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    1. He could not, and did not really want to, compete with this lifestyle, and Tatania was very much about the lifestyle


    2. That was one area where no one could compete with Henry; he had a big heart and wasn’t afraid to show that he cared


    3. While the above advantages are bound to result in better average performance of the investments, it must be clearly understood that this can neither compete with abnormal appreciation of a few shares nor escape the effect of a bearish market when share prices are lower than their purchase price


    4. I can’t compete with a young woman … any young woman at all! Let alone one who is half pretty


    5. ‘I can’t compete … I’ve got saggy rings under my eyes, my figure has gone to pot and my hair is going grey


    6. It has become more than a cook's court now, it is where the top aquatic food chefs compete at large elaborate counters with flaring flames and loud sizzling


    7. "I'm really sorry, I don't want to hurt you, I really do like you a lot, if the situation were a little different I would compete to share your cabin


    8. Compete and climb far more


    9. It has evolved so that its tissues drop boulders on silicates that compete with it for souls


    10. He had finally shown his true colors, 'exceeded above his tolerated station' to compete with the established families of Tahoe City for a share of their tourist dollars

    11. I didn’t see any way I could compete with a woman like that, especially if she’s professional bait


    12. What were the chances of encountering someone as sexy as Bethai who was interested enough to compete with Ava? Bethai was bigger and better with her pillows of course, but Ava was much more intelligent and to his eye much prettier because of her normal size


    13. The Saturday came when Collingston sent its best and brightest to compete


    14. mere silk hope to compete with a man who makes even the


    15. musicians vying for attention, but they couldn’t compete


    16. rather than compete with it


    17. She could have tried to compete with them, but knew he was just looking for pretty girls to have fun with


    18. She took a shower and made sure Luray saw plenty of the body she had to compete with


    19. As humans, we compete for food, for jobs, for honors, for love, for everything in fact


    20. Perhaps the most common way for businesses to compete is on price

    21. If you think you can compete as a one-man-band against companies


    22. If you are a small company, you can not only compete with, but surpass the big


    23. She could never compete with her sister when it came to looks – she would always be second best


    24. compete in tournaments and bouts


    25. None of their examples ever compete with the length, relevance, frequency or complexity of codes that are found in the Bible


    26. be able to compete with his memory! He was always there


    27. she wanted and had no inclination to copy her friends and compete


    28. trying to compete with the TV and her lack of respect


    29. It’s not that their tales about Scooter weren’t mildly interesting; it’s just that nothing they shared could compete with the amount of enthusiasm with which it was imparted


    30. During the competition, there will be a variety of rounds during which you will compete for points

    31. Hillary Clinton, presumably not realizing that she"s in completely over her head as Secretary of State, made the following peace-destroying blunder last week: „We believe … that it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence, that intend to compete for the Egyptian parliament and presidency


    32. And as far as the Tea Party has become slandered by „Progressives" to the point of characterizing them as a bunch of uneducated, know-nothing, racist bigots, such is always the fallback position of progressive/liberal know-it-alls who can"t compete with opposing ideas


    33. Look for Blogs that do not directly compete with each other for readers, when you do you can become an added service to each other and to our respective readers


    34. Vince continues to compete in the


    35. Like I said, old John Barley Corn is very patient and he does not want anyone or anything to have to compete with


    36. In an out and out conflict, no country in Southern Africa could even begin to compete military wise with Apartheid South Africa


    37. Compete the chart:


    38. (native) pay scales, ―good‖ for the native(s), perhaps, whose alternative lies in sleeping on city sidewalks, has given rise to salaries and wages that American blue collar workers could never hope to (viably) compete against


    39. determined pursuit of higher profits by corporate interests at the expense of increasing numbers of underemployed (American) Workers forced to compete against cheap(er) labor from burgeoning Third World populations, whose (own) increasing demands for jobs are further reducing domestic salaries, (if salary is the appropriate word), paid to workers whose wages (that‘s better!) barely places many above the poverty line (although I suppose it beats living in the streets)


    40. to start several days before you actually head out there to compete

    41. In its time there was nothing that could compete with it and I think with much nostalgia of them


    42. ―rough housing‖ supposedly favors bigger, stronger, more athletic types at the expense (chagrin) of other children who, lacking the necessary corporeal endowments or, as they relate to musical chairs, quick feet and agility, (often) find themselves unable to compete at a higher level


    43. I like to think that this friendly competition helped them learn to compete heartily and respectfully


    44. After designing more than fifty planes, some big, some small, some duds and some real masterpieces; the fact was that you really couldn’t compete with nine-year old Chinese kids making, ‘almost ready to fly,’ planes for less money


