But once in Canada, visitors will find that Air Canada can be a tough player, ruthlessly countering domestic competition.

Palm Inc., whose hand-held computers became an icon for the popular- technology boom, is gradually retooling its business model to counter competition fashioned primarily by its own success.

Economies of scale are important in selling term insurance, for example, and to counter increased competition from banks.

Deutsche Bank is looking for American investment banking expertise to counter growing international competition.

Subsequently a focus of National Democracy interest was countering Polish-Jewish economic competition with Catholic Poles.

Analysts believe Singapore will be able to counter competition in the region in its integrated resort plans.

Its later traffic was entirely walkers and it was retained in an attempt to counter competition from local bus services and encourage tourist traffic.

Winn-Dixie of Jacksonville, Fla., has been cutting prices to counter increased competition.

The World Trade Organisation agreements, accepted by Brussels, thus forced them to delocalise production in order to counter competition.

However, by the same token, it is important for the European Union to give greater support to its own ports to counter unfair competition from third-country ports.