Its rivals are all merging, and Japan's clannish, inward-looking corporate culture makes that very hazardous.
Insurers have a remarkably inward-looking focus, with little effort expended to engage regulators, policymakers and others.
It hadn't been the first time that Cardinal Bergoglio had mentioned the inward-looking nature of the church.
Triadic architecture, developed by the Maya, involved a main structure with two inward-facing buildings on either side.
Discussing the often "inward-looking" history of EU negotiations, Mr Gordon said that "referendums have often turned countries inward".
NATO, Mr Solana makes sure that nobody forgets him in the close-knit, inward-looking world of Spanish Socialist politics.
Its firms are giants that until now have been inward-looking but are starting to use their vast resources abroad.
Guyana became heavily indebted as a result of the inward-looking, state-led development model pursued in the 1970s and 1980s.
With Associated's 1, 500 traders as shock troops, Anderson changed Panenergy from an inward-focused pipeline operator into an accomplished trading house.
"The fact is that if the renamed constitution goes through we will have a more inward-looking Europe, " said Mr Hague.
Cultural historian Christopher Cook says the fundamental change is that these celebrations used to be family affairs, private and inward-looking.
With Associated's 1, 500 traders as shock troops, Anderson had changed Panenergy from an inward-focused pipeline operator into an accomplished trading house.
In that period, Colombia has changed from an inward-looking country ruled by an oligarchical elite into an increasingly dynamic and urbanised democracy.
Nor does the community seem to be inward-looking or unwilling to assimilate.
To make matters worse, Cox, who was born with a dislocated hip and therefore an inward-turning leg, was teased for having "crazy legs".
This inward-out view of marketing ignores audience needs and assumes that all audiences are the same, and that all searches must indicate intent.
Passenger numbers fell by 400, 000 during the Olympics, as Britons stayed home to enjoy the Games and the number of inward-bound travellers dipped.
The 1983 novel, by Graham Swift, from which the picture has been adapted is a determinedly inward-looking work: unpromising material for a film.
Under the project title "500 Wants You, " the hitherto inward-looking manufacturer invited ordinary people to submit ideas for designs on its Web site.
Silicon Valley was once so inward-looking that venture capitalists used to say they would not back a start-up unless they could cycle to its office.
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Americans might prefer to regard their country as an inward-looking place that periodically got dragged into the world's affairs through no fault of its own.
Slovenia's sleepy and inward-looking public institutions are certainly ripe for change.
The sprawling city risked disintegrating into a collection of inward-looking suburbs.
Less noted, perhaps, is the retrenchment of Roman Catholicism in France from the aggressive political role it played as recently as the Dreyfus affair toward the inward-turning N.
Rather it was to draw attention to the extraordinary and improbable power of self-interest: this stunted, inward-looking trait is transformed, through spontaneous social co-operation, into a force for the common good.
Three decades ago, Mexico had an inward-looking, oil-dominated economy.
While the exterior walls are white washed, the inward-facing walls are comprised of panels of various shapes and sizes -- all of them covered with brick and tile work in various patterns.
The report, The Barriers to Choice in Public Services, looked at "whether inward-looking admissions criteria, for example by faith and super-selective schools, ought to be balanced by a broad duty to promote a social balance inside the school".
Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration (we appreciate what Samsung tried to do with the original BlackJack's every-other-key layout, but in practice, it just didn't work out).
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