Sentence examples for of violent competition from inspiring English sources

"There are films here that transcend any idea of violent competition, and the base violence of pure competition.

"There won't be a spirit of violent competition between the museums, as if they were out to destroy each other.

Hobbes argues that life without a government, in a "state of nature," would be "nasty, poor, solitary, brutish, and short" as a result of violent competition for resources.

One hopes that this leads to a review of the increasing pyramid of injuries -- minor and major -- resulting in recent years from more professionalized training, the pressure to play hurt, the taking of drugs to increase body size and the more general social glorification of violent competition.

Potter was writing as Darwin's earlier revelations about nature being a place of ceaseless, violent competition were being grafted on to the realisation that the "survival of the fittest" applied as much to two-legged creatures as it did to those with tails and whiskers.

Biblical narratives reflect that world of scarce resources and violent competition for them.

Instead of diet, Prof Carrier and his co-author, physician Dr Michael Morgan, propose that violent competition demanded the development of these facial fortifications: what they call the "protective buttressing hypothesis".

That is because boxing is perhaps the most elemental form of violent human competition still acceptable in modern society.

The bitter, often violent competition culminated in the Seven Oaks Massacre of 1816.

But those new governments are locked in fierce, sometimes violent, competition with the more hard-line wing of the Islamic political movements over how much of the faith can mix with democracy, over the very building blocks of religious identity.

Those were specific to Darfur, whereas the sharp drop in rainfall hit the whole Sahel, without intensifying conflict elsewhere.Another commonly cited example is violent competition for scarce grazing between nomadic herdsmen in the Horn of Africa.