1.   The phone company was broken up to encourage competition.

2.   We will encourage greater competition in the banking sector.

3.   This approach was conceived as being designed to encourage non-price competition.

4.   Although the recently enacted Telecommunications Reform Act is silent on Internet phone service, it does direct the FCC to create policies that encourage competition and dismantle regulations.

5.   And many legal, software and consumer experts are divided whether a breakup would encourage real competition.

6.   And, the agency says, its aim is to foster the commercialization of the space launch business and to encourage competition.

7.   Antitrust laws were designed by Congress and implemented by the courts to encourage competition and protect consumers from paying unwarranted prices for their milk or VCRs.

8.   Another is a desire to encourage competition.

9.   Another wartime president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, encouraged internal competition and often pitted advisers against one another in search of the best options.

10.   Because deregulation also will encourage competition, Japan probably will see more failures of small banks and even of large banks, Nemoto said.