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This weekend is smooth for me. I'm looking forward to competing with these guys, getting out there on the floor and competing and trying to raise the game for all of us.

This was a case of competing values. Honesty, fairness, respect, responsibility and compassion, these values drive our actions.

What Petro is competing for are the more moderate Republicans and conservatives who are not as committed on the tax issue.

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

We finished this last season on a high, making the Olympic team and competing at the world championships at home in Canada.

We got a lot of fight. I don't think we are going to be intimidated. I don't think we are going to get caught up. We've got so many kids competing for playing time.

We want to offer customers a choice in TV. By competing with traditional cable TV service, we will expand our network and provide the latest in broadband and video technologies. It's likely that this AT&T network upgrade will spark innovation and investment by other competitors in the market.

We want to ensure that we are competitive in attracting and retaining talent. We're competing very broadly with very large, global companies.

We kind of have the Cincinnati game hanging over us for part of the New Year. Now we can focus on competing and trying to win a conference championship.

With her length, she can definitely be right there. By the time she's a senior, if she keeps working on her game and keeps improving, I could see her competing for a state title, or at least be playing on that level.

We've really had a good second half of the season. Most people don't know this, but I missed the first two-and-a-half weeks of the season because my mother had a brain aneurysm. We used Christmas break as my preseason. We worked hard putting things in. That's when they really started to learn my system. Things started clicking. We started competing and then lately we've learned how to win. Hopefully that will continue.

What everybody needs to understand is Sony is not competing with Microsoft. Sony's competition is with Toshiba.

What an experience for this kid after walking on the team freshman year. Now he's on the U.S. National Team and competing against the best gymnasts in the world.

What Danica did in Indianapolis was spectacular. We absolutely would love to have a female competing in our series and we do have some on the horizon. It's just a question of getting them in the right equipment and getting them experience.

We slipped up in going down at Ulster a week ago ... but that can be a spur to players who need to go out now and prove themselves capable of competing which I think we are.

Tony was competing in a good weight class. It was great for him to dominate like that in the final.

We just wanted to see how we would react competing with the lights on, so to speak, and I'm pleased, but not satisfied. We've got a lot of work to do, but our goal is to be ready for the championship season, not for meets in January.

We weren't really over that loss when we came back. We needed to start competing better and do the things we need to do to win.

We were really excited about his semifinal performance. His experience of competing against some of the best runners in the world was good for him. That will set him up to do well at the conference and national championships.

We were looking at the Chicago Marathon, but a conflict arose with the date, and New York seems to fit our schedule better. I've been training some, but I wouldn't call it serious. It's just something to fill a void in my life after I quit competing as a professional cyclist.

We went down tonight but we played for 32 minutes. You'd think that playing hard and competing is something that they should be able to do, but it's something that they've got to learn.

We intend on competing with the values of a world-class university.

We implemented the testing so that we could set forth a level playing field for the horsemen and the wagering public and a safe environment for the competing horses and the overall integrity of the sport.

We're going to try to knock off a little rust with a high quality meet with good competition like (University of) Alabama and Brigham Young University. We don't have enough people to run the women's distance relay and we have issues with kids competing in more than one event being so close to each other they might get tired out.

We're going to adjust. We're going to tell our kids ... it's a new opportunity. We'll be competing with schools we're not used to dealing with. We will definitely take this as a win-win situation. We're not going to take it with sour grapes.

We're very aware of the situation. We need to jump on teams who are tired from playing the night before. We need to take advantage of teams out of the playoffs by getting a jump on them and demoralizing them to end up not competing as hard as they would if they were battling for a playoff position.

This one is a huge monkey off our back, competing against a district rival and getting a win. And then just getting a win in general in a very tough district we're back in the race.

This new initiative at the U.S. Open reinforces our outgoing commitment to recognize the talents of those competing in wheelchair tennis at the highest levels.

There has always been a certain fascination with celebrity but with today's proliferation of outlets that seem to be competing for the same photos and stories, it has reached a point that seems completely insane.

We are still hanging in there, competing and finishing to the end.

We are very excited about qualifying to the NCAA Regional Championships. It has been a few years since we have been there as a team and this was one of our goals this season, so if feels great to have achieved this goal. Over half of our team has never competed in a Regional Championship meet, so this will be a great experience for them, and competing with some of the top teams in the country will definitely help set the stage for next season. Anything can happen on any given night. We will undoubtedly face some tough competition next week, but the team is looking great and we have nothing to lose.

We did a great job competing at the plate. ... This is the first time we've really been focused with the 12 hits in the first game off a good pitcher. We just need to keep battling and putting good quality at bats up.

