Sentence examples for competitive tone from inspiring English sources
He immediately set a competitive tone.
First he took issue with Mr. Babacan's competitive tone, saying, "I am going to suggest that we, all nations, are in this together".
Paunovic's initial insertion of Accam and De Leeuw to the starting XI signaled a competitive tone to this encounter, but the team's response told another story.
Undergraduate science classrooms in general have the reputation of being places in which only right answers are valued, and participation in class discussions has a competitive tone (Seymour and Hewitt, 2010).
It is important to mention, however, that there are relatively few head-to-head comparisons of NGS versus molecular signatures and that most of them so far have a competitive tone to them.
Least we forget the fortitude of foreign rivals who for the most part we disliked but lent a "Red Dawn," "Rocky IV" Cold War much needed competitive rivalry tone.
Such a journey brings key life lessons, to be sure; but when one remembers that the purpose of college is to expand one's view of self and the world, the competitive, narrow, cynical tone that too often resonates within college admissions seems a rather bizarre way to begin an experience intended to be expansive by nature.
"I'm very competitive," she said, her tone adamantine.
(It wouldn't be a competition, he said, in the tone in which extremely competitive people say those words).
For any given competitive interaction between AM tones there could be units in any BP range of the map whose responses to its optimal AM tone can be suppressed as long as the competing AM are different (losers) and other units that maintain their response to an optimal AM irrespective of the presence of other competing AM tones (winners).
