1.  Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.

2.  Allegations of improprieties against Anderson were made in a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by a lawyer representing a competing gaming company.

3.  Balance is the skill you have to master in order to engage a competing company and survive.

4.  Because the industry is highly regulated, premiums charged by competing companies are identical.

5.  Because they can operate like a single unit instead of competing companies, the baseball owners can threaten to bring in replacement players to spring training.

6.  BMG has agreed to use digital-rights management tools made by several competing companies instead of betting on one.

7.  A multitude of competing companies have sprung up in the area, although their technologies differ only slightly.

8.  A publisher at a competing company disagreed.

9.  Active executives of competing companies are never considered for board seats, so outside directors generally must come from outside the industry, not just outside the company.

10.  Although competing companies can seek to create similar products or processes without violating a patent, doing so is often a difficult task.