It is becoming difficult for a single firm to muster all the resources required to be innovative and competitive in the global markets, and firms are therefore aligning themselves with others, including competitors, with complementary capabilities or resources.

So we were kind of skeptical that maybe it was a competing oil firm just sort of playing the issue up.

There's nothing that distinguishes them structurally from any of their competitors.

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

Rival?

He was hired away by a rival company.

Who's my rival?

Article 48 The Company shall make detailed analysis on the general situation of the competition pattern in the industry as well as its position, its competitive advantage and disadvantage.

The adoption of an adequate legal framework for competition not only helped avoid anti competitive practices by firms but also created healthy and fair conditions for all of them.

Table 5. Impact of OFDI on the competitive advantages of SINTNCs

And that's unlike many of our competitors.

or he works for some rival outfit.

There has never been a company that doesn't have competition.

Most informers are rivals using slander for revenge.

the newspaper that ran that story... happens to be a rival of my father's paper.

Article 7 Insurance companies shall observe the principle of fair competition when conducting insurance business and shall never engage in unfair competition.

They are the toughest opponents.

You have no rival.

I was beginning to worry about the competition.

7. At the global level, globalization has given rise to the emergence of new forms of cooperation competition among firms, which create new challenges for competition policy.

As developing country firms become more competitive through OFDI, they can contribute to the competitiveness of their home countries by increasing national productive capacity and productivity.

We have been asked to open up our economies to competition from wealthier international companies with which our domestic companies have a hard time competing.

Both Ispat and Cemex enhanced their competitiveness through internationalization.

It's just that the competition seems to be catching up.

This may ultimately lead to exclusion of existing competitors from competition in the two liquor markets.

As normal commercial companies, cooperatives in Germany compete with other commercial companies.

The Korean competition agency fined the three firms a total of KRW 120,000,000,000 (EUR 96,000,000).

These contracts were won in the face of fierce competition, and the companies concerned have demonstrated that they are capable of competing with well established European space concerns.

The puppet reaching to a rival who pretends to ignore it.

I wouldn't advise you to become my rival.

That cake had to be from one of the losing bidders.

Handbook on Competition Legislation

It is however a commercially competitive energy carrier, with oil being its main competitor.

In addition, other Empretecos were recognized as colleagues within the EMPRETEC family, rather than as competitors.

The race for national competitiveness is every bit as fierce as the competition among companies in the marketplace. Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.

Took a lot of finagling... to get him away from our competitors.

Competitors fight in every way they know to bring that man down.

Cycling breeds camaraderie, and the only competition is with the terrain, which is to say ourselves.

Now I'm her competitor for the audience.

The state should therefore be able to regulate markets, as well as technological and financial competition, and create a domestic environment designed to enhance the competitiveness of local enterprises vis à vis transnational companies.

Some two thirds of SINTNCs in the survey agreed that OFDI had increased their companies' competitive advantages.

Similarly, firms in a given country could keep FDI out by acquiring essential inputs and making it impossible for new competitors to enter production.

Come on, I want you to meet your competition.

You know, of all our competitors, Dirt magazine is the...

She hasn't had much competition from the rest of you fillies.