competitive struggle

And to lose in a competitive struggle means to be a loser.

There must be a competitive struggle for resources that aid in survival.

Since life is a continuing competitive struggle, this is as it should be.

This turns the differences between national regulations into a nuisance factor in the competitive struggle.

The competitive struggle for existence, they said, was brutal.

This is necessarily a source of weakness for the banks in the competitive struggle against the building societies.

Unfortunately, in the competitive struggle for dominance, both partners often overlook or forget the needs of the public.

"Unlike the Federal Government," he said recently, "states are caught in a rough competitive struggle with one another."

He thus provides a metaphor for the competitive struggle for existence that goes on among human communities.

The competitive struggle will spur ever accelerating innovation.

With this long-running rivalry, fireworks - or at the least a strong competitive struggle between the singers and between their fans - can be expected.

Reproduction is not guided by a moral imperative toward humanity as a whole but by a competitive struggle to pass on genes.

The main purpose of the game in Virtonomics is to build a successful business in a tough competitive struggle.

In the competitive struggle for limited resources, egocentric behaviors fostering survival and reproduction were favored by evolutionary pressures.

Now a scientist argues that the competitive struggle starts long before birth, and that it plays a vital role in the development of an embryo.

Competitive struggle is destructive.

Fritjof Capra once said that life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

Today's announcement signals that United and American, two of the world's largest carriers, may be gearing up for a major competitive struggle in Canada.

That institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote.

Earlier Darwinian thinkers, we learn, underestimated beneficial interactions between species, portraying evolution as a competitive struggle of all against all.

The Daily News closed last year after a competitive struggle with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Such sense of community has tended to be less a Juilliard hallmark than competitive struggle, artistic angst, epidemic insecurity and psychological isolation.

In the competitive struggle between the two systems, the GDR did not merely want to be part of international developments, it wanted to take the lead.

As in his earlier best seller, "Head to Head," Mr. Thurow presents trade as a competitive struggle among countries.

It is only with coherent, far-sighted and, most important of all, common action by the European Union that we can hope not to be the losers in this global competitive struggle.