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In more general terms, almost all private goods are rivalrous.

Women looked at her from outside, sometimes rivalrous, often with a trace of ridicule.

His itinerary was a model of balance among the country's rivalrous regions.

Last week, the Met opened an exhibition of paintings collected by the rivalrous brothers.

The idea is to make it a "rivalrous good," one that, after being taken, deprives someone else of something.

Military police and intelligence units that had often been rivalrous were fused into a single task force.

Goods which are completely rivalrous, by definition, cannot yield external benefits.

There are the Beats' rivalrous dealings with rock stars.

Approximately one-third of adults describe their relationship with siblings as rivalrous or distant.

That rivalrous spirit often spills over into mindless expressions of contention.

But they also found themselves struggling to move their sometimes rivalrous agencies and prosecutors in the same direction at the same time.

In contrast, other goods, like food, electricity, the use of a personal computer, are rivalrous in consumption.

However, not all interactions between exchanges are rivalrous.

In contests among rivalrous humans, it has sometimes been a convenient skull cracker.

The museum, which opened in 1988, is unusual in considering the sometimes rivalrous media side by side.

However the use of radio and TV wave frequencies for transmitting programmes from the earth is rivalrous.

A good can be placed along a continuum ranging from rivalrous (rival) to non-rival.

Adult siblings can also be portrayed with a rivalrous relationship, often a continuation of childhood conflicts.

All the while, she is bullied by an exquisite and rivalrous geisha, Hatsumomo.

His relationship with Chiang Kai-shek was at various times rivalrous and cooperative.

But not even a full DPP implementation would suddenly make content rivalrous.

A good which is rivalrous but non-excludable is sometimes called a common-pool resource.

Some analysts say the agreement's failure could also shape his crucial decision on which of the quietly rivalrous aides he will nominate to succeed him.

They are rivalrous, brutish, generous, xenophobic, kind and corrupt - very much like sahibs themselves.

He knew that his work would be compared with the suave canvases of Stubbs and others in what was a fiercely rivalrous field.