Players from both countries believed strongly in the idea of friendship first, competition second.

两国选手都坚信友谊第一，比赛第二的理念。

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In any event, those American rulings may have been based on a faulty idea of how competition works in this area.

无论如何，这些美国人的判决可能基于该领域竞争机制的一个错误观念。

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The last option is a particularly bad idea, given the obvious conflicts of interests involved, but fostering more ratings competition is a welcome goal.

鉴于其中掺杂利益关系过于复杂，因此后者是一个极坏的想法，但培育更多评级竞争则是一个受欢迎的目标。

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In eighteen fifty-eight a design competition was held to find the best idea for planning this huge area in the center of New York City.

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"The future of France in the family of great nations depends on our capacity for initiative - a value totally at variance with an enarque culture based on zero risk and suspicious of any idea of competition or power-sharing, " they said.

BBC: Call to close elite French college

At a time when the EU is trying to persuade reluctant countries to open up their energy markets to the fierce winds of competition and abandon the French idea of "national champions", Gazprom is a very vivid example that such allegedly old-fashioned out-of-date thinking can work dramatically well for the country concerned.

BBC: Europe diary: The gas man

The idea of open competition and transparency in Russia's energy markets has been an idea foreign to Putin, with the enigmatic leader consolidating his power by nationalizing key energy sectors, imprisoning energy executives opposed to his views and forbidding foreign access and investment in many of Russia's "sensitive" industries.

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