But competition from ICP with its BP system, regardless of its inferior technology, continues to grow at a steady rate.
Naturally this was perceived as competition to ICP because it is also a computer company, which quickly brought to market its own all-in-one computer.
Even such a tax was less intolerable than the privilege of monopolies, which checked the fair competition of industry, and, for the sake of a small and dishonest gain, imposed an arbitrary burden on the wants and luxury of the subject.
Influential incapacity prevailed over knowledge and ability, and the men intrusted with the direction of the company's operations proved themselves inexperienced and quite unfit to cope with unshackled competition from the outer world.
All thoughts of competition and watchfulness had now vanished.
It was the thought, that competitionwould be more likely to cause exertion than a partnership, and that the success of all would better repay them for their toils and risks, should each vessel act exclusively for itself.
Our young master could not but be flattered at this, which came at a favourable moment to sustain the resolutions awakened by the competition with the rival schooner.
Roswell, with hearty good-will, forgetting, in that moment of generous effort, all feelings of competition and rivalry.
Had the competitionand spirit of rivalry been at a lower point among our adventurers than it actually was, greater caution might have been observed.
A lanky man with a gray beard, neatly trimmed, and with the most refined manners in our group, said something about competition in the abstract.
The ostensible meaning of it all was that the competition in which they were engaged was a "mere matter of business," of civilized rivalry; that it was not supposed to interfere with their friendship and mutual sense of fair play.
In proportion as we grew we adapted American business ways Speaking in a semi-amicable vein, Loeb went on citing cases of what he termed cutthroat competition on our part, till he worked himself into a passion and became abusive again.
A still further development, leading to competition with the omnibuses, was brought about by the re-introduction of the tramway, for the purposes of street transport.
Theoretically there was competition between the rivers and the canal; but the agents of both extorted from the traders the highest possible charges for a most inefficient service.
By 1836 it was evident that coaching had reached the climax of its popularity, and could not hope to maintain its position against the competition of the railways which were spreading so rapidly throughout the land.
As the old military despotisms cannot compete with it in wealth and enlightenment, so it attempts no competition with them in standing armies and the arts of war.
It is probable that, in a country where business pursuits and keen competition are carried to such an unheard-of extent, all classes feel the need of rest on the seventh day, and regard the Sabbath as a physical necessity.
There was competition further afield and in such outwardly respectable chapels as that of Mayfair, built in 1736, to meet the needs of a growing neighbourhood.
First one man dropped, then another; then one of the lieutenants threw up his hands and fell forward, shot through the heart in the act of kicking a man who was having a little private nigger-shooting competition with his corporal.
The short and the long of it is that competition enhances and increases efficiency and that, therefore, anything that restricts competition, weakens and lessens efficiency.
The monopolists of knowledge and intellectual products cannot allow competition anywhere in the world - because theirs is a world market.
A pirate in Skopje is in direct competition with Bill Gates.
This solution was sometimes adopted by the nationalistcompetition itself.
Competition is a value derided in most parts of the world.
I knew, too, I bore no competitionwith my sisters; but I never dreamt of competition.
Charity is therefore called the royal law; and though it had a superintendency over other laws, and, doubtless, is a law to which other laws must give place when they come in competition with it.
There was more competition to begin with, and he had rivals and enemies.
Competition was too fierce--it was a matter of making a living on their part--every man was for himself, in a certain sense.
It is well known that when a greater pain or stimulus is thrown into competition with a lesser one, the lesser is submerged.
It is well known that when a greater pain is thrown into competition with a lesser one, the lesser is completely submerged.
Saint Mary's culture is not in competitionwith a brass band in blue uniform, but aims at the highest orchestral and surpliced effects.
That this would be in competitionto a book which they were going to promote--I believe the AP.
Our London electricity is both expensive and poor; consumers are at the mercy of the companies, and a little wholesome competition is very imperative.
Even so, however, there are perhaps few instances in theatrical history in which so unequal a competition was so long sustained.
Theatres very soon multiplied, competition grew ever keener, and the long run, with its accompaniments of ostentatious decoration and lavish advertisement, became the one object of managerial effort.
Gellert and others, together with the vigorous popular comedies of the Danish dramatist Holberg, were brought into competition with translations from the French.
I have made up my mind to withdraw from the competition which was set to all the school-girls who came to this house, but which was especially intended to be a competition between you and me.
It was open to thecompetition of all her form, and she out of the eight girls came first in the list.
This conjuror," says he, "who is afraid of a child's competition and preaches to his tutor is the sort of person we meet with in the world in which Emile and such as he are living.
It comes to this," he said dejectedly, "that I am out of work and competition is so desperate.
Inflamed by avarice and the childish ease of identifying the battles in the first series, you bought the next week's number, and the next, until the competition closed, and you found that the designs were increasingly baffling.
The old intense competition of nation with nation for trade to the exclusion of other nations from the markets of the world will return with its attendant inefficiency.
The cup has been offered annually by Mr. James Gordon-Bennet for international competition under such conditions as may be prescribed by the International Aeronautic Federation.
The most powerful economic reason was inability to earn a satisfactory living in the fatherland, because worn-out soils, low prices for produce, overcrowding of population, and excessive competition among workmen resulted in starvation wages.
