Weeds sprout through the track ballast and vie with discarded crisp packets and drink cans.
In Britain and Italy satellite also has to vie with attractive free digital-terrestrial television services.
Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must collaborate closely to fend off competition from without.
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Flood is likely to vie with Danny Cipriani for the England fly-half berth in the November internationals.
First imported as pets, the feral snakes vie with native animals for food and have devastated mammal populations.
Or it could do an initial public offering for Chrysler, forcing Fiat to vie with investors for the shares.
U.S. airlines will vie with BA, the dominant carrier at Heathrow, that currently has flights to 24 U.S. cities.
In plush shopping malls, tight jeans vie with veils, just as on Kuwait's airwaves blaring pop clashes with Koranic recitation.
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These days, more than 1, 000 agencies world-wide vie with one another to bestow on products an alphabet soup of kosher insignia.
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Homeland's Lewis will vie with fellow Brits Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead and The Americans star Matthew Rhys for best actor in a drama series.
Increasingly, companies vie with each other to be seen as "green".
In the crowd, iPods and designer sunglasses vie with headscarves and prayer beads as the accessory of choice, showcasing the diversity of the 13-million-strong local population.
But Caixin Weekly, a Beijing magazine, reports that provinces still vie with one another to boost their GDP figures with the help of big investment projects.
But Boeing tore up this deal in 2004 as Airbus prepared to launch the A380 super-jumbo (to challenge Boeing's 747) and the A350 (to vie with the 777 and 787).
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Russ Feingold of Wisconsin used to vie with him for the title of loneliest dissident, as measured by the number of times they voted against the majority in divisions of 99 to one.
Celtic's latest recruit Fox will vie with Lee Naylor for the left-back role and the Celtic manager knows the former Wolves defender has received criticism from sections of the club's support in the past.
Tender, creamy and finished with a tasteful flurry of poppy seeds, the dish in front of me was more like a charming and coddled European paramour arrived to vie with the square-jawed, calloused-handed Yankee hash for my affections.
Other firms with VIE structures are also involved in electronic payments.
"It's like being at an estate or someone's private home, " says Deborah Zie, general manager of Cal-a-Vie--albeit one with a new, 17, 000-square-foot fitness center.
In this context, UNESCO organized a workshop on the Global Microscience Experiments in partnership with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and in collaboration with the Guri Vie Meilleure Foundation, founded by the First Lady of Niger.
Winery SF is one of several that have opened here, including Fat Grape, which specialises in zinfandel, syrah and sangiovese with no added sulphites, and Vie, which makes high quality, limited-production Rhone varietals like mourvedre and syrah.
While based in the competitive California market, where nine major avocado handlers vie for business, it has a diversified supply with fruits also coming from Mexico, Chile, Peru, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic.
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If the SEC were to take broader action against all VIE structures, presumably they would have to deal with the same implications as the Chinese government, namely that the number of companies and the market value that they represent are enormous.
Manufacturers of personal digital assistants like Palm and Handspring will eventually vie for a piece of that action, perhaps in collaboration with some phone makers.
La Vie, the country's most popular mineral water, contends with a host of blatant knock-offs with names like La Vi, La Ve and La Viei.
The Homeland Security Department allocates funds based on what it determines are the cities at greatest risk, with New York topping a list of 10 cities that vie for the largest portion of the money.
Even our nominal allies in a unifying Europe seem to be replacing national companies in this sector with consortiums and teaming arrangements that will be better able to vie for contracts worldwide and dominate an increasingly closed-shop European continent.
Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature species programme, disagrees with the review's conclusion that "species are more likely to be described than become extinct".
Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).
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