Try to keep up with Tom.

I'll try to keep up with Tom.

Did you have any trouble keeping up with the others?

And, more deplorably, educational standards lagged.

We read newspapers so that we may not fall behind the times.

My hosts replied that they needed to keep up with China.

Doctors should keep abreast with all the latest developments in medicine.

I have to study hard to keep up with the other students.

I have to study hard to keep up with the other students.

I have to study hard to keep up with the other students.

During the last quarter century, global economic growth has soared, but Africa continued to lose ground.

These new regulations will ensure that European companies will be left trailing far behind their international competitors.

Worse, service industries are falling further behind large manufacturers in terms of productivity and wages.

'Mind, master! Having put your hand to the plough, don't look back!' And Levin heard the sound of repressed laughter among the mowers.

However, the Washington area may lag behind as the slowdown in federal spending takes its toll on the region's labor market.

It is said that, unless developing and postcommunist countries catch up with the computer revolution , their economies will fall ever farther behind.

He preferred to help steer Europe toward monetary and political union, just when its economy had begun to fall behind the rest of the world.

The next swaths were easier, but still Levin had to work with all his might to keep even with the peasants.

If Europe wants to work less, it must be extraordinarily productive when it does work if it is to keep up with the hard working Americans.

And there were 20 of them that I had that I was responsible for, and I worked on the farm and tried to keep up with my studies.

Poland worries that the more Ukraine is shut off from the Union, the more it will fall behind, economically and politically.

Likewise, regular SDR emissions to keep pace with the growth of global liquidity could yield roughly 100 billion annually for international development cooperation.

Nonetheless, the speed and degree of change have caught the authorities off guard, and have stoked official fears that growth will fall short of the rate needed for the country to modernize as planned.

As long as today s activists and regulators remain convinced that GMOs represent a distinct and dangerous category of research and products, genetic engineering will fall short of its potential.

When investment banking markets were booming and the private sector easily recruited up top talent regulators and supervisors found it difficult to get the budgets to keep up with innovation and police the markets.

India s agriculture sector, for example, has fallen behind the rest of its dynamic economy, living on borrowed time, as levels of ground water, on which much of the country depends, fall precipitously.

Levin followed, trying not to lag behind, but it became harder and harder until at last the moment came when he felt he had no strength left, and then Titus again stopped and began whetting his scythe.

Nevertheless, I suspect that the age of American exceptionalism is near an end, and soon per capita income in Europe and Japan will approach that of the US, rather than falling farther behind.

The eurozone s protracted crisis, which began in 2008, has exacerbated this trend, with member countries still struggling to restore economic and financial stability and likely to continue to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of GDP growth.

Unless it modernizes its economy and society, Russia can forget its claim to status as a world power in the twenty first century and will continue to fall behind both old and newly emerging powers. Moreover, Russia needs partners for its modernization, because its population and economic potential are too small for it to play an important role by itself in the emerging new world order.

Unless it modernizes its economy and society, Russia can forget its claim to status as a world power in the twenty first century and will continue to fall behind both old and newly emerging powers.

On average, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spend less than 2 of their GDP on infrastructure, while 3 to 6 is needed to sustain rapid growth and keep pace with countries like China or Korea.