Sentence examples for which rivalries from inspiring English sources

This essential averageness of my physical self will help keep petty rivalries at bay, which rivalries, in the excessively confined atmosphere of the space shuttle, could soon devolve into a sort of "space madness".

But the film also showed the extent to which rivalry and animosity drove the technology forward.

Analyzing the K1dd13 conversations, the Honeynet Project psychologist, Max Kilger, described a complex hierarchy based on technical prowess in which rivalry plays a big role.

Unlike other methods used to address incomplete data relating to social networks [4, 5], the question at hand is not if a rivalry exists, but rather to which rivalry a violent event belongs.

We emphasize that this represents our lack of information about which rivalry it belongs to. Figure 1 Simplified representation of the rivalry network with known (circle) and unknown (triangle) events.

Harvard's Graham Allison worries that China and the U.S. risk falling into the "Thucydides Trap" ― named after the historian who chronicled the conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta ― in which rivalry between rising and established powers inevitably leads to war.

It is a strangely (and unbelievably) libido-free climate in which the rivalries for proximity to the high life don't involve erotic flirtation.

That would be a return to the format the N.H.L. used before Gary Bettman became commissioner in 1993, one in which division rivalries flourished thanks to regular playoff encounters.

Faced with such a politically sensitive mandate -- which increased rivalries of upstate and downstate, cities and suburbs, Democrats and Republicans -- the state's leaders fought.

In the stilted terms in which such rivalries are often distilled, fans of St. Joseph's find Villanova supporters haughty and condescending, while Wildcats supporters find the St . Josephs faithful jealous and insecure.

Over the last decade, the family gained renewed power and respect after a period in which internal rivalries and widespread drug dealing prompted the city's four other crime families to shun the Bonannos.