Political opponents cannot compete for real power, or make frontal attacks on the President in the press, but they can talk in apartments and cafés, they can run for seats in parliament and join the professional unions and the like.
Following the death of Abū Saʿīd, Ḥasan Buzurg competed for real control of the empire with his rival, the Chūpānid amīr Ḥasan Küčük ("the Small," so designated to distinguish him from Ḥasan Buzurg, "the Great"); they set up rival khanates.
Poker's popularity has–not surprisingly been spurred by online gaming sites, where players compete for real money.
Pikums can be played for bragging rights, or users can compete for real cash, capitalising on the attention and engagement of fans.
The company says players will have the chance to compete for "real world" prizes, rather than virtual ones (such as trophies or gamer points) but declines to provide any more details at this point.
The series has also inspired arcade games such as the Japanese Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road, where players compete for real-life cards with monster data that the arcade game issues to the players through a slot on its front.
He's competing for the real estate om that tiny screen.
Last year Google purchased Nest for over $3 billion, Samsung acquired SmartThings, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Fitbit, Withings, Jawbone, and dozens more are competing for the real estate on your wrist, and Cisco forecasts 50 billion connected things by 2025.
Yet, despite the contraction in VC investments, the industry is growing dramatically, fueled by agencies and advertisers competing for digital real estate across billions of screens, with billions more forthcoming in the next few years.
The ornamental borders can transform into the point of interest, a much labored-over piece of work capable of competing for visual real estate just as much as a classic painting.
