1.   Such development planning commits the school to improvement and to constructive competition against itself rather than against the neighbouring school.

2.   American Airlines announced recently that it would begin flying twice daily from Kennedy to Oakland and to Ontario, Calif., stepping up the competition against JetBlue.

3.   And some women are planning formal competition against men.

4.   And those totals have not been padded by competition against weak teams.

5.   Air, rail and telephone links that would help citizens move about and foster business are slow in coming because of fear of competition against government monopolies.

6.   But the taste of competition against USC inspired him.

7.   David Venz, an Airbus spokesman, said the European plane maker is winning the competitions against Boeing because its planes have greater commonality, such as similar cockpits.

8.   If the merger is approved, the two companies will combine their engineering resources to try to win the competition against Lockheed Martin.

9.   In Latin American, it offers hope of competition against the explosion of pentecostalism.

10.   In two days of competition against Team New Zealand, the American team has been on the defensive.