We went into this past week thinking that we will be competing against some of the top teams in the nation. But we managed to stay focused and played some of our best tennis this season, which has helped us to remain undefeated.

We want Chad to be the quarterback, but Chad knows he's going to be competing for the job. He's been told that, he understands that. That's going to make him better and whoever comes in here, that's going to make him better.

We have developed and improved as the season has gone along. This is another opportunity for us, and we are looking forward to competing in the Big Ten Championship.

We have depth and a balance of experienced players competing for playing time. We have upped the competitive level of everyone else out there.

Both gas and electricity markets are still largely national. (Incumbents) seem to have limited interest in going out and competing in their neighbors' territory.

Boomer is one of the best pitchers to play in this game, ever. It's going to be good to have him back out there and competing and having him get guys off-balance --going out there and just doing what Boomer does well.

Britain has come on tenfold, but to be selfish about it we're all Scottish at the moment. It's about us. We'll go back to the British thing in a bit, but for the moment we've got to take all the praise and all the success for Scotland until we go back to competing for Britain because we don't get to compete for Scotland very often. We want to make the most of it, so I'm not having any of the limelight taken away by Britain at the moment, to be honest.

Even though she was unable to medal at the Regional Championships it was quite an accomplishment for her to make the Regional Team in her first year competing at this level. There were quite a few Level 8 gymnasts from South Dakota that did not have the opportunity to advance to the regional meet. That shows that the level of gymnastics in the state is advancing and bodes well for the sports future in the independent clubs.

Either we have it or we don't find ourselves competing in the national convention market.

Everybody's trying to get folks to come to their town, and you've got to get them to look at you first. This may get them to look when you're basically competing with the entire world for that tourism dollar.

Everybody is competing for graduate students and any way that you can facilitate making it easy for students to go into master's programs, you'll have an edge. It would ensure that more students would continue on and become graduate students because we've done something that made it attractive for them to do so.

Everybody we have competing has a chance to do something. I'm excited about the group we've got.

Everyone wants to get into those conversations, ... but the biggest thing for our team is to keep competing and fighting the way we have. ... What we need to do, obviously, is to go win a football game.

Every smoking referendum I've ever polled has passed and I don't think Nevada is any different. What's unique about Nevada is that there is controversy in having two competing smoking initiatives.

As soon as the opportunity opened up and I knew I was getting a shot, I was jumping on it. The opportunity to be competing for a job in the NFL without an established veteran being in front of you, you can't ask for more.

At this point there are several competing hypotheses for his illness, ... In other words, West Nile is not the only possibility.

At this point in the season, you want to make sure you're competing and that you're fighting for everything and that you're not allowing anything easy. We're making teams work.

At the time, seven feet didn't seem like a big deal because I was too wrapped up in competing to be able to look at what it meant. I had done it in practice indoors and out. Other people had done it outdoors in competition, too.

At this level, we're mainly competing to get personal bests. We stress personal bests and it's really what our athletes are searching for at these events. These kids are just always trying to improve and the states are a nice reward and the New England championships are another nice reward.

Community college marketing is highly challenging. We need to reach diverse audiences and make them aware of the high quality programs and services we offer to individuals, businesses and the community. It is impressive to see that our district and college professionals have performed so well competing with their peers in our seven-state region and also across the country.

Customers transferring over to us would have to take one of our price plans, and those are different. It's unlikely that any carrier involved will offer the same price points and service plans WorldCom originally offered. WorldCom, after all, was competing with us. Basic structure might be the same, but some elements will be different.

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.

Essentially, all of these competing plans that were headed for the June ballot were very popular.

Ernst & Young truly understands that effectively managing global enterprise performance through learning is the key to competing in today's global markets. To be named among the very best of world-class training companies for the fifth year in a row is an honor. We congratulate Ernst & Young LLP and the many other organizations that have been recognized as training leaders.

First of all, there are more schools, more 5A programs in Texas. Consequently, when a young coach is looking for a job, he finds more opportunity, and when you compete, you're going to be competing against the best, ... The second thing is money. We certainly pay our people more over here than they do in Louisiana.

Far from being a serious bid to build an Asian-Pacific colossus, the bid is a crude maneuver to stop Patrick competing with Toll in Australia. Patrick doesn't need Toll.

Ferrer can't even get heard competing against this grotesque spending.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

There's room for the brand to expand beyond where we're competing now.

There was a fine line of what the developer could live with in order to get permanent financing for the project. One of the things you worry about is you don't want to put something on your development that's a competing project with something else on your property. You also don't want to have an overlap of amenities.

There's a difference between going out to practice and punting, and getting in a game and punting. He has to get the ball off, he's got a live rush, he's got guys coming at him, and I'm trying to work on his mindset. I'm trying to get him to where he's competing against New Mexico State when he gets a snap, and he's not just going out and going through the motions.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

There's no sense competing for existing union members - we have to ask the question, why has union membership dropped to seven million from 11 million in this country.

