The risk of competitive tax cutting between parts of the UK is "a race to the bottom".
That's what they should be focused on. (Applause.) We don't want a race to the bottom.
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This is why we have a race to the bottom for the lowest wages or most lax environmental standards.
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"We would end up competing on low-wages and low-skills: an off-shore low-value economy, a race to the bottom, " he said.
It will be a race to the bottom to see which plan can offer the cheapest benefit, while still meeting minimum standards.
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The consequences can be poor provision and a race to the bottom.
For we can see that the poor are getting rich: so how is that either exploitation or a race to the bottom?
So should we succumb to a race to the bottom and a protectionism that history tells us that, in the end, protects no-one?
This simply is not a race to the bottom and those who use such rhetoric are going to end up losing the argument.
Data is a race to the bottom in terms of cost.
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But now both parties are in a race to the bottom.
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But the US, with its current bi-partisan drive towards a corporate state, may soon be engaged in a race to the bottom with these other countries.
More competition should help, but it might just as easily lead to a race to the bottom, as agencies vie to offer the best terms to issuers.
Before tablets and Ultrabooks took hold, many PC vendors were engaged in a race to the bottom where competition was only possible through ever cheaper parts, not breakthrough design.
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It's not a race to the bottom, but rather it says each country is abiding by everything from strong rules around labor and the environment to intellectual property protection.
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In this scenario, absent hoped-for and new significant differentiators between vendors, market share may be gained by a race to the bottom when it comes to per-gigabyte pricing at least while the model lasts.
Then again, Sony did announce the VAIO W after rebuking netbooks as a race to the bottom thus leaving Apple as the only major without a low-cost netbook in its portfolio.
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And in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some states, perversely, have actually had to lower their standards in a race to the bottom instead of a Race to the Top.
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But another critical reason for this is that education policies all too often encourage a race to the bottom a purchasing of the cheapest product regardless of quality rather than one that pays for student outcomes.
Mr Gove believes such a system fuelled what he called "a race to the bottom", with exam boards being tempted to offer easier qualifications to win schools over to their exams, leading to a "dumbing down" of qualifications.
But Mr Gove told the Commons it was his plan to introduce a single exam board for each subject, to avoid what had been described as a race to the bottom, that had prompted him to withdraw his plans.
But if there aren't rules in place to guard against the recklessness of a few, and they're allowed to exploit consumers and take on excessive risk, it starts a race to the bottom that results in all of us losing.
The fact that so few have acted on their own is perhaps an indication of how permissive accounting rules can cause a race to the bottom that, in the end, can lead to scandal or an atmosphere that permits scandal.
Last month, Mr Weidmann raised the spectre of a global currency war, suggesting the erosion of central bank independence around the world threatened to unleash a race to the bottom as politicians pushed central banks to replace inflation targets with measures that could serve to weaken currencies.
The altruist idea that the need of one man is a moral claim on the lives of others sets up a race to the bottom, where needs multiply and ability is punished. (This was unforgettably dramatized in the story of the 20th Century Motor Company, in Atlas Shrugged).
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It is this situation which Mr Gove believes has led to a "race to the bottom".
This follows concerns that such competition leads to a "race to the bottom", with an incentive for exam boards to attract more business by making it easier to pass.
Issuance of these loans exploded just before the crisis, as buyout firms launched ever-larger takeovers and banks engaged in a destructive race to the bottom, ceding a huge amount of power to borrowers and ending up with large losses.
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In short, devaluation is the very embodiment of a "race to the bottom, " demonstrated by the exporter's relative economic weakness infecting the economic health of the importer.
University finances would be destabilised as the system would encourage a "race to the bottom" on one hand and competition for AAB students on the other, he added.
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