Further, SFD expects that heightened environmental and animal welfare regulations in competing countries will support the export demand.
The organising committee said athletes from each of the 111 competing countries would wear ribbons during the closing ceremony on 5 February.
The organising committee also announced that athletes from each of the 111 competing countries will wear ribbons during the closing ceremony on 5 February.
Because America continues to underinvest in clean energy innovation and competing countries continue to make gains, we risk not only losing clean energy manufacturing, but the innovation as well.
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The last time Wales won a Six Nations rugby international at England's home stronghold, the team went on to claim the 2008 title and complete a grand slam of victories against all competing countries.
Exclusion from the 2009 World Twenty20 in England could open up an extra place for the countries competing at August's qualification tournament in Belfast.
This is the Olympics of youth science, with more than 1, 500 entries from 70 countries competing, each of which already won their national competitions.
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The IPC World Championships is the most prestigious event for disability athletes outside the Paralympic Games, with 1500 athletes competing from 77 countries in 240 events.
The University of Bath was used as a base for a number of countries competing at London 2012 and will host the majority of this summer's 12-sport event.
As Berners-Lee explains in the above video, the Web industry would descend into chaos without such a governing body, with competing companies and countries promoting their own proprietary languages and protocols to the detriment of consumers.
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But competing on price with countries like China and on engineering with countries like Germany is not easy.
This is not the only place in which two countries have competing designs.
Sure, these countries are competing with us for good jobs, but how can we enforce our trade laws against our bankers?
However, in second place will be Asian economies replacing markets like Italy, and competing directly with other countries as a go-to nation for fixed income investors.
The WBC is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, and since 2006 it has featured the best players in the world competing for their home countries and territories.
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Mr. Annan, who convened the meeting to help salvage a peace plan for Syria he brokered in April, warned that the country's deepening conflict posed "extreme dangers" to the region and the world, and reprimanded countries for competing agendas which have locked the international community in a stalemate while often fueling the violence inside Syria.
Deficit countries are all competing for the good opinion of global savers.
However, London 2012 is expected to be the most competitive Games yet, given the number of athletes competing and financial backing for countries such as China.
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With over 1, 000 gamers from around the globe competing, viewers from 171 countries watched four live streams during the three-day, double elimination tournament online at www.majorleaguegaming.com for a total of more than 2.6 million hours of video consumed.
The pursuit of overseas students has become big business - with UK universities competing with higher education institutions in countries such as the United States and Australia.
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Competition among funds has failed to curb their operating costs, which amount to a steep 3% of wages in some countries: instead of competing on price, the firms have spent heavily on advertising and sales agents.
More so than other European countries, Britain should be competing with America as a tech leader.
Unless we improve our schools, we'll soon fall behind countries that we're "competing" with economically.
As belt-tightening happens in the investor countries, many countries in Africa are finding themselves competing for a shrinking pot of investment money.
After all, we live in a world where different countries operate with different tax regimes, competing (I would hope) to attract businesses -- and therefore jobs -- to their shores.
Other countries have filled the void and are now competing with us for the world's smartest students.
In contrast to most countries, where pay is centrally negotiated, competing American campuses strive to outbid one another for talent.
As I pointed out in an earlier column in Slate , the growth of labor-intensive exports from Third World countries, a development possible only because those countries are able to offset their disadvantages by competing on the basis of cheap labor, has brought about a huge improvement in the human condition, even if the wages look miserably low by our standards.
We can have some people who are really willing to work hard, but if the technology is coming from overseas and all we're competing for is just our labor, then over time those countries will get richer, our countries will get poorer.
The cost-cutting was considered vital to competing with the very low-cost Android smartphones that thrive in countries like China, as Nokia wasn't about to throw a mix of basic Symbian phones and Windows Phones against a pure smartphone platform like Google's.
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