Sentence examples similar to contest for self from inspiring English sources

American Economic Review, No.1, 1999"The intimate contest for self-command" by Thomas Schelling.

Translated into the realm of personal saving, this is precisely the quirk in our nature that Messrs Thaler and Benartzi exploit when they ask people to save more not today, but tomorrow.This quirk sets up an "intimate contest for self-command", as Thomas Schelling, a winner of last year's Nobel prize for economics, puts it.

It's a good job he doesn't depend on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year contest for his self-esteem.

About the contest for the N.Y.

Take Saturday's contest, for example.

2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.

That's a contest for the ages.

The Critical Assessment of Small Molecule Identification (CASMI) Contest [1] was founded in 2012 as an open contest for the experimental and computational mass spectrometry communities [2, 3].

Direct contest for food is reflected by a high rate of agonistic inter-sexual interactions.

Create a contest for tickets through Facebook.

Relative differences in body size might matter more for contest than for scramble competition.