Sentence examples for an escalating contest from inspiring English sources

The cables show that for several years, as Georgia entered an escalating contest with the Kremlin for the future of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two breakaway enclaves out of Georgian control that received Russian support, Washington relied heavily on the Saakashvili government's accounts of its own behavior.

Many of Mr. Pawlenty's contributors and supporters had been waiting for a signal from him in the escalating contest between Mr. Romney and Mr. Perry.

Mr. Hashimi's remarks were the latest move in an escalating political contest, which has become a serious test for President Obama's assertion that American troops were leaving behind an Iraq that was stable and self-reliant.

Even if religion is not the main cause of conflict, nothing keeps conflict on the boil like a dose of fiery religious rhetoric.Something similar goes for the escalating contest across the greater Middle East, and Muslim world generally, between Sunnis and Shias.

Longitudinal case study data is presented, showing contradiction and escalating contest between ethics-orientated and rules-based systems in a high-commitment mental health setting, triggering a crisis and organisational closure.

Such vocal changes might indicate the motivation to escalate a contest and might be an important means to regulate the space between territorial females without engaging in costly physical fights.

Contests between males proceed through a highly stereotyped series of aggressive behaviours, with the most escalated contests ending with males head-butting each other and grappling with their mouthparts [36].

Males with large weaponry may also be able to impose more damage on rivals during escalated contests.

Both of these factors are expected to influence male motivation to escalate contests rather than their ability to win contests.

This is because older individuals have nothing to gain from escalating a contest they are unlikely to win, whereas younger individuals gain by learning about their relative status within the population.

Using a data set of 296 robotic designs over 4 episodes of this design contest we find evidence for (a) escalating repertoire simplicity causing convergence in design configurations; and (b) hypothesized, but rarely tested, links between competition at the individual team level and technological evolution at the population level.