A basic PC chip is a rivalrous good, but it provides far more power than most computer owners ever use.
In the show, both a rivalrous cardinal and the new Pope bellow "Fuck!" when vexed.
In the Walter paintings he is looking hungrily at Ingres and with a rivalrous eye at Matisse.
The multiple-winner optimism of market competition has receded in favor of a rivalrous clash for technological hegemony, and governments are no longer standing on the sidelines.
But behind this there may have been a wider intention, that of ripping out a sense of permanence, continuity, identity; ripping out a rivalrous form of history.
Ms. Aubry, the head of the Socialist Party, who originally supported Mr. Strauss-Kahn and then ran against Mr. Hollande, has a rivalrous relationship with the new president.
In its classic forms, Art Deco, like its related styles (from "International" modernism to Surrealism), was a transatlantic exchange between a rivalrous pair of taste-making metropolises.
Mrs. Clinton's attempt to reset relations with Russia, though far from successful, was a sensible effort to improve interactions with a rivalrous nuclear power.
These proposals illustrate the fundamental obstacle to reforming the military: the fact that it isn't really a unitary force, so much as a rivalrous group of them.
In general, umbraphiles are not a boastful or a rivalrous bunch; in the face of grand celestial alignments, the human ego shrinks.
Clare Foster's Cecily and Amy Morgan's Gwendolen take a rivalrous tea for two in which they sing, ever more agitated songbirds – one of the evening's high points.
