The associations zealously compete with each other for pre-eminence, only it is a friendly rivalry and not a competitive struggle for bread.
Want and material care are--with very rare exceptions--no natural stimulants to fight in the competitive struggle for existence.
He was, I believe, at the time of his sentence, one of the regular examiners at the competitive examinations of young men seeking for employment in the Civil Service of the Empire.
In this country Her Majesty's Consuls are not only commercial agents, but are trained diplomatists, entering the service in the first instance as cadets, after passing most difficult competitive examinations.
They have a competitive system there, which is undoubtedly the oldest in the world.
In 1867 the Grand Trunk and the Great Western agreed to maintain rates, pool certain traffic receipts, refrain from competitive building, and co-operate in service.
The Northern Pacific was brought in by the Manitoba government, and competitive local roads were chartered, but in this period the control of the Canadian Pacific over the western field was not seriously called in question.
But a success in competitive scholarship, like a success in competitive athletics, may, of course, be too dearly bought.
As to competitive scholarship, to my mind it is like competitive athletics,--good for those who have the powers and like the game.
I do not know why both those sisters were more vulgarly competitive with each other than with any one else; I have merely to record the fact that they were so.
Brother and sister were both sketching out the state of affairs at Buryhamstreet Vicarage in rapid competitive jerks, each eager to tell things first--and the whole party moved confusedly towards the station exit.
The system of competitive commercialism, of large-scale capitalist industry in its final flowering!
The reader may think that such sophistications are now out of date; but he will find precisely the same knavery in the efforts of present-day Slavers to fit Jesus Christ into the system of competitive commercialism.
I blame the prophets and priests and healers for their fall from idealism; but I blame still more the competitive wage-system, which presents them with the alternative to swindle or to starve.
Rather, they are comparatively spineless misfits in a closely competitive social scheme.
Now superior efficiency is clearly present whenever the monopolistic concern obtains surplus gains by selling its product at competitive prices, or at the prices that would have prevailed under competition.
Monopolistic corporations have as good a right, generally speaking, to profit by the "unearned increment" of land as competitive concerns.
The great majority of business men incompetitive industries do not receive incomes in excess of their reasonable needs.
Inasmuch as the risks are smaller than in competitive enterprises, six per cent.
The exception alluded to above occurs when the monopoly uses the excess which it obtains over the competitive price to pay fair wages to those labourers who were insufficiently compensated in competitive conditions.
The business man in competitive conditions has a right to all the profits that he can obtain, but corporations possessing a monopoly have no right to unusual gains except those due to unusual efficiency.
By interest we mean, of course, the prevailing or competitive rate that is received on productive capital--five or six per cent.
Others hoped to restore a competitive basis by law.
Neither he nor Root had won a leadership in competitivepolitics as had the third candidate, Charles E.
Once or twice after that he had competitive buyers in Squitty Cove and the various rendezvous of the trolling fleet.
He had jumped prices before there was any competitive spur.
The method of election by competitive performance--common as it is, among poor Dissenters--emphasises the subjection of the shepherd to his flock.
But what if the mechanism of competitive society works so that thousands don't get even the plainest living?
Christian morality, however, was not preached to free competitive society, but to slave society, where it is neither very difficult nor unnatural to practice it.
The competitive system (so injurious to the laboring class) is carried out with less exception or restriction in America than in Europe.
But we have been looking merely to one side of human nature, and to that side rendered darker by the false, antagonistic and competitive relations in which so-called liberty and equality place man.
The ordinary relations of men are not competitive and antagonistic as in free society; and selfishness is not general, but exceptionable.
As a result, the first general competitive federal coal lease sale in ten years will be held this month.
United States continues to have a strong competitive edge.
MBDA has already proven to be a major factor in assisting minority businesses to achieve equitable competitive positions in the marketplace.
Because this sector of the economy is the very lifeblood of our National economy, we have done much together to improve the competitive climate for smaller firms.
Everything competitive had seemed to fade away with the receding shore, and to loom up again only when the skyline became a thing of smoke-banks, spires, and shafts.
The European way would have been to buildcompetitive fleets, dock-yards, and fortresses, all of which would have helped to bring on war during the periods of mutual exasperation which have occurred since 1817.
A great place in history can only be achieved by competitive examinations, nay, by a long course of them.
Ordinary Stock: and for twenty years no competitive Railway to be sanctioned;--summarize the liberality of the Dominion of Canada, in her efforts to bind together her Ocean coasts.
Pacific line itself, but to complete other extensions of the Pacific Company's system of a directly competitive character with the Grand Trunk, and which could never have been finished but for this British money, so raised.
The Condition of the Poor But the main object of all our endeavors must be to raise the standard of life of our poorer fellow-citizens, now crushed by the competitive struggle.
One of the interesting features of the plan is the proposal to do as much of the work as possible by direct labor rather than by competitive bidding.
To abolish private productive capital by making it public, to establish a communistic instead of a competitive society, that is the object.
In the old days there were hundreds of different competitive firms with their buildings and offices in the Ilyinka, the Varvarka, and the Nikolskaya.
Formerly, an infinite variety of slightly different stuffs were produced, the variations being often merely for the sake of being different in the competitive trade.
The whole of that mass of struggling competitive units of direction had now been concentrated in the house in which we were talking.
In this respect they differ from the labor of the soil which, while hardening and muscle-making, is inspiriting from lack of competitive prowess with a goal in sight to work for.
They have aroused no jealousies, no heart-burnings through competitive ambitions--they go where sent.
Not that I doubt a long course of "competitive highness" will ultimately make the organisation higher in every sense of the word; but it seems most difficult to test it.
I should be sorry to give up the view that an old and very large continuous territory would generally produce organisms higher in the competitive sense than a smaller territory.
I do not see how this "competitive highness" can be tested in any way by us.
But what men like is not the triumph of superiors, but the struggle of equals; and, therefore, they introduce even into their competitive sports an artificial equality.
But she cannot be expected to endure anything like this universal duty if she is also to endure the direct cruelty of competitive or bureaucratic toil.
I do not deny that women have been wronged and even tortured; but I doubt if they were ever tortured so much as they are tortured now by the absurd modern attempt to make them domestic empresses and competitive clerks at the same time.
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