Sentence examples for rivalry in which from inspiring English sources

This, though, is the rivalry in which home advantage has meant most.

Ohl gets round this difficulty with his contemporary setting: among other things, Mr Dick is a tale of academic rivalry in which Dickens is the prize.

The Chiefs offense is formidable enough that even in a rivalry in which home field counts for plenty, the Chiefs will prevail.

Sensory rivalry, in which one stimulus inhibits the perception of another, may result from a conflict of cues if sensory information is ambiguous or discrepant, as in the tilted-room experiment discussed above, during which the visual sense conflicts with cues from the sense of equilibrium.

Arsenal moved to the Tottenham neighborhood in 1913, and the enmity between the two clubs, which are separated by a short bus ride, fuels a rivalry in which Arsenal has now won 75 derby matches and Spurs 54, with 47 ending even.

Still less do they understand that the great rivalry has in large part become a business rivalry, in which George Steinbrenner and his minions (the "evil empire," according to Larry Lucchino, the Red Sox president) compete with the Red Sox front office and its éminence grise, the stats wizard Bill James, to see who can better deploy an enormous payroll.

PHILADELPHIA — Brye French, a senior inside linebacker for Navy, spent a few of his teenage years in Deatsville, Ala., so he has heard plenty about football rivalries in which emotions can boil over.

The UAE and Qatar's duelling visions complicate the region's lay of the land wracked by multiple rivalries in which the interests of regional and external protagonists at times coincide but more often than not exacerbate the crisis.

All of that recent tit-for-tat action helped to fuel the sticky Jets-Patriots rivalry, one in which old wounds remain somewhat fresh.

After nearly a month of blowouts and less-than-appealing matchups, "Sunday Night Football" on NBC returned to form on Sunday in a hotly contested rivalry game in which the Baltimore Ravens defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 23-20, with a touchdown in the final seconds.

To test this, we use slant rivalry [16] in which bistable perception originates from conflict between two slant-defining cues, binocular disparity and monocular perspective, resulting in perceptual alternations between a perspective-dominated and disparity-dominated percept, Fig. 1a.