Card companies have been cutting interest rates to attract new business as competition intensifies. |
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This intensifies the competition among workers trying to get work, and lowers wages. |
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So, competition intensifies even before the next serious phase of education comes in. |
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As he discusses individual musicians, he illustrates how art intensifies human experiences and how music evokes powerful emotions and memories. |
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A new survey shows that banks are being forced to cut the margins they earn on loans as competition for customers intensifies. |
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Though marked pianissimo and dolce, Piano I intensifies the accompaniment of the bell effects. |
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Bolstering that view, simple models of the heliosphere require that the magnetic field intensifies in regions where the solar wind slows. |
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As competition among companies intensifies, firms adopt aggressive marketing strategies to attract patients. |
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The second stanza extends both the interrogatory mode and intensifies the language contrapuntal to the traditional imagery. |
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So by claiming to shun public attention he evades confrontations and intensifies public curiosity. |
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We use cast iron teapots on trivets, and this both intensifies the unique flavors and creates an atmospheric experience. |
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This situation intensifies in the winter when house plants are looking for good warm homes. |
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The more you chew, the more the taste intensifies, eventually overpowering the other ingredients. |
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As pressure on the party intensifies, it increasingly cuddles up to politically reactionary forces both at home and abroad. |
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One of the factors that intensifies the excitement and tension of an adulterous affair is the danger of being caught. |
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But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity. |
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Gilman's heroine, Dana, is a 38-year-old New York artist in a slough of depression which intensifies when her latest exhibition bombs. |
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As commercial development intensifies in the inner city, residential developments tend to mushroom in the outer areas. |
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Butler's futurism similarly intensifies the contradictions of modern society. |
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Some males sire many offspring, and many males sire no offspring, a dynamic that intensifies male-male competition. |
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The second piece, marked Scherzo, intensifies the mournfulness into anguish and panic. |
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Peter Gabriel's world sound intensifies the atmosphere of generic primitivism, although bowls and other props identify the setting as Africa. |
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Piano I intensifies the accompaniment of the bell effects by passing from quadruplet sixteenth to triplet sixteenth. |
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It prolongs and intensifies the trauma already experienced by children who have little or no control over their destinies. |
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The job destruction is continuing as the process of corporate restructuring intensifies. |
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As the competition intensifies to excel in information technology, the division will likely widen. |
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The sauce is mouth-fillingly savory, dotted with crispy guanciale that intensifies the meatiness. |
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Our introduction to Catherine, her frail beauty and desperately clingy sexual come-ons to Wolf, only intensifies our sense that something's desperately wrong at the chateau. |
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And the discouragement of games in public places intensifies the problem. |
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And Narraway's forbidden love for her intensifies the thrill of this daring escapade. |
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The high percentage of minerals and vitamin E intensifies this oil's revivifying process and suits all skin types. |
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This plague greatly intensifies the sufferings of impenitent men, as it increases the strength of the sun, and makes it more scorching. |
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The more the action intensifies, more the camera closes into the bodies and pirouettes around them. |
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Rather than slow down the reading pace, the sound shape of the poem intensifies the oral density of each line, somehow nearly erasing the line breaks. |
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In dark rooms, it's evanescent, in large rooms it instills warmth and in sun-filled rooms it intensifies the light. |
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The sooner Romney gets out there as a candidate on the hustings, the sooner the media scrutiny intensifies. |
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The drought that impoverishes the remotest African village intensifies the threat hanging over Moscow or New York. |
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This luminosity intensifies the colour and shine of objects both in the external world and in the inner world. |
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Regular feeding intensifies coloration and has a beneficial effect on the moulting process. |
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Aldosterone intensifies this effect by increasing sodium re-absorption and decreasing water excretion. |
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Scratching the skin reason vasoconstriction and intensifies pruritus, resulting in erythematous, weeping lesions. |
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It intensifies our emotional and physical bodies and overwhelms our nervous system. |
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Her heady, hypnotic drumming intensifies both the mood and pace. |
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Before serving wine at the table, let it breathe because the contact with the oxygen awakens and intensifies its flavour. |
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That intensifies the risk of an escalating capital-control war as each country tries to ward off flows that have been deflected by others. |
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The government guarantees more debts, expands its regulatory reach, and intensifies asset regulation. |
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Soil, once eroded, tends to be more susceptible to further erosion, and thus the cycle intensifies. |
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Wild salmon transmits the parasite to farm salmon, where the population intensifies. |
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This announcement comes as Vietnam intensifies a crackdown on writers and journalists who have criticized Communist Party policies online. |
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It also intensifies women's risk of poverty, especially in families with single parents. |
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As every hour passes, the threat to the life and well-being of Gilad Shalit intensifies, and the urgency of action to end this crisis grows. |
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This soft eyebrow pencil is easy to use, intensifies the natural colour of the brows and is particularly long-lasting. |
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Globalisation intensifies trade in goods and services, international investment and the free movement of capital. |
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We make every efforts to effectively prevent the spread of extremist ideology that intensifies hatred and promotes violence. |
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The population of Mauritania is very young, a fact which intensifies the need to address the issue of education. |
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Fatigue, sun, wind and the motion of the boat dull the senses and alcohol intensifies these effects. |
