competing demand

collocation in English

meaningsofcompeteanddemand

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compete
verb[I]
uk
/kəmˈpiːt/us
/kəmˈpiːt/
to try to be more successful than someone or ...
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demand
noun
uk
/dɪˈmɑːnd/us
/dɪˈmænd/
a ...
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(Definition ofcompeteanddemandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The need to help older parents may be acompetingdemandthat influences the help provided to the children in late midlife.
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That is the background, and it is a background ofcompetingdemandagainst which the increased supplies last year to the shipbuilding industry must be judged.
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Competing demands for manpower created considerable friction between the army and arsenals.
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Competing demands that rendered the study a low priority were also reported.
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Competing demands in psychosocial care.
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It was not a university and hence did not have to confront competing demands for services unrelated to research.
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The tragic situation is played out in the competing demands of love and duty.
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The 1966 reorganization further created competing demands for the river waters.
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French military planners had to balance competing demands for the 1781 campaign.
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Conflicts between tribes generally arose from competition for good grazing land, or from the competing demands of nomadic and sedentary tribes on the environment.
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At a minimum, it seeks community consensus for proposed allocations of scarce resources among competing demands.
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Eawag research projects develop integrated approaches and put specific emphasis on strategies to meet energy concerns in the context of trade-offs and competing demands.
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Even the roles linked to a single status can make competing demands on us.
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All of the armies encountered growing manpower shortages, caused by the need to replace the losses of 1916 and by the competing demands for labour of civilian industry and agriculture.
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Ideally, water resource management planning has regard to all the competing demands for water and seeks to allocate water on an equitable basis to satisfy all uses and demands.
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