(14) They saw the case as a
zero-sum game. The majority of the Court disagreed, holding that, if Hobby Lobby's religious burden were alleviated, the burden on its female employees would be "precisely zero." (15) According to the Court, Hobby Lobby was not a
zero-sum game.
Is how we spend our time really a
zero-sum game where each incremental minute spent on one activity must detract from other options we have?
"But either way, it is not a
zero-sum game. In the case of Wayne Rooney, if he had to pay his agent, he would just demand a higher salary.
In a hyper-competitive climate where lowball pricing has turned retailing into a
zero-sum game, we must ask whether the industry has truly done everything to reinvent itself.
We must not place the committee members into a position of the
zero-sum game that takes from one group to give to the other, an occurrence that happens after (by personal witness) the long and arduous process whereby grappling with the excellence of the proposals has been completed.
In their opinion, while it is possible to build the reputation of multiple institutions in the same marketplace, prestige is a
zero-sum game. Prestige gained by one institution must be lost by another.
Achieving one's goals is not a
zero-sum game I believed the "idols" who said that participating was reward enough, even if they did not win.
When power is exercised as a
zero-sum game, those in authority build their power by taking it from those who have less possibility to resist.
The Farm Bill is a
zero-sum game; money from one section must come from another.
"The archbishop makes a complex series of issues into a facile
zero-sum game in which support for the Palestinian people must be matched with harsh, unjust and unfair condemnation of Israel."
It is rather comforting to know that the Nash equilibrium for a two-person
zero-sum game corresponds to von Neumann's solution.