    45. You just couldn’t compete


    46. With the Republicans as a strong party to compete with the Democrats, the Know-Nothings went into a sharp decline


    47. There is no way corporations could compete since what they do in inherently inferior, costs more and saves fewer lives since its main motive is profit, not health


    48. They brought with them enforcers armed with modern weapons and electronics, ready to battle police or anyone foolish enough to compete


    49. They didn’t compete so directly in the political sense with Imperial Authority, he theorized


    50. Originally, back in the mists of time, they didn’t compete for the same types of resources, an old and comfortable relationship






































    1. Menachem introduced me to a world of shabby-chic fitness, and we competed with each other in impossible contests; press-ups and squat-thrusts, star-jumps, stomach crunches, and bicep lifts


    2. It wasn't the first time they had competed for the approval or praise of their elders, just the first time it went so completely to their core as individuals


    3. These two brawlers reminded her of a giant and a dwarf back home, who’d competed with the


    4. We have competed with 40 millions other spermatozoids to become the only chosen one


    5. In June 2008, he competed again and


    6. Delis, bakeries and open trash cans competed for the attention of your nose


    7. The sound of an approaching helicopter competed with the rumblings of the low hanging clouds as the summer storm grew in intensity, lashing the landscape with rain


    8. Congratulations! You competed building your website


    9. Also, during the first three hundred years of the Christian Era, this version competed rather seriously with the apostolic renderings, having been able to lead church teaching for a short interval before the Council of Nicaea overthrew their versions


    10. Among those that had been declared apocryphal (of doubtful authenticity or authorship), many still competed for the attention of the faithful and would for a long time

    11. period they competed in


    12. Had I heard my teammates’ advice, I would have been the top dog in my weight class among the military and prep schools we competed against


    13. Quickly following this, a certain morbid exhilaration competed for his emotions at the realization of what this find could mean to them


    14. Boardwalk Main competed primarily to not grow old


    15. It competed with the bogs moving on the surface of an eight-lane superhighway in Siberia


    16. didn’t know was that I had also competed in and won the Miss


    17. The hour stood still as the Dangler and the squat fisherman competed for a final prize, but it was the Dangler’s line time tugged first


    18. The original Olympic athletes competed naked and so should the students


    19. Irish dancing competitions were held at the festival each year and every school of dancing in the town and beyond competed for medals in the various categories


    20. The school had four teams that competed at every class level in both winter and summer sports

    21. They competed in the gruelling national circuit that took them to the four corners of Ireland


    22. In ’87 my story ‘with Friends like these’ competed against 5,400 entries from every province, every state in the US and most countries


    23. During the sing-along interval, when it was ‘Girls versus the Boys,’ they could have competed on their own; such was the abandoned enthusiasm with which they all took part


    24. Momen competed in the sport against neighboring barrios


    25. She started running with the varsity team during middle school, having already competed in long distance races with a local track club


    26. For example the very term “Photo Editing” is being competed by over 25,900,000


    27. retouching India” which is being competed by more than 90,700 and whose average


    28. Back in my room Jack London and Forbes competed for my thoughts over the


    29. in fact he and the three years younger man had often competed in their teenage years, but things like this brought a family together, as it very well should


    30. Everyone knew it and everyone competed for it, all day, every day

    31. tax law and accounting skills, and the measurement never competed with the more


    32. An enraged Li, resolved not to let the Spacers League gain some legitimacy through that referendum, then decided to act without delay, just as the various news medias competed to describe the situation in wild hyperboles


    33. He had competed for many years, but was only able to gain "B" status as a swordsman


    34. Ben wondered what it would be like to be transported back to Ancient Earth and to competed in one of their fencing tournaments; probably something like a jet versus a biplane, or like Ben squashing a bug under the heel of his boot


    35. they discovered when Sister Gen competed in the bathing suit competition


    36. “Congratulations to the Recruits and Officials who competed in this evening’s tournament


    37. Though there was always plenty of food at the Great Table, the siblings competed for food


    38. It was only those who avoided challenges and death that were pitied, and those rarely competed in the gene pool


    39. competed with Xerox when that


    40. the long jump and won every race I competed in,

    41. Reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, indigoes and violets; all competed for


    42. “I mean, I know you have competed in gymnastic,


    43. selected to represent the National South African Defence Force Team that competed


    44. These teams competed for points by using their fleet of twelve spacecraft each


    45. louder as everyone competed to be heard over the voices of those around them


    46. One God still competed with another for top billing, His fans of one stripe knocking off those of the other while Pope prayed for peace (w/ Catholics still bombing Protestants and Moslems) and Ayatollah prayed for Jihad (Death to all infidels!)


