Defenders of Standard Oil insist that the company did not restrain trade; they were simply superior competitors.

That is, with inverse ranking of competitive and colonizing abilities, plants can coexist in space and time as disturbance removes superior competitors from patches, allowing for establishment of superior colonizers.

In these assays, performance was quantified by directly competing the evolved genotypes with the ancestors, and in nearly every case the evolved genotype was the superior competitor.

Parasites can function like keystone species, reducing the dominance of superior competitors and allowing competing species to co-exist.

This superior competitor will out-compete the other with more efficient use of the limiting resource.

It will be excluded from the area and replaced by the superior competitor.

Given that most of their traffic comes from us if we build adequate if not superior competitors, I think we ought to be able to match them if not exceed them.

Amotz Zahavi has developed this thinking in what is known as the Handicap Principle, where superior competitors signal their superiority by a costly display.

For example: The Short Run (Early 2000s) Biological species almost never survive encounters with superior competitors.

In other words - because of AT&T's 90 million long-distance customers, $5 billion in annual operating profit and ubiquitous brand name - it cannot help but be a superior competitor.