Sentences with phrase «threatened by competition»

The San Joaquin kit fox is threatened by competition from the red fox and habitat loss.

Threatened by competition from the Nook and the iPad will hopefully push Amazon to make changes suggested by users and experts to the Kindle, such as price cuts and faster screen reaction times.

Today, businesses are threatened by competition, technological disruption and other forces that require a more adaptable and fearless mindset.

Not exact matches

The pump has long been the most profitable item in SRC's product line, he is saying, but now it is threatened by aggressive domestic competition and cheap foreign imports.

Rollei was seriously threatened by stiff Japanese competition and a labor shortage at home that made production costly.

Small Busines Minister, Bruce Billson, has again rejected claims by the BCA that the proposed s 46 effects test would threaten competition.

Although plans to close the plant are purely financial, largely spurred by competition from cheap natural gas, and will save the company $ 250 million in the next five years, Cuomo has threatened legal action against Entergy.

But the teachers union, threatened by charters that outperform traditional, union - run schools, thinks it can squash the competition by depriving it of real estate.

Financial constraints and rising foreign competition contribute to a general forecast that looks mixed at best and threatening at worst; those are the conclusions of a pair of reports recently released by the National Academies.

Conservationists worry, for example, that escaped transgenic fish could threaten wild stocks by increasing competition for food (Science, 13 September 2002).

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

We've worked in many cases with our suppliers for a very long time, so there's mutual confidence and trust between us, so we don't feel threatened by more competition.

And of course, that fall trifecta constitutes a competition unto itself, one that threatened to turn nasty three years ago when Toronto, irked by Telluride's early access to some of the season's most coveted films, sought to impose a penalty of sorts by restricting all Telluride - screened titles from screening the first weekend of TIFF.

Resuming my film - by - film look at the docs of Sundance 2014: Jesse Moss» US Documentary Competition title THE OVERNIGHTERS, in which a smalltown pastor's desire to help the unfortunate threatens to turn his congregation against him.

Public agencies usually have no competition and are not threatened by loss of business if their costs go up, while unions know they are not putting jobs at risk by pressuring for all they can get.

More tellingly, in an era of labor mobility and global competition, our national economic well - being is threatened by the weakness of many state education systems.

The smaller gains achieved by always - D and sometimes - D schools compared with the performance of voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools, despite the similar characteristics of all these schools, strengthen our confidence that voucher competition is the cause of the improvements.

Any deal that threatens their survival on the high street still further should receive proper scrutiny by the government and competition authorities.»

Originally Posted by j Robert Hanson It's always good to know that the competition is threatened enough to run ads against your branding strategies.

Such impacts would also likely affect the Key Largo cotton mouse [28 — 29], Key Largo woodrat [30 — 31], and silver rice rat [32 — 33], all of which USFWS identifies as species of particular concern, and which are threatened — either through predation or competition — by non-native rats such as the black rat.

Unlike the many products that are threatened by low - price competition on the Internet, pond filtration systems have a degree of value - added pricing.

The «Beyond Coal» campaign threatens the survival of an energy - producing industry beset by Environmental Protection Agency regulations and increased competition from wind and natural gas.

A New England songbird species known as Bicknell's Thrush is threatened by both climate change and competition.

«Drillers fear that federal protections for more threatened and endangered animals could drive up their costs at a time when the industry is already battered by low oil prices, growing competition from renewable energy, and increasing attention from investors and regulators over the climate - altering impacts of fossil fuels,» DeSmog's Sharon Kelly wrote.

However, by preventing nursing homes from expanding the number of available beds, the law also threatens to decrease competition in the industry because there will be no incentive to fill all the beds.

Some of the shareholders threatened to withdraw their capital, to form a new enterprise in competition, even to make common cause with a French company projected by Henry IV.

CONFLICT BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND EC LAW As seen in previous monthly rants, the ECJ has handed down judgments in industrial action cases giving strong preference to basic rules of EC law where they are threatened by action taken by trade unions to protect wage rates in higher - wage economies from competition from organisations from lower - wage economies using their own national labour.

A new fight threatens to break out between the country's real estate agents and the Competition Bureau, this time over the way the industry handles the treasure trove of data generated by each sale on its Multiple Listing Service.

With respect to the concerns expressed by some commenters about the competitive consequences of applying the zero percent tolerance category to affiliate fees and fees paid to lender - required service providers, the Bureau does not believe that this final rule will threaten competition by pushing small, independent settlement service providers out of business.