Sentence examples for zero sum gain from inspiring English sources
Who says the market is a zero sum gain?
The general point is that credit is not a zero sum game in which gains to creditors equal losses to debtors; both can lose as prices fall.
But as the punch-up in parliament over Russian in the eastern regions shows, when times gets tense, people's thinking becomes zero sum: a gain for Russian must be a loss for Ukrainian.
But as jilted Santa Monica City Manager Rod Gould put it, the poaching of companies is a risky use of scarce public money, and it's "a zero sum game" with no net gain for the regional economy.
Bringing the Baltics into the alliance is not a zero sum game in which NATO's gain is Russia's loss, NATO's strength Russia's weakness.
Is a sports contest a zero sum game in which only one team, or one individual, can gain anything positive?
It turned out that debt is not a zero sum game, in which any loss to creditors is matched by a gain to borrowers.
And power IS a zero sum game.
Books are a zero sum game.
But is this a zero sum game?
