Sentence examples for active contest from inspiring English sources

Given that stable and despotic dominance relationships are thought to emerge when within-group contest competition is strong (Isbell 1991; Sterck et al. 1997), it is possible that rank-related variation in food intake can be associated with low rates of agonism due to subordinates avoiding active contest of food against individuals that are almost sure to win the interaction.

There were no active contests over territory at the time, not even in the Asian or African colonies.

The most active contests occurred between old wasps competing for large hosts and the least active were between young wasps competing for small hosts (figure 1).

Your best chance of finding current, active contests is to search online or to read current issues of magazines that sponsor writing contests.

Both came away from meetings confident from what he said that they had won him over, according to Democrats who were active in the contest.

My advice is to remain active in these contests simply so as to accumulate delegates.

The dramatic change in U.S. trade policy over the past 25 years from being cool toward FTAs until the mid-1980s to being one of the most active players in the contest for preferential access initially affected agriculture less than some other sectors.

Right now, 15 contests are active on the site, with more to come, Malone said.

Right now, 15 contests are active on the site, with more to come.

However, despite the involvement of local leaders during the SWC contests, the active involvement of many extension workers is needed, especially when larger areas are to be covered in order to achieve a wide-scale impact.

Yet a 2003 study in the Bulletin of Insectology on modelling the acute toxicity of pesticides to honey bees found that cypermethrin, the active ingredient of Fury and Contest, and deltamethrin, the active ingredient of Decis, were in the top four most toxic to bees of all the 100 substances evaluated.