They're rivals.

They're your competition.

Two of a trade seldom agree.

I don't know who the players are.

I don't know what the market is like.

But firms also care about what their competitors do.

He always takes advantage of the mistakes made by his rivals.

If I know what your competition does, how are you going to prevent your competition from eating your lunch over here?

Its only option is to be better than the competition.

Complete Genomics and its competitors are about to create huge amounts of data.

Their competitors are all equally qualified to make all of these products.

The pair set a punishing rhythm that their rivals could never match.

Not surprisingly, Microsoft s competitors cheered the Commission throughout the entire investigation and appeal.

These companies will then find themselves making more payments for premature deaths relative to their competitors.

Frankfurt and Paris, the most plausible European competitors, languish in tenth and 26th place, respectively.

Other alternatives attempt to avoid the overhead of X by working directly with the hardware such projects include DirectFB.

They will invest resources in training employees whom their competitors will exclude from the initial pool of recruits.

But challengers like China and India are in no position to preach.

Year after year, after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition.

Firms are discovering that their competitors with business method patents may seek to block them from improving their business strategies.

Fighting climate change does depend on all countries having confidence that their competitors will follow suit.

And while competitors are striving to find a way out of the difficult situation, Sony continues to focus on the consumer segment.

Eluka Kibona, who works on the show in Tanzania, says the competitors have to use their own own local knowledge.

Symantec exited this business in the late 1990s as competitors such as Metrowerks, Microsoft, and Borland gained significant market share.

Rather than preventing monopolization and restraint of trade, as the theory goes, antitrust regulation in the new economy is a new face of the old industrial policy, allowing bureaucrats to manipulate economic outcomes and favor companies dearer to them than the consumers choice. The only beneficiaries of government officials telling Microsoft how to make computer software are Microsoft s competitors and not competition.

But if Japan starts to intervene directly in global currency markets to ensure a weaker yen, neighboring competitors will respond in kind.

Center left parties face a particularly difficult challenge, as their lower income electoral base is lured away by anti immigration, chauvinist competitors.

If their competitors deliberately overload them by posting a few thousand comments a day, they will not be able to afford the cost .

Fearful of competitors stealing their ideas, and still without a patent, they flew on only one more day after October 5.

It is the less efficient competitors, and not consumers, that are the most likely to benefit from punishing Intel for lowering its prices.

Such a high valuation can be justified if SKS provides a better service than the competition, but darker interpretations are possible.

1) Economic motives, meaning that the misinformation campaign was ordered by competitors (other banks). 2) Political motives (destabilization), meaning that the culprits would be competing political forces.

The main competitors to PE are ELF (used in Linux and most other versions of Unix) and Mach O (used in Mac OS X).

It produces one of the finest airplanes in the world so good that competitors in the more advanced industrial countries have tried to impose trade barriers.

How do Primark and its competitors in the West s shopping malls and High Streets keep that cute frock so cheap?

Some companies have easier access to capital, whereas their competitors cannot get access to finance at reasonable interest rates.

The direct competitors, two Opel Astra H GTC driven by drivers selected from 18,000 hopefuls in a year long TV covered process, were beaten decisively.

Fortunately, a wary press corps, powerful governments, and nervous competitors watch its every move, hoping the company to fight its many temptations.

APEC members, too, should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration before new rivalries emerge to thwart their efforts.

In contrast to aid, greater access to the developed world s markets creates incentives and fosters institutions in the developing world that are self sustaining, collectively policed, and more consequential for human welfare. Many countries are prevented from trading their way out of poverty by the high tariff barriers, domestic subsidies, and other protections enjoyed by their rich country competitors.

Many countries are prevented from trading their way out of poverty by the high tariff barriers, domestic subsidies, and other protections enjoyed by their rich country competitors.

As competitors circle ever closer and new technology challenges cosy old certainties, the imminent negotiation of the licence fee is fraught with especial danger for the BBC.

The only question now is whether Zubkov, or his successor, will eventually succeed in turning Czar Vladimir into the same sort of non person that Putin s rivals have become.

The key to the competitiveness of Saudi Arabia's petrochemical industry was its use of natural gas and ethane, which was far less expensive than the oil product naphtha on which its global competitors depended.

Indeed, the growth dynamic can be so strong for some successful cities that they can hollow out smaller rivals (for example, London vis à vis the cities of northern England).