But competition from the railways damaged trade and the waterway gradually fell into disrepair.
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Competition from the talentless makes life tough for those a few rungs up the ladder.
And competition from the generic drug firms that produce copycat versions of patented medicines has intensified.
And this is with steep competition from the hotly anticipated and well-received Halo 4 as well.
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Despite heavy competition from the Droid and the iPhone, it remains one of the best-selling smart phones.
And third, the cable companies, spurred by competition from the satellite and telephone companies, have been investing.
Competition from the two Russian-built plants undermines the case for a planned new nuclear-power plant at Visaginas.
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He beat off competition from the bookies' favourite and the poet laureate to win his first major award.
All newspaper organisations are facing more competition from the likes of Google, blogs and non-traditional media as well.
The supermarkets face little competition from the independent businesses who still run more than half the convenience stores.
Sony and Amazon also face competition from the many other e-book reading devices that are starting to be produced.
Their annual migrations face ever greater competition from the expansion of settled communities.
Their programs generate more revenue, and the competition from the NFL and NBA for coaching services further escalates their pay.
Too much competition from the private sector would jeopardise the free exchange of data that allows any country to formulate forecasts.
They would reopen the NHS to competition from the independent sector by allowing it to bid for work on equal terms.
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Meanwhile, Formula One constructors Renault beat off competition from the likes of 2005 Champions League winners Liverpool to win the team award.
Granted, there was little competition from the hot-tempered captain and his stodgy, surly officers, but Mr. Domville was cut from different cloth.
England bowler Stuart Broad ruled himself out of the whole competition from the start in order to concentrate on the Ashes instead.
As usual there was competition from the MPs to chase personal hares.
Kings Of Leon beat off competition from The Verve, Metallica, Muse and Rage Against The Machine to win the best festival headline act.
Imagine, too, some pretty bad news for Groupon, which faces a whole new kind of competition from the recently-launched Google Offers discount system.
The 23-mile (37km) canal closed in 1871 because of competition from the railways, and its restoration has been under way since the 1970s.
And, of course, both papers are fending off competition from the Internet, which is stealing both readers and ad revenue across the country.
He thought he saw a turnaround at Winn-Dixie Stores, part of the supermarket sector battered by intense competition from the likes of Wal-Mart.
The fear here is that a Democratic-controlled Congress will again squeeze student lenders and attempt to ramp up competition from the direct lending program.
However, the effort to attract more service-oriented businesses faces stiff competition from the nearby office market of Hong Kong, a long-established international financial capital.
The French no campaign harped on the fear that living standards would be undermined by competition from the east (famously symbolised by Polish plumbers).
President Satoru Iwata will take a 50% pay cut while pondering how to fight new competition from the likes of Sony, Microsoft and especially Apple.
The industry has complained loudly about new competition from the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and it's taken a huge hit from the rising cost of fuel.
Had Huber decided to offer hundreds of fun applications for what would become Onstar, GM would surely have faced impossible competition from the eventual world of smartphones.
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