Sentence examples for confrontation competition from inspiring English sources

The psychological conditioning of the apprentice sorcerers is clearly based on a culture of confrontation: competition among students to be prefect; competition among Hogwarts "houses" to gain points; competition among sorcery schools to win the Triwizard tournament; and, ultimately, the bloody competition between the forces of Good and Evil.

Boys keep the peace through confrontation and competition.

One has to look deep into the Cold War to find a similar era of confrontation and competition.

For one thing, she is a formidable campaigner — always on message, gaffe-free in debates and town halls, encyclopedic on policy, and comfortable with confrontation and competition.

Sun bears may have avoided feeding in food patches where black bears had recently been feeding in order to stay away from potential confrontations (interference competition); smaller carnivore species typically avoid larger ones [47].

Make sure to avoid conflicts and confrontations, any competition, in which you don't have at least a sporting chance of winning.

Though Russia maintains a military wing of its space program, confrontation and even competition with the United States in space largely vanished with the end of the cold war.

Most depressing of all was the confrontation between rival supporters at the final of the Muratti Vase, the annual Channel Islands cup competition.

When one thinks about the cold war today, images of political confrontation, military crisis, scientific competition and athletic rivalry come to mind.

If China behaves as though America is weak, and seeks to push back its power, a querulous but well-tended relationship could slide into competition and confrontation and bring about a cold-war stand-off or rivalry for influence in neighbouring states.

Often the state developed competition through confrontation as the state officials criticised RSPO in their formal speeches.