There's no bad blood between anybody, it was just guys competing and wanting to make each other better.

There's just such a mass of hotels that just want to give the service away for free. When that's what you're competing against, it just gets harder.

There's just dozens and dozens of banks competing in the market.

There's not too many people who could go up to their sponsors and ask them if they can take a year off of competing and just go for a good (film) segment. Thank God that I've got good relationships and I've kind of proved that I should be able to do what I want to do. They think whatever I'm going to be doing, it's going to be progressing the sport, and that's all I'm out there to do.

There's nothing to hold us back from competing here. The technology has moved forward.

There's nothing like competing in front of a home crowd and they're absolutely incredible suits.

I still enjoy competing in the biggest races on the best horses on the biggest days. But to get to those days, there are a lot of routine days, and I just didn't feel the passion I should have felt.

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

It would have seemed practical to play the two Hawaiian events like most guys competing this week but I am restricted to 10 and that's why I have had to say 'no'.

It would be huge to beat them. We beat them last year for the first time in 30 years. We'll be happy if we get close, but we know we're capable of competing with them. We aren't scared to play anybody.

Things like generators, ignition coils and basic brake components do not fall into Delphi's picture because there are so many suppliers competing on price out there it's unlikely you can gain any kind of a competitive advantage.

They also know they are competing for a job, they are competing for a livelihood, ... We want to do everything within the rules, but we also want our people to play with intensity and competitiveness and the proper desire and determination to make the team.

They all played really well and are just competing hard that is all we can ask.

The work that has been done so far is not considered to be wasted work, because that work will go into the information that's provided to the competing firms.

The rivalry among Optus and Telstra in Australia for business and residential customers has been intense. Competing against two powerful and much larger scale businesses has always been difficult. This is a reflection of that being put into earnings.

The scores will always fluctuate depending on the judging panels and we had some balance issues tonight. But we fought through them and that was great to see. We've been training like we are competing and that's great. We focused tonight on one event at a time, one routine at a time.

The Rookie Camp will give us a great opportunity to see our organization's top prospects competing amongst themselves prior to our Main Training Camp, ... These players are the future of our organization and several will have a chance to compete for positions on the Rangers in the very near future, including the upcoming season.

I've noticed there seems to be fewer people in the parking lots (of competing stores).

It would be like competing with one arm tied behind our back.

It was unbelievable. In terms of two teams competing it's the best game I have ever seen.

These quarterbacks that are going to be competing throughout summer camp and there's no way to know how it will work out. It's fun to see that competition and see them both getting better. Both guys can operate in the pocket and outside the pocket. The only difference is that Joe has been under center 11 times before (at Nebraska).

The SSG gives Juniper a high performance and highly flexible platform to challenge competitors in the security/unified threat management market, while opening up opportunities to compete for business in branch office environments where customers are revisiting the concept of converged data and security, competing head-to-head with Cisco's Integrated Services Routers.

The sport has pretty much taken over my life. I love it because you're not competing with anyone but yourself.

The spirit to strive for greatness, and the unwavering support of athletes of all ability levels, allowing them to fulfill their dreams, whether that's just getting started in the sport or competing on the international stage, is truly what makes this community unique and sets Steamboat apart from any other place in the world.

The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.

The thing to think about is, 'What coverage do you want?' ... These plans are clearly competing very hard for your business.

The things we are really doing this year is fighting hard and competing well. As long as we continue to compete, scrap, fight and support each other, I think this team can find ways to win.

I've never been one to quit and I'm not about to quit now. I'll keep competing and preparing as if I was the starter.

I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

I've always considered it a privilege to serve the Canadian Olympic team in a leadership capacity. I look forward to working closely with the Canadian Olympic Committee over the next two years as we strive to provide optimum support for Canada's athletes and coaches competing in Beijing.

I wanted to do something special for my last night competing at Oviedo in a dual meet. Once I found the Ghostbusters backpack, I knew it would be perfect.

Sometimes you bypass a really good fencer in favor of someone who is average and is going to come here and give me the time and effort. You can have an Olympian who's never going to fence in college meets. They're going to be at World Cups while we're competing for the Ivy League Championship. That person's no good to me.

Terrestrial radio broadcasters are competing with not just satellite radio but with other consumer technologies. They are retrenching and starting to make some changes.

Telecom stocks should get plenty of attention on Wall Street. BellSouth could get a competing bid and we're probably going to see more deals as consolidation in the telecom industry continues.

Seeing women and men playing together and competing together begs the question: What do we value as a culture?