21.   But at least a lot of players have sampled international competition at their own level and that can only be good for the game.

22.   MARTIAL arts expert Tony Carter beat international competition to win the top prize in a prestigious contest in Sweden.

23.   Bill Askew, of Thornbury Rise, Darlington, was secretary of the Carol Andrews singers, a successful mixed choir which has taken part in international competitions.

24.   Meanwhile, Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston.

25.   Mr Aitken said that Ferranti had beaten impressive international competition for the contract.

26.   His departure comes at a time when GEC Ferranti is enjoying considerable success in securing major contracts in the face of stiff international competition.

27.   Increased international competition almost certainly contributed to holding down profit margins.

28.   For profitability appears to have fallen just as fast outside manufacturing, where the pressure of international competition must have been negligible.

29.   Forces working to equalize profit rates could hardly have transmitted the effects of international competition to these insulated sectors in such a short space of time.

30.   But international competition was not always binding.