Sentence examples for pseudo competition from inspiring English sources

He writes: "This is a protest, an act of civil disobedience, a methodology of refusing and resistance". Oldfield's blog dismisses the Boat Race as a "pseudo competition" that allows the elites to "reboot their shared culture in the public realm".

The Boat Race itself, with its pseudo competition, assembled around similar principles of fastest, strongest, selected … etc, is an inconsequential backdrop for these elite educational institutions to demonstrate themselves and reboot their shared culture together in the public realm.

This research explores when these individual goal pursuits can turn into competitions, why it happens, and the downstream consequences of this pseudo-competition on goal pursuers.

You don't improve morale or discipline by publicly criticising those working extremely hard with insufficient resources and ever-growing demand, or by setting one part of a system up against another in a blame-game or pseudo-competition.

Ironically, success in gaining an upper hand against others in these pseudo-competitions led individuals to subsequently reduce their effort in their own pursuits (Studies 1 5).

That the camp will have an evolution theme, and feature some "pseudo-science" debunking and a competition to disprove the existence of unicorns?

Gypsy Witch decks ($7) come with Lenormand figures, so you can break up the whiskey-fueled poker competition with a little pseudo-fortune telling.

When the Scots good-naturedly attacked their New Zealand competition as "people who speak with pseudo-English accents," there were loud cries of "Shame!

The deviation from pseudo-first-order kinetics can be explained by interspecies competition for reactive sites between TCE and a dominant reaction product.

1UP.com's Jeremy Parish stated that F-Zero and Pilotwings "existed almost entirely for the sake of showing [the system's pseudo-3D capabilities] off" as they outclassed the competition.

These days, Russian listeners are offered a broad choice of music, entertainment, and news (or pseudo news) on the radio, to say nothing of the competition from newer media.