jostling

1. Both the Korean Peninsula and Iranian nuclear issues involve multiple conflicts of interest jostling for attention.

2. The outdated ticket vending system means travelers must elbow their way through jostling queue jumpers to buy tickets from the grim faced counter staff.

3. Oil companies are also jostling for the embryonic LNG market to take advantage of China's move to increase natural gas consumption.

4. The introduction of automated ticketing on buses in Beijing has apparently done much to improve crowding and jostling as people board.

5. International discourse on human rights sometimes degenerates into hollow ideological jostling because perceptions of civil rights and freedoms are too divergent between countries and cultures.

6. Driven by an urgent desire to boost their sales, stores are jostling to offer the deepest discounts to drum up consumer interest.

7. After the frenzied jostling of the tourist traps, a stroll in this area is a truly relaxing affair.

8. Groups of officers directed commuters from subway stations where trains weren't running and at bus stops jammed with people jostling to get on board.

9. The law of the jungle prevails in all the pushing and jostling, as the stronger try to get to the goodies first.

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10. He lost his grip on his mother's hand in the jostling crowd and fell to the ground.

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