| The notion that justice is a zero-sum game, that any gains won by one group come at the expense of another, is nonsense. |
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| Such hope is vital if we are ever to transcend the perpetual tit-for-tat, zero-sum game of everyday politics. |
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| The Chinese do not view it as a zero-sum game in the manner of the Cold War. |
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| Even though these 'rules of the game' establish overall preservation, they are seen to be a zero-sum game compared to other values. |
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| It appears to be a zero-sum game and the international community will probably have to adjudicate. |
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| Instead, the drug companies are reduced to producing slightly different versions of pre-existing products, which in the end is a zero-sum game. |
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| This tendency notwithstanding, human rights protection need not be a zero-sum game. |
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| They both think in terms of a zero-sum game and this is the crux of the ongoing crisis. |
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| Yet the function of blogging in a big-media context is not a zero-sum game. |
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| In polls where there was no clear winner, where politics was seen as a zero-sum game and the strongmen in power were loath to relinquish it, the danger of violence was never far off. |
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| The strategy must also be clearly based on the understanding that sustainable development is not a zero-sum game where there can only be winners and losers. |
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| Advocates often describe a zero-sum game, in which more of one inevitably means less of the other. |
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| The United States does not view Europe as a battleground between East and West, nor do we see the situation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game. |
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| He saw Washington as trying to pursue the zero-sum game in the face of opposition from much of the rest of the world. |
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| But it is becoming a zero-sum game, where no party can win without others losing, and everyone is choosing sides. |
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| Who then is the optimal trading partner in this zero-sum game? |
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| My own view on this, and on such situations as this, is that it is what we call a zero-sum game. |
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| Moreover, the debate on unity and secession continues to remain a zero-sum game. |
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| The budget debate cannot continue to be treated as a zero-sum game. |
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| From the perspective of the new competitiveness, the desirable future will not follow a contest to determine superiority among societies in a zero-sum game but rather will follow a win-win effort to enhance all societies. |
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| But gaining while your opponents are dropping is all you need to win in the zero-sum game. |
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| Erroneously, political players tend to perceive elections as a zero-sum game in which a winner takes all and the loser loses everything. |
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| Conflictual negotiation is a zero-sum game aimed at differentiating interlocutors according to the power that they have. |
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| Wedge politics is a zero-sum game, based not so much on class as on ressentiment. |
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| In Iraq, the nature of Daesh, the nature of its conflict with the Iraqi state and the balance of power between the two make it a zero-sum game. |
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| They do not see the negotiations as a zero-sum game but as a process that through constructive dialogue will lead to a win-win situation. |
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| Corruption may very well be one of the most blatant expressions of inequality in our society, a long-running zero-sum game whose stakes keep getting higher. |
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| These people are almost entirely of two kinds: litigators conditioned to see trade as a zero-sum game, or spin-doctors who cannot lift their eyes from their latest poll findings. |
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| Violence occurred in particular when politics was seen as a zero-sum game. |
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| Because of limited funding, adding new services has turned into a zero-sum game where one important service is cut to allow for the introduction of a new one. |
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| It is for small island States, a clear and present danger, a zero-sum game, if you will, that may just decide their future membership of this Assembly. |
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| Economic development is not a zero-sum game. |
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| In a zero-sum game, one person's gain is another person's loss. |
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