Sentences with phrase «upmanship between»
one - upmanship between Tony and Omar (F. Murray Abraham), Tony telling a little kid on the beach to watch as the mafioso's friend Manny (Steven Bauer) gets slapped by a girl, and Tony wearing Elvira's sun hat (leading to a burst of laughter from Pfeiffer).
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(One of the big stories of the upcoming session will be the one - upmanship we can expect to see between Wildrose leader Brian Jean and soon to be anointed PC leader Kenney, but I will save that for a future blog post).
The 1972 World Chess Championship between American challenger Bobby Fischer and the USSR's defending champion Boris Spassky would for several weeks turn a chessboard in Reykjavik into a battlefield of Cold War one - upmanship.»
You might have heard there's just a bit of rivalry between Australia and New Zealand — a fairly healthy spirit of antagonism and one - upmanship which permeates everything from sports to music.