Sentence examples for status competitions from inspiring English sources

They're status competitions.

In fact, maybe only $100,000, because the public schools are so good and so few people in town give a rat's patootie about the status competitions of clothes, cars and clubs, anyway.

They are also often freer of the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, wear designer clothes, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the costs of professional middle-class life in big cities and suburbs.

They are also freer of the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the cost of professional middle-class life in the big cities and suburbs.

They are also freer from the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, wear designer clothes, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the cost of living in big cities and suburbs.

A common example is the use of low-frequency vocalizations during status competitions or aggressive encounters [44].

Societies with fierce status competition may well be unhealthier and more violent.

Lastly, inequality is being taken up as an important environmental issue; because it drives status competition, it intensifies consumerism and adds to personal debt.

I think that is because male caretakers take their relationships with male chimpanzees and gorillas -- there may be some status competition -- at a personal level.

His intellectual heirs, like the economists Robert Frank and Juliet Schor, treat the intangible pleasures of style as either deceptive "salesmanship" (Veblen's term) or wasteful status competition.

But it is the disparities of status, not of income, that matter.Often the two go together: Nordic countries have low income inequality and not too much status competition.