    47. around, they have already competed and rehearsed their success 100 – 1000 times before in their mind


    48. Aside from being successful in business, he had also competed as a semi-professional athlete and was in excellent health


    49. winning or losing the competed for prize


    50. “Ims and Nons competed for monergy and that is why and how chine consciousness imerged






































    1. She competes against your body’s signals, goes through the sexual motions, but gets no results and gets frustrated to no end


    2. Home-grown wheat in this sense competes with wheat in commerce


    3. Each pupil competes against himself by trying to improve against previous performances


    4. increase at a faster rate than quantity, the firm may have created a niche that competes on


    5. Nicotinic acid competes with uric acid for excretion in the urine


    6. Every candidate competes for your connection


    7. Money competes with love, but love does not compete at all


    8. We fixed him all up and he is a great trail horse who competes


    9. So whenever anyone competes on a generally equal playing field where neither has an unfair advantage over the other, whether it is Individual Equality, or Group Equality: 12 men against 12 other men for instance: the better team or man will always win: the more competent, the more intelligent, the more efficient man will always win out: not the other way around as it is right now: where the basis of success in business is the more incompetent and sneaky you are, the less you actually contribute to society the more you are rewarded… A society based upon the principle of Universal Equality will guarantee that the best man will always win out… the best woman will always win out…


    10. It will be evident from the chart that the influence of what we call analytical factors over the market price is both partial and indirect—partial, because it frequently competes with purely speculative factors which influence the price in the opposite direction; and indirect, because it acts through the intermediary of people’s sentiments and decisions

    11. You don’t want to have money when everybody else has money, because then everybody else also competes for assets, and they are expensive


    12. June Haver competes with a pair of prizewinning mules for the affections of farmboy Lon McCallister in rural Indiana, all dressed up in Technicolor


    13. That's obviously important in the end, but given that any credible assessment of a company's value relies in large part on judging the prospects for its business, most investors focus first on understanding the dynamics of the company's competitive environment, the secular trends affecting the industries in which it competes, and the impact all of the above has on the sustainability and profitability of its business model


    14. The air was still very cold and a cold night was coming, so that the brew, rising from cold water to a rolling boil, gave the good smell that competes successfully with other good smells


    15. Because cheap pork competes with beef, particularly the expensive cuts, the growing backlog also put downward pressure on beef prices


    1. During the weeks and months of my incarceration there had only ever been the emptiness of night and the confused ramblings of my own competing thoughts and images


    2. What they were long on was endurance, the herd seemed to be having fun competing with each other for how far and fast they could run, maybe the one who gets the farthest is the new leader of the herd


    3. I am not competing for your love with Desa, I'm here to reinforce your love for Desa


    4. competing with millions of other sites


    5. We could think of it as a creature that has detected a tumor growing in its body and its immune system is at work excising the tumor, or we can think of it as an OS that has detected a competing OS


    6. “We were competing with it,” Alfred said, “we Angels, we simulates


    7. meats and several fish merchants, each competing with the others to


    8. At least two of the stalls were competing in their selection of


    9. Do you have any idea what year it might have been when the first businessman sent a pretty girl to bed the proprietor of a competing business and extract his financial secrets across the pillow?”


    10. The only person, someone should be competing against, is himself or herself

    11. The cacophony of sounds that filled the market minutes earlier, the arguments, competing


    12. They have a policy to remove anything that is competing for your visual


    13. This, specifically, is the theory of natural selection, meaning that those who are best are competing for those limited resources will ‘be selected naturally’ to continue on with their development over time


    14. Creating a winning subject line is critical when competing against other marketers also email marketing to the same audience


    15. Similar to other martial arts styles, Judo has rules that ensure the safety of those competing in the competitions


    16. The crowd bustled toward the doors, pushing others out of the way with continuing shouts and screams, as if they were competing for the only way to survive


    17. It was an eye opener for me to watch the old timers fire their pistols like a revolver, standing side on with one hand behind their backs as if they were competing at the Olympic Games or something


    18. Besides, how are diminishing (capital) resources expected to vie for cheaper consumer products when many workers will find themselves either under-employed or competing in greater numbers for lower paying jobs? (I exaggerate to make a point


    19. Operating in a free and open environment has historically encouraged Americans to consider the merit(s) and values of competing arguments by weighing the credibility of each in a manner that allows an individual to form accurate impressions and render sound judgments


    20. As someone that is competing in an athletic event, you need to position

    21. the process may find itself encumbered by any number of unintended consequences or competing designs operating within that (social) environment…


