, upcoming products, and services and strategies for competing.

Many central and local SOEs that were never before involved in real estate have been competing for a share of this booming market.

The paper discusses the price competing strategy and the structure evolution of the telecommunication market by means of game analysis.

With no proper government since 1991, it has been a bloody kaleidoscope of competing clans and fiefs.

A system consists of a finite number of resources to be distributed among a number of competing processes.

The system is not perfect: children from higher-income families enjoy an advantage in competing for the top slots.

Choose at least two competing manufacturers of antivirus programs for the comparison.

second-hand books, teaching materials and education market into a bookshop and publishers are competing for the cake.

MNCs are no longer competing among themselves but with domestic major companies as well for experienced bilinguals.

All of these results in competing demands for land and impoverishment of poorer groups whose land needs cannot be met.

The ability for leaders broadly to be able to adjust to the environment that we are now competing in.

A dismal employment picture precipitates competing remedies from the president and his challengers. But will any of them work?

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of Cold War situation competing for hegemony between the U.

Regulators have reduced prices further by cutting the fees charged to connect calls between competing networks by 10% a year.

Instead, it could be the end result of a battle between two competing factions of Wikipedia editors.

The basis for transmitting CAN messages and for competing for bus access is the ability to represent a dominant and a recessive bit value.

It has the same quality and the price is about half that of competing products.

News photography and the competing newspapers now show unprecedented unique features and interactivity in the age of "picture reading" .

Biden was competing with Obama and others for the Democratic nomination at the time, but dropped out of the race early on.

"These games will have more athletes, more competing nations and more sporting events than ever before, " he said.

But much of the new capacity was financed by the federal government, and after the war these plants were sold to competing companies.

Mr Vestberg said Ericsson would not get distracted by a debate about whether it was competing on a level playing field with Huawei.

In a trust, stock owners of many competing companies give control of their stock to a committee, or group, of trustees.

Google is today clearing one of the last hurdles it faces before truly competing with Microsoft Office.

The prospect of the world champion competing in the game look remote after she tore the cartilage of her right knee at a pregame .

Showing a decent respect for the opinions of mankind does not mean competing in a global popularity contest at the expense of sound policy.

The estimated effects are not undermined by including controls for a wide variety of competing economic, demographic, political factors.

"A bad chemical reaction is a competing reaction, " he said.

However, with two companies competing for the natural monopoly, life is always tough for either Boeing or Airbus.

Learn why the company's products are better than competing products.

However, he left a year later after competing unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome.

Competing with his communist convictions were his deep love of his homeland, and his desire for recognition there.

Able to work strategically, under pressure, to tight deadlines and balance multiple and competing tasks.

Eventually you'll find that there will be a few women who are competing for your attention.

He never likes competing with others, but competition is everywhere.

But after long hours of meetings and with various competing solutions on the table, a deal is still not in sight.

Banks speak of a war for talent capable of identifying and competing for the growing revenue stream.

All this uncertainty has engendered two competing political narratives.

For those who are coming to see more than top athletes competing, Mr. Zhang's courtyard offers something the five stars cannot.

The U. S. car market does not need more companies competing for a shrinking pie.

"That's not exactly the type of cooperation you see between competing projects within IBM, " he says. "And that quickly became addictive. "

Participants believed they were competing on this task against another player in an adjacent room.

The problem was there were two competing versions of the software the company was using for knowledge management.

I heard competing explanations for German's preference for the company of the Russia and China.

Rather than seeing open-source software as one of two competing ideologies and focusing on the struggle, Ubuntu thinks about the user.

That is to say, the mechanism for competing of isomers only can be roughly described in terms of free energy.

That kind of competing only produces people with a bad heart and character, full of selfish, greed, pride, and jealousy.

In areas lucky enough to have a little green, armed herders are violently competing for dwindling resources.

Competing hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution of high levels of multiple mating, but this issue is far from resolved.

The chaotic politics that emerges when competing interests contest control of a diverse whole is part of the explanation.

China's dirigiste ambitions versus its often chaotic reality, its competing fiefdoms and its ideological uncertainty put it over a barrel.

A. You get the full range of sports, and you're around all the best sports photographer who are competing for the best picture as well.

Yes ah, really did not expect the bare mountain, competing become so beautiful.

It recognized that it needed its potential customers to be aware of its product, and to recognise its products, over any competing product.

These economic plans do not necessarily spell the end of high-tech manufacturing for competing nations.

Organized, attentive to detail and able to prioritize and handle multiple projects with competing deadlines.

Her sword stands for the power of the court, her scales for the competing claims of the petitioners.

Competing with the Total Control Theory there is another bit of conventional wisdom about emotional control that is also quite prevalent.

The natural world is vastly complex web of competing interests with no allegiance to any species or philosophy.

For proving that the peoples of Arabia are perfectly capable of competing with Americans when it comes to foolish real estate speculation.

Competing against them tends to induce sweating instead.

It measures and compares the total costs and benefits of projects that are competing for scarce resources in monetary terms.

Though, an ABC competing on this show has an overall edge since we have the best of both worlds.

So, I wonder, what attracted him to the competing issues at stake in South of the Border and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps?

It is far too early to stop seeking competing explanations for the existence of vacuum energy and its very small size.

So for the record, let us note that the unit has manual zoom and focus, whereas some of the competing units are powered.

Even as a teenager I was as good as most of the older guys competing in the sport.

Now Nintendo is competing in a much broader market where any device with a screen and Internet connection is a gaming device.

India is already competing fiercely with China for some of these assets, especially energy sources.

