| 单词 | competing |
| 释义 | competing (kəmpiːtɪŋ ) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Competing ideas, requirements, or interests cannot all be right or satisfied at the same time. They talked about the competing theories of the origin of life. ...the competing interests of beach development and sea turtle protection. ...the competing demands of work and family. 2. See also compete Collocations: competing demands Despite wielding absolute power, the king must balance the competing demands of numerous rival parties. Times, Sunday Times They have been raised on a diet of personalisation and have more competing demands on their attention than ever before. Times,Sunday Times But in other people's gardens, we are not preoccupied by maintenance or fraught with competing demands and duties. Times, Sunday Times One said that there would be competing demands for extra cash for students, with further education colleges facing drastic cuts in the latest austerity round. Times, Sunday Times Having been working on the project since the summer, they're now in the thick of meeting competing demands for music. Times, Sunday Times Cabinets were constituted not by the free choice of the prime minister, but according to the strengths of the party's competing factions. Times, Sunday Times Diplomatic efforts are also underway to restart negotiations between competing factions before ground troops are dispatched. Times, Sunday Times He alone was the arbiter between competing factions and individuals. The Times Literary Supplement He described the problem he faced with two competing factions: the orchestras wanted a longer reverberation period, the chamber music people a shorter one. Times, Sunday Times A strong government was required to serve as the arbiter among competing factions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The statement signals the start of what could become a proxy war as both sides rush to help, and perhaps arm, competing forces. Times, Sunday Times He describes a world in which the police and the political parties and militias are separate and competing forces. Times, Sunday Times In between these two competing forces are the players. Times, Sunday Times The ordinary push and pull of competing forces in a democratic society? Christianity Today Such a cable would be kept under tension by the competing forces of gravity and outward centrifugal acceleration. Times, Sunday Times However, there are competing interest groups. Times, Sunday Times Information and debate no longer are part of a search for truth, but rather, a process of advocacy, which frames the issue in terms of competing interest groups. Christianity Today It won't be some benevolent financial oligarchy doing the nudging, but competing interest groups. Times, Sunday Times The measure reflected the conscious and deliberate assessment by the government of the appropriate balance between the competing interest groups. Times, Sunday Times By playing nationalities off one another, the government ensured the monarchy's central role in holding together competing interest groups in an era of rapid change. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It will be interesting whether public support will sustain - there are always limited funds and competing needs. The Sun He managed the competing needs and abilities of our group admirably. Times, Sunday Times In working together for so many years with competing needs and the pressures of schedule, there were bound to be moments that were tense and testy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This broad field has applications in robotics, especially unmanned aerial vehicles because of the competing needs for autonomy and a lightweight control system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In applying this rule, courts balance the neighbors' competing needs, the feasibility of more appropriate methods of drainage, and the comparative severity of injuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our claims can be tested against those of competing priorities. Times, Sunday Times Some 70 per cent of nurses said that a lack of time, training and competing priorities were to blame. Times, Sunday Times Government scientists have become increasingly vocal in their insistence that weighing up competing priorities can only be a political decision. Times,Sunday Times They tend to be more flexible and pragmatic when faced with competing priorities, ensuring that the family's basic needs are met first. Times, Sunday Times About the allocation of limited resources between competing priorities. Times, Sunday Times They claimed he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The competing product was originally to be nearly identical to the original, save a few cosmetic changes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thus, the consumer has the option of purchasing a competing product, or forgoing the purchase altogether. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many products employ design-life as one factor of their differentiation from competing products and components. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In contrast, some competing products attempt to lock their customers into a single platform. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are two competing theories, involving eggs and good manners. Times, Sunday Times Our competing theories - relativity, quantum mechanics, the holographic universe - have all tried to explain them, and so far none has done it convincingly. Times,Sunday Times Spending in other states indicated competing theories of what the election's battlegrounds actually were. Times,Sunday Times This documentary looks at the competing theories of evolution and how the naturalist triumphed against the odds - the survival of the fittest, so to speak. Times, Sunday Times While studies of large families might provide the best test-bed for competing theories, they are, in some respects, the worst. Times, Sunday Times There are several competing versions of what happened. Times, Sunday Times There are also competing versions of the legend. Times, Sunday Times It was a time of plots, counterplots and competing versions of the truth. Times, Sunday Times In recent days, the actions of one cricketer and the words of another have provided excellent examples of two competing versions of masculinity. Times, Sunday Times But the cast pay each other an intense degree of attention as they offer competing versions of what really happened and how it defines them now. Times, Sunday Times At least they can't complain that they don't have a clear choice between competing visions. Times, Sunday Times More recently, though, the same may be true of competing visions. The Times Literary Supplement Since the second world war at least, elections have focused on competing visions of future growth. Times, Sunday Times The success or failure of these competing visions will do much to determine the patient experience of the genetic age, and whether directto-consumer genomics becomes more than a passing phase. Times, Sunday Times There are two competing visions. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 相抗衡的 Japanese: 相容れない |
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