    22. The Material and the Spiritual are competing dynamics!


    23. He thanked the sponsors, the competing hair salons and the judges, as well as the spectators, for what had been a wonderful competition and what was now a first in the Helderberg area and hopefully not the last


    24. For this reason, a timid individual, for example, may be more unlikely than another individual, who is more daring, to confront pressing challenges unless the underlying motives are superseded by other, more compelling reasons or competing factors connected in some manner with the


    25. As a sports fan who came of age in the sixties, I often ask myself, what have become of the Larry Czonka‘s or the Bill Riggins‘ or the Jerry West‘s or Rick Barry‘s, White Athletes who once dominated their respected sports? Is it conceivable that, in a day and age when the financial rewards are exceptionally high, (White‘s) have suddenly lost their competitive spark? Or could it be that many have fallen victim, in their own right, to stereotypical standards that seem to favor skill specific attributes like speed or vertical aptitude above other, less ―remarkable‖ qualities equally essential for performing on a higher level? Will such patterns eventually mandate the same type of protective status for Whites that are presently afforded to African Americans and other racial minorities competing in the public and private sectors? The latter is a stretch, granted


    26. More recently, tourism became a major industry for the province and brought new life to the economy, competing each year with bananas for first place


    27. The various groups of people fell into a spawn of three or four competing actions called by several different groups, which had merged plans


    28. He looked at the man, idly wondering at the coincidence of so similar a voice to Frazer’s, while amid a myriad of thoughts competing for attention, was horror at the thought of Beth returning


    29. Parties spend millions and millions of dollars competing to get elected because of the ability to lie after winning—and dole out the candy—and this makes the Party winning the election much better off


    30. The Bible tells us that Jesus’ way is still the best way, but will we have ears to listen with, regarding the great multiplicity of distractions of the many competing spiritualities? Will we Christians have the foresight to give our modern institution of investigation, science, a respectful hearing for its new answers? Answers that appear to be well grounded as reflected in the parables that are in the Bible and are the Bible as iterated in the early chapters of this book? And will their counterparts in science reciprocate?

    31. This caused the gradual weakening within the movement, opening the way for intruders who seemed bent on competing with, even destroying it, if necessary, or capable


    32. So, these two competing groups, able to negotiate the allegiance of at least some of these powerful military commanders began the dance around an ethereal throne where only one would be able to sit when the music stopped


    33. So the music stopped, the seat was occupied and those who could not renew their grasp upon it were ground underfoot in such a convincing manner that those who had quickly occupied it would feel secure enough to dispose of any competing heirs without fear of reprisal


    34. Is it any wonder that the gift of the white stone (as described in chapter 17, The Revelation) looked more like the iridium layer that separated the dinosaurs from everything that came after? And the lamp stand of the Ephesians, as well as those around them, was knocked loose from its firm foundation so many times that it finally broke altogether in Constantinople’s collapse in 1453? And the gift of the Morning Star, the universality of the Christian Church so smothered by the pollution of the competing belief systems of Catholicism and the Protest that it refuses to shine through even today?


    35. These factions, depending upon the popularity of their competing interpretations, may gain adherents


    36. As a faction grows, disagreements widen to the point of eventual separation into two or more competing and antagonistic parts, each contending that their view is superior to the others, or all others


    37. Alone in the foyer, I surveyed the scores of young women competing for the prize in the soprano section, accompanied by their mothers fussing over them


    38. “States whose influence is right here, right now, competing for our souls from the


    39. assessing where to focus investments between competing projects


    40. The two male titans left competing in the battle of knives lost to Molin and Elena, but it was Elena who took the title of champion even though Molin was a terrific opponent

    41. The thought of two competing strong odors made me ill and I asked to return to court


    42. As a result, two competing theories have developed as to how the Court should view the Constitution


    43. because he was starting his own seat business, and he was afraid of competing


    44. He was selected from a list of competing professors from the Los Angeles Community College District to lead its first semester study program in Spain


    45. Your content will be competing with conversations, sponsored tweets, breaking news headlines, quips and different types of information


    46. But what am I competing in? Why was I blogging to begin with? Yes, I do want this blog to let


    47. A thrilling shiver runs through me, competing with a warm woozy sensation that floods my belly


    48. Under a “king-of-the-hill” rule, Members can vote on a long string of competing legislative proposals, but only the last one to receive a majority vote becomes law


    49. after time, collectively competing for the stability of the moment


    50. In all the studies that have repeatedly shown the socialistic bias of professors, few have inquired whether this is just a natural or accidental development, or whether it is in many cases a deliberate attempt by socialists determined to keep out competing viewpoints












































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