1. This kind of one-upmanship is the very thing that Paul wants to avoid.

2. Tashi one-upmanship, eventually obtaining victory like riding.

3. The stakes get higher with each round of one-upmanship.

4. Also, since Japanese people are all about one-upmanship, they only eat baby shrimps.

5. Remember, cultural epochs come and go, but one-upmanship is forever.

6. China's one-upmanship with the United States continued earlier this month.

7. I do think that is one-upmanship compared with the popularity of internet.

8. But then in a glorious show of one-upmanship, another bridesmaid grabs the microphone and delivers a moving monologue peppered with humorous anecdotes and spiritually uplifting Thai proverbs.

9. This is part of the overall one-upmanship occurring in the porn industry over the last decade, the desperate scramble to attract attention through increasingly more over-the-top porn.

10. A feeling of one-upmanship has been brewing within you for a while, and it may crystallize unless you become aware of the tendency.

11. How do we know this relentless one-upmanship is a biological endowment?

12. Watching the children together gave reassurance that childhood is not all one-upmanship and go-for-the-jugular.

13. It was the expression of a man who'd won a trifling game of one-upmanship.

14. Gaskell is fascinated by the detail of ordinary lives. She explores the intricacies of 19th-century society through the hierarchies of bonnets and the one-upmanship of lace.

15. Especially in the dump area and the exclusion of one-upmanship.

16. But there are also friends who can be bad for us in emotion, and sometimes subtler ways with sly insults,(Sentencedict.com) and competitive one-upmanship.

17. John, 35, a builder, says he and a friend got into sewing as a form of one-upmanship.

18. On the surface it might just appear like a simple case of one-upmanship , but it actually represents major forces digging in online and preparing to do battle.

19. They suggest that the advice, justifiably or not, comes across to us as one-upmanship, or assertion of dominance, or criticism, or distrust, or failure to consider our own unique goals and priorities.

20. Buying luxury goods, conversely, tends to be an endless cycle of one-upmanship, in which the neighbors have a fancy new car and — bingo! — now you want one, too, scholars say.

21. Whether it's about choices around education, feeding, sleeping or even something as simple as the name you have given your child, we are all playing a desperate game of one-upmanship.

22. First, you should be far better than the details of one-upmanship.