Sentence examples for in a zero sum from inspiring English sources

Hefce insists it is only discussing how to divide up the existing cake in a zero sum game.

The prospect of ever-tighter austerity and the upheaval of any reorganisation could easily end up pitting discipline against discipline, researcher against researcher in a zero sum fight for resources.

Ultimately, though, talk of a true currency war, where countries competitively devalue their exchange rates in a zero sum game that recalls the old Matthew Broderick film "War Games," is overstated.

We are not operating in a zero sum world.

It doesn't need to mean that success is defeating colleagues in a zero sum game.

Without being conscious of it, they are all engaged in a zero sum game.

We no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person's, or one country's gain, must be another's loss.

As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person's, or one country's gain, must be another's loss.

Locked in a zero-sum game (when one country wins, the other loses), the two superpowers watched each other vigilantly, eager for gains but also wary of the threat of nuclear war.

"A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered" (Arts pages, July 24) pits evangelical and mainline Protestant Christians against one another in a zero-sum game of intellect versus emotion.

Senator Kirk Watson, Democrat of Austin, concerned about pitting universities against one another in a "zero-sum game," was among those who pushed for taking more time to find a better formula.