Sentences with phrase «of little competition»

These are things I've found myself saying a lot in recent months, especially in the wake of the little competition set up by agents to poke fun at writers and openly share what they considered to be awful queries, publicly humiliating their potential clients.

NIH has been slow to get into the prize game, as well, but NIEHS Director Linda Birnbaum is also a fan of a little competition.

Scared of a little competition?

Not exact matches

This teamwork translates over to the office environment and brings a little bit of healthy competition into the mix.

Through the mid-1990s it had little competition in its demographic of 18 - to -24-year-old men.

For example, design competitions run by TopCoder provided businesses development work for as little as 25 percent of the cost of the traditional methods.

It's important to understand that the total feasible market is the portion of the market that can be captured provided every condition within the environment is perfect and there is very little competition.

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

«We believe in a little healthy competition, and meetings have been known to end with a friendly round of Rock Band,» Pollock writes.

The market has been positioned somewhere between awe and incredulity as new blockchain exchange - traded funds have attracted more than $ 200 million from investors in little more than a week of January, but it's a robot ETF that is blowing away the competition among trendy tech investments over the month.

«But all it takes is a couple of dedicated teachers with a little support and guidance to run important research programs that can produce winners in this competition and more importantly kids who are going to go on to become scientists and change the world.»

Today, the company's biggest challenge has little to do with the competition — it's the business of recycling itself that's the problem.

Island state has been relatively open to new services, but has little tolerance of disorderly competition.

The CMA's ruling comes amid a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about the ethics of price hikes for old off - patent medicines that are only made by a few firms and where there is little competition.

But Alberta heavy oil is sometimes fetching as little as half the world price due to the competition from U.S. - produced shale oil and a shortage of pipelines to get the crude to the coasts and other refining markets.

While open innovation helps little - known outfits get in with the Googles or Pfizers of the world, the nature of the process makes for intense competition.

Just over two years old, this ISP has reinvested most of its profits in building an infrastructure that could easily handle twice as much sales volume; with little local competition, it's also branched into profitable service enhancements, such as designing and hosting Web pages for specialized industries.

And unlike Comcast, which has little direct competition on the cable side, AT&T's wireless business is in the midst of a fierce competitive battle with the three other major wireless carriers.

Athletic competition, whether in the Olympics or the Little Leagues, is a perpetual source of perspective on the struggles of entrepreneurship.

Technology is always striving to be just that little bit better, parents are exhausted by an arms race of activities and engagement, and workers, fearing a perpetually droopy economy and the specter of competition from abroad, are bombarded with never - ending pressure to be more productive, efficient and ever connected.

Again, if you run a clothing store you also compete with online retailers, but there is relatively little you can do about that type of competition other than to work hard to compete in other ways: great service, friendly salespeople, convenient hours, truly understanding your customers, etc..

China and the U.S.» competition for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) «does seem a little like the space race of the»50s,» a leading technology venture capitalist said Wednesday.

Unless there's little competition, no increase in raw costs, no any China inputs and very little exposure to a tweet or a crack from the president of the United States.

On the occasion where you have to markup your products for less this keystone amount (such as when the competition is a little more fierce) be aware that taking this road could potentially leave you with very little at the end of the day.

In addition, you need to do a little research on your SEO competition to get a sense of their characteristics: Are they mom - and - pop shops?

Then, based on the intensity of competition for each keyword, I applied a gradient with blue being applied to those keywords with little or no competition and red being applied to those with steep competition.

Clearly the two little guys have been instrumental in driving a higher level of competition among wireless carriers with aggressive promotions, and I fully expect them to maintain that posture.

The internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long - reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news - gathering costs.

(It's worth noting that when Trump was actually in charge of deciding who would be sent home on an hour - long competition reality show, his decisions often made so little sense that producers would have to deliberately cut the episode to make it look like the loser had committed a fireable offense.)

Companies of consumer staples are able to increase their prices a little faster but competition usually limits the ability and neither sector is a good hedge against inflation.

If you ever needed proof that a little bit of competition is good for the market, just look at the mobile industry as Verizon and AT&T submit to the pressure from T - Mobile.

Understanding the balance of terms that might be a little more difficult due to competition, versus those terms that are a little more realistic, will help you maintain a similar balance that the mix of long - tail and head terms allows.

In postwar England, as a little - known architect, he had submitted his drawing for Coventry's open design competition without «the faintest hope of success.»

My conclusion, after trying a little therapy, a little Erich Fromm, a little «nothing,» is that the Christian community's competition is not bereft of difficulties.

The bakers who are a little more on the wild side & competitive can be seen in the baking competitions on Food Network, while the others are at home with a crowd of friends watching, eating oatmeal cookies.

HJ Heinz Australia has been taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which alleges the food manufacturer engaged in misleading representations on the packs of its Little Kids Shredz products.

The deal, which Murray Goulburn has said is key to its survival, was cast into doubt last month when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the takeover could leave some dairy farmers in the state of Victoria, the country's largest milk - producing region, with little choice when selling their milk.

There is, however, very little mention of competition issues - the clear focus was the ACL.

Leaving little doubt BP will challenge the regulator's outright rejection of the acquisition, Mr Holmes voiced «fundamental concerns» with the analysis behind the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's decision, which he said was surprising and disappointing.

ACCC commissioner, Roger Featherston, said that the ACCC considers that the coordination, which allows Jetstar branded airlines to operate as a single fully integrated organisation in relation to things like scheduling, sales, marketing and pricing, is likely to result in public benefits and is likely to result in «little, if any» detriment due to a lessening of competition.

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Little came of these discussions with a very modest change to the law, purporting to relate to creeping acquisitions, introduced by the Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Act 2011.

This Act changed the reference in s 50 (1) from «a market» to «any market» (purporting to remove any doubt that a merger will be prohibited if it substantially lessens competition in a market other than the market in which the merging parties compete; this had never been a problem in the past) and removing the word «substantial» from the definition of market in subsection 50 (6)(this was theoretically directed at creeping acquisitions, but has little to do with concept of creeping acquisition discussed in this report)

Competition in the Australian economy: too little of a good thing?

... there is little evidence of any weakening of price competition in grocery retailing and wholesaling has played a significant role in explaining recent increases in food price inflation.

I am a little late to participate in the competition, but I loved the Swedish way of doing hot chocolate.

A member of the Canadian Little & Large BBQ Competition Crew, he was in Lynchburg helping out Swine Fellows, another Canadian team.

Special recognition goes to our PR firm for helping to secure three of the best judges any competition could ask for and for all of the positive press - thanks for helping to shine a spotlight on little ole Nicky USA.

The conference, which attracts hundreds of BBQ experts and aspiring BBQ professionals, is a strategic combination of education, trade show, networking and promoting the art and lifestyle of BBQ, along with a little friendly competition and a lot of fun.

(Which, of course, I already know from writing a little story on judging food competitions.)