Sentence examples for rivalrous resources from inspiring English sources

Thus Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them.

Economists call this kind of resource "rivalrous". It's the same with financial capital.

His attitude is less rivalrous than pathological.

Picasso and Matisse were similarly rivalrous.

Democracy is rivalrous, quarrelsome and unpredictable.

Donors also remain intrusive, cumbersome and rivalrous in their giving.

There are the Beats' rivalrous dealings with rock stars.

It was more of a slightly rivalrous, untrusting association.

Their occupation of space and time is rivalrous.

But was a son also provoking in me rivalrous feelings?

How rivalrous of Knightley did she feel off-screen?