Sentences with word «rivalrous»

They are timeless tales of rivalrous co-wives, patriarchal society, and old religions challenged by Islamic and Christian incursions; they are modern stories of European - owned mining companies, the repressive influence of mission schools, corrupt elections, and the postcolonial African elite.

Facebook's relationship with Tencent is perhaps the most rivalrous.

Why would the older child continue to be contemptuous or feel rivalrous toward a younger sibling when the older child sees the younger sibling as the reason he or she is receiving affection, attention, and recognition from their parents?

One week, Max's slick, rivalrous brother, investment banker Brooks (Kyle Chandler), whom Max hasn't seen in a year, invites the gang, this time Ryan inviting along smart co-worker Sarah (Sharon Horgan), over to his bachelor pad for a «game night to remember.»

In operation, choice makes education rivalrous.

Some of the main divisions of variously rivalrous perspective include: eBooks vs. print, Online bookselling vs. bricks and mortar, Apps vs. ebooks, and immersive ebooks vs. enhanced, Traditional publishing vs. self - publishing for authors,... Read More

(And as the economist Robert Frank argues, taxing consumption to bring down rivalrous buying of Ferraris and other symbols of superiority would make us better off even without moderating our desires, though I doubt that rivalrous consumption is a very long - lasting or very important feature of high capitalist economies; notice, for example, that it's always those other, silly people, not we, who are buying to keep up with the Joneses.)

, which is funny, and so is the rivalrous back - and - forth between Thor and Star - Lord (Chris Pratt), who in contrast to the stentorian stud of Asgard has never seemed more of a dude.

-- Andrea Barrett, National Book Award - winning author «Lily King delves into the intellectual flights and passions of three anthropologists - as complex, rivalrous, and brutal as any of the cultures they study.

All we need know is the resource of waste disposal in the carbon cycle is scarce, rivalrous, capitalizable, excludable, administrable and marketable.

If these 3.0 projects are genuinely anti-rivalrous to their core, then this would seem to imply that for any project in this space, like DAOStack, it would need to create some kind of capital flow into their system where there wasn't an upper limit on the token sale, because that would create artificial scarcity, making it rivalrous.

On the other hand, if there is an upper limit on the token volume, then we're right back where we started from — the anti-rivalrous needs the rivalrous.