It's sometimes hard for players to shake the competitive urge.

Most dog events are really people events, designed to fulfill the competitive urge of the owners.

In the past, this competitive urge has often fixed on symbols.

Threatening behaviors may be conceptualized as a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for interrelational dominance generally seen in animals.

There is an aggressive, competitive urge in the race that responds to conflict.

On one level, he believed in his furniture, and like most Chicago sports fans, he had that competitive urge.

"Is this the male competitive urge that I sense surfacing now?"

You're contributing to the competitive urge that the economist Robert Frank calls "luxury fever."

This impulse was, I think, an assertion of my meager dominion, or my competitive urge misplaced.

There was a powerful competitive urge to make a lot of money and gain a lot of recognition in the investment world.