But there's a difference between trying to be competitive with the world and trying to be apart from it.
Selfridges, a London department store, recently opened its Quiet Room, a space dedicated to be apart from the hubbub of regular retailing.
Think about how hard it is for military kids to be apart from the people they love most, how they miss their moms and dads every day and would do anything to have them back home.
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But the overwhelming majority of people will not be affected apart from perhaps psychologically.
In other words, all avenues will be explored apart from the one that will work.
But if they wanted a table they would be seated apart from whites.
Juncker, in contrast, concluded that all avenues would be explored apart from Official Sector Involvement (OSI) i.e. the Euro area member states writing down their debt.
As frequently happens, however, I suspect history will reveal the consequences of the quarrel to be quite apart from what anyone anticipated, hopefully in this case for the better.
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One of the wounded Mara Salvatrucha members told journalists that they had asked to be kept apart from the other gang because "we knew they were going to attack us".
The success also provides encouragement that useable stem cells can be found from other sources apart from the human embryo, which remains controversial.
But it is a sign of the times that they may be stranded, apart from some of their fellows.
But investors have other reasons to be jittery, apart from the debt.
Hogs in the U.S. are primarily raised in large, enclosed buildings on farms that tend to be spaced miles apart from each other.
Auto aficionados tend to be a breed apart from mere motorists.
They understood that most parts of our lives should be set apart, protected from the reach of voters.
Under the proposals, the role of the Minister will be completely removed, apart from where a proposal relates to post-16 education.
This is the first time in video gaming history a development team is going to let pubic see and be apart of a game from start to finish.
You can see why the Treasury might be underwhelmed, quite apart from its innate mistrust of anything emanating from another bit of government that encroaches on its perceived turf.
While NBC has been criticized for shifting the premiere date for this last season and dumping showrunner Dan Harmon, Variety suggests its renewal may be related to something apart from the show.
Who might be watching these transmissions, apart from retirees like Mr Locker ?
Essentially, it will be something that sets it apart from its rivals.
Some sentences may be entirely in English, apart from one phrase in Spanish - or completely in Spanish, with the English connector "so" in the middle.
It may be their budget offering (apart from a few river-facing rooms, it has shared bathrooms), but the art direction is no less obsessive, down to the potted palms in the lobby and a clanky old lift.
There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.
At 72, he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated, apart from Ronald Reagan in his second term.
It offers two useful things that are not to be found in the other book (apart from lots of charts and statistics).
Yes, consumer electronics might be becoming more mobile -- but apart from this inevitable development, there were very few really memorable new products or technologies at CES this year.
While Norton is used to being an on-screen presence, he reveals that his commentary will be unseen as in previous years, apart from a possible in-vision interview with Ewen and Lloyd Webber.
Of course, we're still willing to bet that Apple's legal team is licking their chops in anticipation of something actionable happening, but we'd say the most interesting thing about this so far is the incredible amount of attention a low-cost expandable minitower running OS X has gotten -- maybe someone at Apple apart from the lawyers should be taking notes as well.
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