Sentence examples for competitive tendencies from inspiring English sources

I felt ashamed of the competitive tendencies that the violin had triggered in me.

Previous investigations have shown that inducing meta-stability in behavior can be achieved by overlapping affordances through constraint manipulation, allowing cooperative and competitive tendencies to functionally coexist.

Football enabled him to channel his "competitive" tendencies and remain active.

Steering away from the competitive tendencies of know-all musos, like those memorably sent up in Nick Hornby's 1995 novel High Fidelity, Fitzgerald wanted the club to concentrate on getting personal reactions to much-loved LPs.

Competitive tendencies amongst people may at times be hazardous to the security of life, possessions and values and authoritative protection and regulation are often necessary to facilitate peaceful and constructive interaction.

John-Wilson will join her in New York when she moves there in August and I wonder aloud how that will work out, given actors' competitive tendency.

This competitive tendency might explain why we ourselves have found it extremely difficult to find older female mentors.

I was afraid because my competitive tendency tended to take over, and I would often foul out, but not until after scoring prolifically.

If replicated, this finding suggests that the greatest exercise benefit might be achieved by matching the nature of an exergame experience to a rider's level of competitive tendency, especially for more competitive riders.

47, 48 Last ,future research could compare and contrast the differential impacts of virtual and real social facilitation on exercise behaviors, while taking into account the role that competitive tendency may play.

He cites this as evidence of Boeing's anti-competitive tendency and says Airbus could be penalised by the spread of such deals.On both counts Mr Van Miert has seized the wrong end of the stick.