But on the other hand, a degree of cooperation too is visible, as they are increasingly confronting bigger players in the global oil market.
The study highlights difficult choices that will increasingly confront an aging society.
That is the question increasingly confronting the creators of musical theater.
The controversy comes at a time when the Catholic Church nationally finds itself increasingly confronting issues of race.
The complicated task of mounting a circumstantial case to declare a crime was increasingly confronted.
Within the state itself, as we have seen, scientific and technical experts were increasingly confronted by a hostile cadre of lay civil servants.
Citizens in EU countries are increasingly confronted with the harmful effects of road transport on the environment.
That is an issue increasingly confronting color experts as the worlds of photography, printing and electronic displays become more closely linked together.
Online retailers say they are increasingly confronted with shoppers less interested in buying a particular item than in shopping for a lifestyle.
Scientists studying the planet's stressed-out rain forests, rivers, reefs, deserts and islands are increasingly confronting a new kind of species - the living dead.