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As international competition intensifies and borders continue to be opened up, we have to be fit to face the future. |
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In 2010, the down cycle in residential intensifies and labour market conditions become balanced. |
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You know, as we got closer to the end and ready to do it, the scrutiny intensifies and the conversations with the network happen. |
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And Demme, by barely indicating the visual presence of the audience until the end, intensifies the closed-off, hermetic feeling. |
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Indeed, in conflict situations the rhetoric around honor often intensifies. |
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The Full Moon, Friday, intensifies the need for intimacy to near desperation. |
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As the Israel-Palestine conflict drags on, it blocks the resolution of urgent crises and intensifies looming threats to the West. |
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Wroth highlights and intensifies the complex, highly-structured nature of the corona by composing it of fourteen sonnets, mirroring the fourteen lines of the sonnet itself. |
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As global competition intensifies in the knowledge era, rival businesses may increasingly try to steal intellectual property through industrial espionage to maintain an edge. |
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High-definition live streams, multimedia downloads or online games: the growth of information and data volumes in the Internet continues unabated as its use intensifies. |
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The Joint Committee anticipates that as work in respect of the June 2002 actuarial report intensifies it will seek an order from the Court for further payment to Eckler Partners. |
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As the hostility intensifies, you might feel frustrated by your incorporeality — your inability to prevent the conflict from reaching its inevitable conclusion. |
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In the psychiatric tradition, frustration heightens suggestibility, generates fantasy, brings about regressions and fixations, and intensifies drives toward wish fulfillment so that normal inhibitions are overcome. |
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The association of HIV with already-stigmatized groups and practices intensifies these pre-existing inequalities, reinforcing the production and reproduction of inequitable power relations. |
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So much of the former Soviet Union feels depopulated and abandoned compared with the west, but near the Chernobyl zone that feeling gradually intensifies. |
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The practice of self-mortification, which intensifies or stabilizes the austerities required of the monastic, is found in all monastic traditions. |
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The second is that it intensifies the fight against moonlighting, in particular by introducing financial and criminal penalties for employers of illegal immigrants. |
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Alcohol greatly intensifies the depressant effect of barbiturates, and in the 1950s and '60s, barbiturates taken with alcohol became a common agent in suicide cases. |
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It is important to stay far away from the ends of the tanks and immediately withdraw if the whistling of the venting safety devices intensifies or if the tanks change colour. |
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Rancio: Term qualifying the very drinkable flavour of a Cognac as it ages in oak barrels. This flavour intensifies with time and gives the Cognac a fuller, fattier character. |
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An arrangement that increases complexity and intensifies the difficulties of making the enlarged European Union work well would hardly be likely to attract understanding or support in either parliaments or plebiscites. |
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As the internal armed conflict intensifies, and as efforts at peacebuilding lurch backwards and forwards at a snail's pace, indigenous peoples are trapped by this multi-faceted confrontation in many areas of rural Colombia. |
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The atmosphere we have described produces a certain degree of pedagogical tiredness, which intensifies the ever increasing difficulty of conciliating the role of the teacher with that of the educator in today's context. |
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It takes about 15 minutes for the first run on the uncrowded streets, 18 minutes as traffic intensifies. |
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However, sooner or later our new higher-value products find themselves sharing the market with competing products and, as competition among these new products intensifies, prices come under strong downward pressure. |
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Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomacy is in the limelight as the world's confrontation with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program intensifies. |
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Eventually, this hollow may become large enough that glacial erosion intensifies. |
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This condition, known as causalgia, intensifies with an increase in temperature. |
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As the war between the states intensifies, more and more money flows from state treasuries to the profit lines of the companies. |
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The discomfiture, perhaps even revulsion, in the Shah of Iran's eyes, when I asked him if there was torture in Iran, intensifies as I ask the question three times, implicitly not accepting his answers. |
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It intensifies the action of anticancer agents such as Taxol, by helping the transfer of the agent through the cell membrane and by preventing its elimination from the cell. |
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Accelerating technological discontinuity as well as shorter technology cycles inevitably intensifies competition. |
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As global competition intensifies in the knowledge era, businesses may increasingly target intellectual property of rivals through industrial espionage to maintain a competitive edge. |
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Yet the gregariousness of the web only intensifies his solitude. |
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Weakness in demand in the market intensifies the competitive environment. |
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The situation of these companies will risk deteriorating even further and many companies in this group may even be going out of business as competition intensifies. |
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An ambient music that intensifies crescendo its experimentations, resulting in an impressive sonic orgy, a cathedral of apocalyptic and desperate sounds. |
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It delivers slam-bang thrills and a few sparkling one-liners as rivalry between the two intensifies. |
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What emerges from this tasting is that the addition of organic or complex nitrogen intensifies the aroma sensations generally judged positive: red berries, jammy and spicy perfume. |
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With each new discovery, the mystery gets deeper and the controversy intensifies between scientists, musicians, mathematicians, sceptics and hoaxers. |
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The development returns to and intensifies the puzzling, daring starkness of the opening harmonies, and then dissolve into a recapitulation in the subdominant rather than the usual tonic home key. |
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Since absorption is cumulative, the color effect intensifies with increasing thickness or if internal reflections cause the light to take a longer path through the ice. |
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In my little hamlet along the Schoharie, summertime visitors clamber over rocks to float in the dwindling swimming holes, which shrink as the summer heat intensifies. |
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But now the spooky campaign intensifies as everyone receives a dead bird, neatly posted through their doors in a Jiffy bag, with the usual message. |
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