Sentence examples for rivalry for resources from inspiring English sources

But mutual suspicion and rivalry for resources mean that China will remain India's main strategic threat the one it cited to justify the 1998 nuclear tests.

At the centre of the conflict is rivalry for resources, including water, between nomadic herders, backed by Khartoum, and those who farm the land - tribes from which most of the rebels come.

China has agreed to cooperate on potentially lucrative oil and gas ventures with India in response to an increasingly expensive rivalry for resources.

Above all, competitive rivalry for scarce resources must turn into co-operative ventures with larger payoffs to both emerging economic powers and those lagging behind.

The authors say we don't have to see society, as the philosopher Hobbes saw it, as naturally in conflict – "every man against every man" – owing to rivalry for scarce resources.

Journalist Peter Salisbury described the conflict as "driven by local issues and competition for resources rather than regional or ideological rivalries".

The great rivalry between these two cities may have been based on more than competition for resources.

Competition** – Rivalry among actors for resources or recognition.

Joint worries about America's role in Central Asia mask an underlying rivalry for influence and resources.How these latent tensions are resolved will depend on political developments in both countries, and on how nationalistic each becomes.

While there were more than a dozen clans prior to colonialism, a strong sense of ethnic difference did not really become amplified until the Belgian regime began issuing identity cards in the 1930s that separated Rwandans into Hutus and a ruling Tutsi class, sowing the roots of a rivalry for power and resources that has torn the country apart in multiple conflicts throughout the 20th century.

96 98 The negative attitudes of hospital specialists toward the involvement of FPs in undergraduate medical education may not only be due to 'specialty rivalry' for curricular time, teaching resources and academic prominence, but also due to the differences between the 'health and care' approach of primary care and the 'disease and cure' approach of secondary/hospital care.