Sentence examples for cultural rivalry from inspiring English sources

Given his prominence, it would be impossible for Mr. Zhang to sidestep what some Chinese leaders call a cultural rivalry with the West.

Tensions between the Chinese and various northern invaders stimulated cultural rivalry and concern for the preservation of old literature and other artworks.

However, the craze clearly has wide appeal as it can even be found in Nigeria – although the country's long-running cultural rivalry with Ghana means it is embraced only grudgingly there.

Arabs and Persians enjoy cordial enmity; the cultural rivalry between the Sunni and Shia universes dates back a mere 1.5 millennia or so, to the battle of Karbala in 680 and beyond.

"When the national team is made up largely of Real Madrid and Barcelona players, it represents the biggest, most enduring political and cultural rivalry in any sport; it is a huge achievement to have this group get on well in the national team.

Mr. Geffen spoke out on the same day that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art said he was donating $150 million — a dollar amount and a bit of timing that only highlighted the cultural rivalry between New York and Los Angeles for money and prestige.

In southern Europe, notably in Italy, spectator violence can also reflect deep-seated cultural rivalries and tensions, especially between neighbouring cities or across the divide between north and south.

After Bin Laden's death, some intelligence officials saw a cadre of Libyan operatives as poised to assume greater control inside Al Qaeda, which at times has been fractured by cultural rivalries.

The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolies, restrictions, and exclusion... appeared to exercise almost no influence at all on the ordinary course of social and economic life, the internationalization of which was nearly complete in practice".

A graduate student's imprisonment in Armenia points to the persistence of ethnic rivalries, the changing discipline of cultural anthropology, and the risks of scholarship.

But Mr. Ozon is as perverse as he is resourceful, so he slyly turns his delicate study in generational and cross-cultural sexual rivalry into a suspense thriller.