"The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear-eyed outlook that the world is not a 'global community' but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage," McMaster and Cohn wrote.
"You're wondering if I'm lonely," wrote Adrienne Rich in that beautiful collection of poems of hers, Diving into the Wreck, "OK then, yes, I'm lonely," and for sure this choice of mine has put me somewhere else that's far away from the competitive bustle of profession and career, where men and women compete for advantage..
Coming on the heels of a visit by much of Pakistan's civilian and military leadership, including Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, the Indians' trip was a reminder of how much Pakistan and India are competing for geopolitical advantage in Afghanistan, and it underscored President Hamid Karzai's efforts to court the two countries.
Fifth, it was a gene expressed in an organism competing for reproductive advantage.
Ditto with his core set of rhetorical syllogisms: (a) Neolithic man was a Hobbesian creature brutally competing for Darwinian reproductive advantage; (b) the Yanomamö are Neolithic men who desire women; therefore, (c) the Yanomamö are competing for reproductive advantage.
The rushing title is only one achievement that Gurley is chasing for a Rams team that is 11-1, has clinched the NFC West and is competing for home-field advantage through the playoffs.
Lacking the resources to compete for global advantage across the full range of policy components that shape the knowledge production process in this field, developmental states must necessarily be selective, choosing their points of policy intervention in the light of their strengths and weaknesses and consequently how they seek to position themselves in the global game.
Under such conditions, bees visiting other flower colours would receive more reward per visit, meaning that naïve and inexperienced foragers from colonies with a weaker bias towards violet would actually be at an advantage competing for nectar.
The system is not perfect: children from higher-income families enjoy an advantage in competing for the top slots.
Today more than a million distinct existing species have been cataloged, each with some unique advantage in competing for the resources it requires.
"Today, the main impact of tight money is through changes in the prices of stocks," which gives healthier companies an advantage in competing for capital.
