(1) In other parts of the world, where unitary Empires and not rivalrous states were the norm, such economic transformation did not take place.(2) She was highly competitive and rivalrous and said, u2018I'm going to go talk to your professors.u2019(3) Similar hypotheses to our own, derived from assuming oligopolistic or rivalrous behavior, have been a subject of study in the field of international business.(4) Competition is a rivalrous process in which businesses struggle to be the best producers of goods and services.(5) The perils of distinguishing true predatory behaviour from beneficial rivalrous behaviour mean that the threshold for regulatory intervention should be high.(6) Reflecting the rivalrous aspirations of a tumultuous, multilayered and multicultural society, it voices itself in a multitude of apparently incongruous vocabularies of form.(7) It proves highly conflictual, as the response elicited from other women/mothers/girls is usually disapproving and warning, or alternatively rivalrous .(8) As a result, we keep following the cycle of tearing down the old to build new structures of cooperation that carry the rivalrous seeds of its own destruction.