While "Cock" was about power plays within a sexual triangle, "Bull" presents bizarre power plays and one-upmanship within a tense office situation wherein one of three employees is allegedly going to be fired.
Trips back home involved enduring endless one-upmanship talk of assets and their 'big plans' for retirement.
Leviev is also moving beyond the ancient game of one-upmanship--and beyond the dirty business of diamonds.
The parliamentary debates, as shaped by Steven Knight, leap from noble declamation to taunting one-upmanship and back again.
This one-upmanship bothers Kim's boss, Philip Soffer, who wants him to move out.
The art of their one-upmanship involves outspending a rival, often in small but cutting ways that suggest an effortless superiority.
But to bring that competitive one-upmanship to a new level, you've got to have a spectacular showcase for all that loot.
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But most nations set aside political one-upmanship to get on with the grim task of pulling people out of the rubble.
This one-upmanship gets as exciting as anything for a bystander like me.
It began simply as another round of one-upmanship in the drug industry.
Children start with dance competitions in primary school and continue with their one-upmanship on the dance floor in nightclubs and weddings into their adulthood.
"This was seeking political one-upmanship, and it's going to fail, " Sen.
It seems like there's this maybe--is it that competitive that it's this one-upmanship going on between companies, that they're trying to beat each other out, feature for feature?
The pressure--and the one-upmanship--could rise in the next two years.
Diouf - who had momentarily found himself outwith a two-yard radius of his new-found nemesis - showed remarkable restraint as Brown postured in his face in a devilish show of one-upmanship.
In a game of one-upmanship, former players from Dallas (Tony Casillas), Pittsburgh (Merril Hoge) and the New York Giants (Rich Seubert) got the fans going before announcing the second-round picks for their teams.
The online payment service providers and the mobile phone manufacturers (particularly nowadays with smartphones where it is a software-driven market) seem genetically indisposed to interoperability among their services: they are used to working in markets where relentless competition and one-upmanship is what moves the industry forward.
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