They don't need to be exposed to the pressures of rigorous top-flight competition in their first year.

There are advocates of an unrestricted religious marketplace who argue that rigorous competition makes faith stronger, not weaker.

After two years on the professional circuit, he began training for the more rigorous Olympic-style competitions.

A Selectica spokeswoman said her company was chosen from a pool of 30 competitors after a rigorous competition that lasted almost a year.

It's frightening to think that many of them may have no business engaging in rigorous competition, but don't know it.

The industry is not affected by changes in consumer tastes or by rigorous competition.

Pioneering the Internet market and facing rigorous competition will mean a hard job for Amazon.com, he said.

After a rigorous competition, 500 recent college graduates won places out of a field of 2,500 applicants.

She instituted a rigorous competition that resulted in Columbia's first racially integrated squad.

But, by reducing the rigorous competition that innovation requires, the Administration's proposal discourages this invaluable process.