In truth, none of these three competing plans has a satisfactory solution.

In such situations, it is difficult to try to balance a country's competing needs, she said.

Each of these "stages on life's way" represents competing views on life and as such potentially conflicts with one another.

and consumer attitudes regarding the purchase and use both of the advertiser's products and of competing products.

Meanwhile, China moves ahead with plans for a competing space station of its own.

That sounds like a way of imposing uniformity rather than allowing competing views to flourish.

These banking credits can be quoted at the time of competing for any future defense contract.

Although there were only four horses competing, it was an exciting race.

America and China have shown growing signs of friction over their competing security presence around the trade-clogged shores of Asia.

That's the only way to be congruent and to live as a whole person instead of merely as a bag of competing parts.

Have there been any other examples of non-national teams competing in the qualifying rounds of the World Cup?

Since, whether competing or attracting, only the best will do, resources get piled into them, almost regardless of the consequences.

Increase the number of ads competing for your site by setting up your custom channels for placement targeting.

Various ploys are used to try to trip up the machines competing in the Turing test.

Your teams will all need to understand that there will be competing resources now for the same product.

The sea and its mostly uninhabited islands are subject to competing claims of sovereignty by several countries.

These machines are not to be shared with other applications competing for local CPU, memory and disk resources.

The tendency is to treat these themes as competing and engage in an interesting but inconclusive debate about their relative merits.

The kids in the photo are competing in their town's Youth Fishing Derby to see who can catch the most fish.

Since so much software is written to run on Windows, it is difficult for competing operating systems to enter the market.

As Fiorentina are still competing in the UEFA Cup, this gives Milan real hope of being able to step above the Florentines.

The guys think they're going to be on a show called All American Man, competing in grueling physical challenges.

How economists are competing to make sense of our failed financial system.

This was the start of my bodybuilding career and love for competing.

The best possible bargaining position, of course, is to have 'a strong outside option, ' such as a competing job offer, she says.

A: What are the selling points of your product B: Compared with competing products , ours is smaller and lighter.

Currently, packaging has become a commodity production in the manufacturers and distributors a the most direct means of competing.

If you're a blogger competing against writers who cover a vast variety of topics, cover just one, but do it better than anyone else.

Never mind that the difference in thinness between these competing tablets is two-tenths of a millimeter. Thinner is thinner.

They said that they thought their restaurant would have better business if the competing restaurant was put out of business.

A security interest in competing with the realization of the problem is one of the hot spots and points.

Reframing privacy in terms of security still results in a balancing of competing rights.

So if Apple sells iPhones as though they were iPods, they will be far more expensive than competing handsets.

Blu-ray is one of two next- generation formats competing for market dominance.

Even with no prizes or voting, I would have won this completion from the laughs I got while competing. I'd play again in a heartbeat.

Both Stilwell and Wedemeyer found themselves involved in competing priorities between the air and ground wars.

Google also agreed to stop contractual restrictions that prevented small businesses from advertising on competing search platforms.

Team-mate Matthew Wilson also has previous experience of competing in Greece and has been a regular point-scorer in 2011.

You may have lots of information to share, but in email you are in a long list of others competing for your recipient's attention.

Competing on a racetrack gets a bit tiresome after a while.

In mating, several competing males form a breeding ball around one female that can last up to four weeks.

But that's not stopping her from competing for her lifelong dream.

Although MoGo is still some way from competing on the fullsize Go grid, humanity may ultimately have to accept defeat on yet another front.

He noted , however , that the United States and Egypt, among others, have offered competing proposals , which envision a non-U. N.

Still, the differences among the auto makers suggest competing technologies will jostle for prominence.

How do you feel when you think of all the competing writers within the African-American contemporary novel industry?

At elite levels, all of the athletes competing against one another possess very similar physical abilities.

They'll now be competing against the company that makes their operating system.

Prices would be lower because credit would not be competing with money to bid up these goods.

But many populations are also affected by an invasive geranium from the Mediterranean which is out-competing the butterfly's host plant.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Superior command over English language has proved to be the foremost advantage that India has over its competing countries.

Nike is not competing for the low end of the market: shoes produced its is Dongguang factory can cost as much as $185 a pair.

This will mean competing with the United States politically, economically and technologically.

This was largely due to the competing claim of Doctor Frederic Cook who told the world he had reached the Pole a four-year earlier.

But if you are manager of the market or peddler of fish whom competing with a lot of peers; your practice in downtown is of problem.

As the end of the year approached, ailing Wall Street banks were competing with each other to attract capital from potential investors.

But first it's got to overcome costs and competing interests.

Display manufacturers are competing intensely to solve this problem with a variety of technologies.

North Korean gymnasts have been banned from competing in international events for two years, including the 2012 London Olympics.

It's competing for your users' time, and that means they're competing with your application.

The authorities asserted that an appropriate balance had been reached between competing interests.

A competing company, KT Engineering in Huntsville, Ala. , expects to conduct its initial test-firing of a methane engine this year.

The bottom line depends on many competing factors.

Competing jurisdictions where divorce law may be considered more favourable to men than England include Russia and Scotland.

For some of the competing countries, the WSC in India will also be their first appearance.

Competing snails must reach the edge of the table once set down in the middle.

Furthermore, even if the dollar falls again, where will the capacity for a surge in exports and import-competing production come from?

Another worrying scenario is of internal chaos, collapse or civil war, with factions competing for possession of fissile materials.

But overall, we applaud Zoho for its continued innovation and for competing effectively against the big guns!