When we're not hiding from domestic competition, we're trying to shield ourselves from the foreign variety.
Some domestic competition might inspire unions to find all sorts of imaginative workplace efficiencies.
In effect, part of domestic competition policy has been subsumed into world trade rules.
The airline never made a net profit, beset by cutthroat domestic competition, high fuel prices and costly airport fees.
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Meanwhile, back at home, the Dhaka Premier League Bangladesh's premier domestic competition has been delayed, perhaps indefinitely, by a mixture of logistics and politics.
That puts United ahead of the domestic competition for the time being.
This government deserves credit for responding to the public's dissatisfaction with corruption, lack of domestic competition and repressive laws left over from the colonial period.
They must be prepared to discuss welfare-enhancing domestic competition (antitrust) rules.
But ECB chairman Giles Clarke cited South Africa's domestic competition - which features a 45-overs a side tournament - as a working model for international success.
Being dumped out of the League Cup, the country's third most important domestic competition, by a Bradford side in the bottom rung of English football, was humiliating.
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Perez has given Pellegrini his public backing, however, saying the coach would see out the season regardless of the team's performance in both domestic competition and in Europe.
The threat of a widespread bird flu contagion comes as profits of Chinese airlines are already under pressure due to softening demand for air travel and intensifying domestic competition.
When Morgan squared up to Tomlinson at the opening domestic competition of the season at Loughborough back in April, he lost out to the newly acclaimed British record holder.
In any case, the threat that Brazilian mergers poses to domestic competition in many industries ought to be enough to rule them out, whether they benefit companies or not.
The best forum is the World Trade Organisation, which is increasingly hearing that national policies not only stifle domestic competition, but keep out imports and foreign investment as well.
The last time Walter Smith's side lost in domestic competition at Ibrox was when David Murphy scored for Hibs in the Easter Road side's 1-0 win in October last year.
The relatively well-rested and fit South Koreans, Americans and Turks, most of whose players play their club football in domestic competition or for second-tier European teams, were big beneficiaries of this.
In residual value retention, ALG rates Genesis' 36-month residual value higher than both its Asian and domestic competition, while Equus residual values exceed its well-established European competitors after three years of ownership.
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Super 14 Rugby in the Southern Hemisphere has been trialling the ELVs for the last year and now the Guinness Premiership is set to adopt some of these laws in domestic competition.
Inter has already been punished in domestic competition after the Italian football authorities found its fans guilty of racially abusing former players Mario Balotelli and Sulley Muntari, who now play for fierce rival AC Milan.
The filing of this case was a tactical maneuver by one group of domestic producers that seeks to exploit the gaping loopholes of the antidumping law to get a leg up on its domestic competition.
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More profound than the foreign threat, according to Sheng Hong, a reformist economist at the Unirule Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, would be the opening of Chinese banking to domestic competition, through interest-rate liberalisation.
So while the Spanish teams went back to work in early January, the Bundesliga players were just rousing from a long Christmas break to head to a restorative in-season training camp, away from the distractions of home and domestic competition.
In the English FA Cup , arguably the most famous domestic knockout competition in world club football, Premier League giant Liverpool was given a scare by fifth tier side Mansfield.
Real sits 11 points behind league leader and arch rival Barcelona in the title race, while it faces city neighbor Atletico Madrid in the final of the Copa del Rey, the country's top domestic cup competition.
The FA Cup may be the soccer world's oldest and most prestigious domestic cup competition it dates back to 1872 but in recent years some relegation-threatened English clubs have treated it as something between a nuisance and a distraction.
Companies, meanwhile, have been focused on paying down debt, as well as coping with deflation in the domestic economy and competition from cut-price imports.
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Regulators want to safeguard the strength and soundness of the banks they supervise, so they tend to shield them from the full force of domestic or external competition.
Last weekend's Air New Zealand Cup final between Canterbury and Wellington, the climax of the country's top domestic rugby union competition, saw just 12, 000 fans turn up at the 40, 000 capacity AMI Arena in Christchurch.
The 23-year-old winger, who set the record for the most tries scored in a season in South Africa's domestic Currie Cup competition this year, won the third of his four caps in the 23-21 win against Ireland.
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