Sentences with phrase «in a national competition in»

Dr. Grego will represent Florida in a national competition in Nashville, Tennessee in February.

Not exact matches

Two of the oldest names in Perth's advertising industry have disappeared as increasing competition from national firms puts pressure on local players.

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

Kepler's Books, now a member of Peninsula Shops, had abruptly closed its doors in 2005 because of competition from national chains and sites like Amazon.com.

The competition is so desperate for the same cachet that in August, Bose brokered a deal to become the official headphone of the National Football League, an agreement that blocks NFL stars (including Beats endorsers Richard Sherman and Colin Kaepernick) from wearing Beats products during post-game interviews and league - affiliated events.

Putin's appeal to nuclear might as a tool of persuasion and national power in 2018 represents a bygone era of Cold War competition, and doesn't really change anything.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Luc Bertrand, vice-president of National Bank of Canada, one of Maple's backers, downplayed competition concerns in a conference call with media, adding the combined resources of the venture will allow the TMX to compete on an international level and recapture lost trading volume.

Local tech entrepreneurs have pitched their ideas to representatives from the Big Pitch competition in Leederville today, with the pick of the crop to go into the national finals with a chance to win $ 5 million to fund their idea.

GoldieBox, a toy company on a mission to get girls excited about engineering, won a national competition sponsored by Intuit and will be featured in a 30 - second commercial during the Super Bowl.

Traditionally, Sunderland is the first place to declare in national elections, but it is facing competition from Newcastle upon Tyne, just 15 miles down the road.

THE National Competition Council this week released a comprehensive stocktake of reforms undertaken by various State governments, as part of their yearly review of progress by States in implementing reform under the Hilmer competition polCompetition Council this week released a comprehensive stocktake of reforms undertaken by various State governments, as part of their yearly review of progress by States in implementing reform under the Hilmer competition polcompetition policy agenda.

In 2007, Pizza Hut began the industry's social media competition that now spans Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, as the first national pizza company to launch a Facebook page.

Fluent in English (she won third place in a national speech competition), the China - born investment banker wanted to study overseas, but her parents would only let her go as far as Japan, where all she could say was hello and goodbye.

How you conduct yourself offstage carries just as much weight, according to Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founder of Evanston, Ill. - based NuMat Technologies, a clean - energy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.

Meanwhile, Toronto's Porter Airlines wants to boost competition even more by adding a slew of new jets and destinations in 2016, expanding from a regional player to a national one.

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He also currently owns BAISA, which operates Club Bolivar, Bolivia's most popular and successful soccer team in national and international competition.

The annual event pits candidates against one another to earn a chance to compete in a national competition held at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will next week hold public hearings in Perth and Albany as part of its national inquiry to determine whether there is a need for retail price control arrangements to continue to apply to Telstra after Ju

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

At the national level, employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition, as expected, but offsetting employment gains in other industries have yet to materialize.

Keeping a carrier close to Russian strategic interests also tracks closely with the Defense Department's recently released National Defense Strategy that declared that «inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national securityNational Defense Strategy that declared that «inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national securitynational security.»

In the fine jewelry market, LKG Designs Inc will face competition from national jewelry store chains and small jewelry stores, home shopping channels, department stores, discount chain stores, and the internet.

The national security strategy suggests that Trump may be returning to his basic assumptions about great power competition, putting China back in the spotlight.

Moldaver is also involved in the legal community, volunteering as a guest judge on final panels for national law school moot competitions.

Mr. Draghi, 58, is a vocal advocate of tearing down remaining national barriers to competition in the European Union's single market.

«They are in competition with us over economic prosperity and national defense,» Navarro said on NBC's «Meet the Press.»

Student Startup Madness (SSM) is a nationwide tournament - style competition for college student digital media startups, culminating with the «Entrepreneurial Eight» national finals at South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in March.

uTranslated took second place in China's Chunhui Cup, a national startup competition, and was recognized with the Award of Excellence in the competition.

Readers have pointed out that Johannes Hirn made Tsarnaev the subject of a photo essay, «Will Box for Passport,» taken before the boxer competed at National Golden Gloves competition in Salt Lake City.

And while Otezla's competition may have a leg up in the efficacy department — England's cost watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, last month declared that Celgene's product was «a less effective treatment» than existing rivals — it has its own distinguishing feature.

Houses were built for the competition, the most famous being Ray and Charles Eames» Case Study House 8 in Los Angeles, which is now a National Historic Landmark.

«Further, given the relatively higher cost of capital in Australia and the global competition for a seemingly scarce pool of quality national assets, IAG may struggle to compete in any case.»

«As our national defense strategy makes clear, we are now in an era of great power competition.

The Cleantech UP National Competition is the culmination of a series of eight Cleantech UP Collegiate Competitions, in which students received entrepreneurial training and mentoring, and competed for cash prizes to further their technologies and startups.

Instead of bowing out under pressure from national competition, local food delivery services in smaller markets across the U.S. are seeing sales lifts and renewed restaurant partnerships as Grubhub and Uber Eats show up on their scene.

The National Association for Business Resources has over 20 years of experience conducting Best and Brightest Company competitions and has identified numerous best Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

That beer will be submitted in the Pro-Am category of a national competition.

A decision by the Trump administration to use national security to protect an industry would be among the most dramatic — and risky — moves in the president's trade agenda, which seeks to limit what he regards as unfair foreign competition.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

The FCC said it will consider the National Broadband Plan's recommendations on ways to remove barriers to infrastructure investment and promote competition in the telecommunications markets.

A 17 - year - old California girl won $ 100,000 in a national science competition for her creation of a nanoparticle that can target and kill cancer cells.

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The Jewish organization alleges religious discrimination and unfair business competition, on the basis of several California statutes, including the state's civil rights act, which prohibits the refusal to engage in a business transaction on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin or sex.

While not denying the impetus that abundance gives to the spirit of competition, I think it is more enlightening in this context to stress the similarity of focus in both the religious and the secular versions of America's national character.

Certainly it is a fact that the relation between classes is one of violent competition for positions of power in the nation, for «a bigger slice of the cake» — that is, of the national revenue.

There are two principal types of socialism: «full socialism» in which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism», in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as free enterprise capitalism.

Delegates to the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August had the novel experience of seeing their sessions covered in the Malaysian media with the intensity that normally attends national elections or the latest developments in the «Malaysian Idol» competition.