For example, telling an athlete to "focus" during the heat of a competition does not help.
Resident Nick Menday said it first became "a bit of a competition" before it escalated.
The winner of a competition on her website will duet with Boyle on her second album The Gift.
As part of a competition, students write algorithms for the SPHERES to accomplish tasks relevant to future space missions.
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But with record numbers of students applying for university places, admissions tutors are warning of a competition for places.
The imminent creation of a competition commission, together with the development of new industries, may help loosen their grip.
The Plumtree roommates have made staying late something of a competition, in which they all try to outlast one another.
"It's been an incredible day, " said McIlory, who followed Woods' tradition of wearing a red shirt on the final day of a competition.
Mid Pennine Arts is co-ordinating the Panopticons and the first three designs were created as part of a competition with the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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The new games were created as part of a competition that saw teams of students from around the world create a game in nine weeks.
Credit to Australia, they held us out, but we should have come away with more points than that and it might have been more of a competition.
It said the cuts aimed to improve returns for shareholders and come ahead of a Competition Commission decision on its merger with Irn-Bru owner AG Barr, expected by July.
The rationalised process is part of a competition to find more cultural and natural heritage places of global importance, which are fit to become future UK World Heritage Sites.
The wedding as a show of prosperity has turned the events into somewhat of a competition, which each family attempting to make the events more lavish than the last.
Italy's previous big recession, in 1992-93, prompted a wave of reforms: privatisations, changes to pension entitlements, the creation of a competition authority and the demise of the scala mobile.
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The fruits of a competition, sponsored by the foundation, asking for ideas on how London can be made more habitable are currently on display at the Oxo Tower wharf.
At the launch of a competition to design it, I specifically remember it becoming about providing a green, clean bus to try and solve the air pollution crisis in London.
Governor Sarah Palin, with her thick Alaskan accent, laid out the case for her and John McCain's election this November while showing some of the aggressiveness of a competition-driven "hockey mom".
The bit of PWC forcibly hived off might well wither and die quite quickly, or simply specialise in auditing smaller companies (where there is less of a competition problem, in any case).
Not only will the mission test how commercial, off-the-shelf tech can survive in the vacuum and conduct experiments, but it'll squeeze in some fun courtesy of apps developed by winners of a competition held last year.
The other day I ran into an important U.S. official who pointed out that there's now something of a competition in a number of developing countries to see which one can improve most in the Doing Business annual survey.
It first entered the Collins English dictionary in 2005 with the definition "the tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the leaders".
From their point of view, improper conduct is a kind of unfair competition that puts them at a disadvantage.
When the companies agreed on certain pricing arrangements, this was not a limitation on competition but a form of competition.
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Patterson wrote that he developed the app as part of a coding competition, or hackathon.
The RFU said the vote to support the formation of a new competition was carried by an "overwhelming majority".
"This campaign has been more of a personality competition rather a debate over the strategic issues facing Israel, " Malka said.
Mr. COOK: With a lack of much competition and a marketplace all to themselves, they just rolled up, you know, gigantic numbers.
"This campaign has been more of a personality competition rather a debate over the strategic issues facing Israel, " said Malka, the Center for Strategic and International Studies analyst.
The result is an absence of common policy, and in place of it a competition for Russia's friendship between France and Germany, which Britain used to join but rarely does now.
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