Many of the core stories are the same.

What is the company's competitive advantage?

Apparently, the immediate future of Venezuelan politics is a game of chess with very few available moves.

Structural and competitive impediments to growth have been largely ignored.

Britain s universities are one of our biggest assets, attracting many thousands of international students from around the world every year.

I have also emphasized that Lebanon must develop its comparative advantages, particularly in education, banking, and services.

Yes, America may be able to maintain a competitive advantage at the very top , the breakthrough research, the invention of the next laser.

Fortunately, Greece is a country of exceptional talents, capable of building new competitive sectors from the ground up, if given the chance.

Moves that do not change the position, like rook a3 a3 (assuming the 3rd rank is empty), are usually not allowed, but sometimes they are in some problems.

Facebook and Twitter were busy today with commentary about the event (and extensive marketing thrust surrounding the government's second anniversary), with IamCoffeedude saying, tongue in cheek

The US and the UK don t want to weaken their competitive advantage by taxing banks while some other countries do not.

By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.

The strategic test will be for regional organizations such as APEC to ensure that the spirit of cooperation always outweighs the member states competitive impulses.

Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net creditor positions.

Hardly anyone predicted the reformist Mohammed Khatami s resounding presidential victory in 1997, and even fewer foresaw hard line President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad s victory in 2005. For those who view Iran s democratic glass as being half full, the March 14 Majles elections will mark the 28th national election since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979, further entrenching a political culture unique in the Middle East.

But, resting on the laurels of the EU s founders, successive European leaders largely failed to perceive the competitive challenges posed by globalization.

In contrast to rigged elections in which the victors are pre determined, Iran s system allows competitive elections among pre selected candidates.

This in turn provides competitive advantage in economic performance, political and social stability and cultural development.

For example, after 1960, when the University of Chicago started creating a Univac computer tape that contained systematic information about millions of stock prices, a great deal of scientific research on the properties of stock prices was taken as confirming the efficient markets hypothesis.

The competitive forces that underlie stock exchanges were seen to force all securities prices to their true fundamental values.

Tax avoidance and evasion was a central theme of the UK s presidency of the G 8 this year, resulting in commitments to unprecedented new levels of automatic exchange of tax information between countries.

These countries may not yet be full democracies, but, because they hold competitive elections, they have met a necessary condition for being a democracy.

An equally simplistic view of democracy is that it is a political system in which periodic competitive elections give the winner the right to govern without constraint.

At the same time, computer programs began to exploit huge databases of games between grandmaster (the highest title in chess), using results from the human games to extrapolate what moves have the highest chances of success.

One of the most profound results of our work concerned Adam Smith's notion that competitive markets led, as if by an invisible hand,'' to efficient outcomes. Our analysis suggested that the invisible hand not only couldn't be seen it wasn't there, or was at best decrepit.

One of the most profound results of our work concerned Adam Smith's notion that competitive markets led, as if by an invisible hand,'' to efficient outcomes.

Whatever the two sides competitive positions, Sino American cooperation on issues like trade, financial stability, energy security, climate change, and pandemics will benefit both countries.

And, because of the country s comparative lack of soft power social, cultural, and economic attractiveness it stands ready touse the competitive advantages (i.e., its resource wealth) available to it.

Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge.

Likewise, weaker eurozone economies like Greece and Spain, which would prefer stronger monetary stimulus than their more competitive counterparts in Europe are willing to accept, may suffer.

Similarly, while competitive elections are essential to any democratic system, a winner take all attitude to electoral outcomes, with the victor concentrating power, is incompatible with democracy in the long term.

The very existence of our Union, and particularly of the euro, has already helped to prevent the competitive devaluations and beggar thy neighbor policies that ravaged Europe during the 1930 s the last time the continent faced so brutal an economic downturn.

Competitive elections for lower level party posts have already been held, with votes for provincial and national party congresses showing electoral slates with 15 30 more candidates than positions.