Sentence examples for instigate rivalry from inspiring English sources

This finding undermines the thesis that the principal purpose of copulation calls is to instigate rivalry among males, the researchers reported online Tuesday in the scientific journal PLoS One.

To some, this recalled the legend of Ratatosk, a squirrel from 13th-century Norse mythology that scurried along a tree representing the world, instigating a rivalry between an evil dragon at the bottom of the tree and an eagle perched on top.

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In the movie, Roman Polanski's breakthrough, a sinister young hitchhiker who accompanies a sportswriter and his wife on a weekend sailing expedition instigates a sadistic rivalry with the writer for his wife's respect.

Aside from that, this could be the case of Houston trying to instigate an in-state rivalry.

This finding is in correspondence with the hypothesis that rivalry is instigated at early levels of visual processing [7], although this hypothesis is under debate [3].

For example, when binocular rivalry is instigated between a low and a high contrast grating, the high contrast grating usually has a longer dominance duration than the low contrast one [17] [19].

The fight has already been fueled this week by the verbal jabs from the Celtics' Paul Pierce, a departure from what instigated the basketball rivalries in the 1980's and 90's.

While Marlborough fought in the Low Countries a series of personal and party rivalries instigated a general reversal of fortune.

With the presence of interocular spatial conflict, unbiased rivalry may be instigated between stimuli that are presented intermittently, even when they are temporally out of phase and so have no temporal overlap [11].

Each faction blames the other for instigating the violence that is an echo of an old rivalry that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement failed to erase.