Sentences with word «uncompetitive»

Heathrow was also becoming increasingly uncompetitive in relation to other major European airports; although it handled more passengers per year than any other European airport, it had less runway capacity than competing major European hub airports.

As the prices become uncompetitive with load based wind and solar, consumers will opt for their own solar / battery systems and become producers.

This is already happening by default in Latin America and elsewhere: in Vietnam, forest area has been increasing since the 1990s after small - scale, unproductive agriculture was made uncompetitive by more intensive, larger - scale farming in the more open market economy.

Today's below - average cars aren't as uncompetitive as they used to be: They tend to do the job without being exceptionally chintzy — or unreliable.

(For why base load becomes uncompetitive in renewable - rich grids like South Australia's wind - dominated grid, see CSP to be Essential by 2050... for Germany?)

A big fall in Australia's wheat production this year is expected to exacerbate problems caused by uncompetitive pricing and the growing acceptance of Black Sea wheat in south - east Asia.

But take a look at each country: The vast swathes of uncompetitive industry, the high levels of personal and public debt, the abysmal fiscal / debt situations at the state level (I mean the US as much as Europe), the aging populations and their looming entitlements and, of course, their idiot politicians... Wake up — Europe is America, and America is Europe... and they're both turning Japanese!

«It is the Government's own policies which have resulted in excessive and increasing teacher workloads, dwindling pay, starting salaries which are increasingly uncompetitive with other graduate professions and the relentless pressure of the high - stakes accountability regime.

With driver line - up at all the top teams in F1 looking pretty stable, Robert Kubica entering the frame at Renault and other teams being too uncompetitive for Alonso's ambitions, staying at McLaren in 2018 is probably going to be his only choice.

More likely, investigators will find a happily uncompetitive industry in which no formal coordination is necessary.

They're often high growth operations in uncompetitive markets and, while they can be risky plays, these companies are the ones that can add that extra kick to a portfolio.

«If we have uncompetitive tax rates compared to our regional trading partners then investment will flow to those countries and not Australia.

«Exelon is asking the legislature to change the rules of the competitive market in a way that would bail out its economically uncompetitive nuclear plants,» Learner said.

So how can VW look so uncompetitive from a productivity standpoint, yet be so profitable?

Fernando certainly knows a thing or two about racing uncompetitive cars and after testing at Daytona, he's realising that he could be about to spend 24 hours racing another one.

These come in many forms, such as direct subsidies to uneconomical coal mines, capacity mechanisms for Member States are allowed to provide closure aid until 2018, to cover the current production losses in the context of the definitive closure of uncompetitive coal mines.

Hasty protectionism of uncompetitive businesses can have a magnified impact on other companies.

Ericsson is going into his fourth year with Sauber and has had to keep his head above the water in some very uncompetitive machinery.

Among the challenges concerning postdoctoral and other contract research staff noted were: Uncertain career prospects associated with work on a short - term contractual basis, unsatisfactory training in the skills required in an academic career, and increasingly uncompetitive salaries.

But mainly, it's a modest, uncompetitive race for five slots.

That left Delta uncompetitive on routes also served by 5 - Star Airlines like Singapore Airlines, Asiana or ANA and I'd never spend my money to fly Delta again!

Yet due to each vehicle's poor interior quality and questionable styling, both models remain uncompetitive in their class.

Yet later in the report they dismiss such efforts, such as advancing biofuels to replace the nation's reliance on imported fossil fuels, as «either protectionist or attempts to deploy uncompetitive technologies.»

These changes highlight the dramatic declines in storage costs and reveal just how uncompetitive coal has become.

I mean, select the most successful teams in relatively uncompetitive leagues, have a 3 year plan max so you don't have to worry about what you leave behind and spend what you want — you have to say the odds are stacked in your favour.

Sure, you could have use Emirates» own Skywards program but they have uncompetitive rates and massive surcharges.

But while they may battle it out on the field, interns are shockingly uncompetitive at work, according to Wicki, who loved the community aspect of her experience.

Politicians representing states and districts where such companies are important employers said they feared that the tax would make American products uncompetitive in international markets.

But chief executive Darren De Bortoli said the biggest threat to his business - as well as other winemakers - was not the rising dollar, which was making exports uncompetitive, nor the power of the two leading supermarket chains, but the «rorting» of the WET tax rebate by small uneconomic growers who are flooding the market with cheap loss - making wine.

It looks like we're all set for another long and frustrating season for McLaren and Honda... Let's see what Alonso and Vandoorne can do in Bahrain though, if they can finish the race, because the MCL32 hasn't been too uncompetitive in race trim.

The common theme among many reviewers is that the Mustang's light weight, manageable size, and obsessive detailing are enough to overlook the relatively uncompetitive engine choices.

Swelling global grain production pushed wheat prices to decade lows this year and left many east coast growers uncompetitive against Russian and Ukraine producers, who benefited from more efficient supply chains and lower freight costs.

Other large competitive wholesale markets have lately been consumed by controversy — particularly in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast where state actions to subsidize uncompetitive nuclear capacity in the wholesale markets threaten the viability of the RTO / ISO concept (see sidebar).

It never possessed any enthusiast appeal, but it was also flawed from a consumer perspective with its subpar interior and uncompetitive fuel economy.

On the one hand, economical crisis is a very good cleaner from weak and uncompetitive companies, which leaves on the market only strong players, but, on the other hand, crisis can leave without job thousands of industrious and devoted to their business workers.

The group says the proposed rules «will not result in environmental protection», but will instead «set an unreasonable bar» for drillers, and make New York uncompetitive with other states.

Just as development wrapped up on the 190E 2.3, the four - wheel - drive turbocharged sledgehammer that was the Audi Quattro smashed onto the rally scene, rendering the naturally aspirated, rear - wheel - drive Mercedes nearly uncompetitive before it even made its first dirt trail debut.

It could do it, for example, by selling its assets, by deregulating and liberalizing its economy to revive totally uncompetitive exports (Greece is the least competitive economy in the Eurozone), or by reforming its pension system, which costs 17.5 % of the GDP, while the average pension expenditures in the Eurozone amount to the 13.8 % of the GDP.

«At the same time, Fonterra in New Zealand has continued to invest in new and improved processing plant and technology which now leaves Australian companies with comparatively uncompetitive processing costs on large scale commodity products.»

The relatively high cost of securing hydrogen — usually by stripping it from natural gas — has made it historically uncompetitive with other energy sources in most situations, however.

Unless you are in a completely uncompetitive search market, 3 links and a few articles from one website won't make a dent in your ranking equation.

While it is possible to trade some stocks and commodities in the after hour electronic session, the liquidity is often very low and this makes prices extremely uncompetitive.

So, 12 - years on, we're in much the same spot as when Labor lost to Mr Court — uncompetitive gas and electricity markets and much hot air from monopoly supporting politicians, like we endured during «hot Wednesday».

It will cost jobs and it will not, ultimately, save uncompetitive US steel firms.

By and large, those jobs didn't migrate across the Pacific, but instead crossed the border south to the US, as the loonie's soaring value made Canadian labour costs uncompetitive.

Compared to the diesels, the 1.6 - litre T - GDi turbo petrol looks uncompetitive with CO2 emissions figures of over 170g / km.

But by far the most obsolescent and uncompetitive engine family is the GM Family 1 with sizes ranging from 1.6 - 2.0 liters.

The Bank of Canada routinely describes exporters as generally uncompetitive, so a weaker exchange rate acts as a crutch.