He is a formidable opponent.

Tom is my rival.

He is not Ivan The Terrible.

Even if the competition is the old way of doing something.

Ivan the Terrible killed his son in 1581.

I realized that my real competition was the beaver.

SHANGHAI The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.

For their members, international competition is a major threat as imports or immigrants may cut the wages of less skilled workers.

For unions, the new right is a competitive challenge for support.

This is some kind of nightmare of every Russian, to exchange Sebastople for Grozny.

This year, BNP s great rival, Société Générale, has been in the spotlight.

And I don't know if you can read the lettering, but it says, Ivan the Terribus.

It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the US.

Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son, featuring former porn star Sasha Grey.

Yet, having enjoyed a huge subsidy from Moscow, Kadyrov has rebuilt Grozny and provided it with some security.

When he returned to Grozny, Suleymanov discovered a very different pace that offered little of the diversity to which he d grown accustomed in Moscow.

Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited because it owned 8.4 million shares of Google before the IPO took place.

The Russians bombarded Grozny constantly for weeks, killing mainly the civilians who were still trapped inside.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3.0 the following year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

I think the whole of Grozny knew about me even before 2003 , when I lived in Grozny and I didn t have any problems.

What an irony a currency designed to challenge the dollar for supremacy among global currencies, now needs US assistance to stop its meltdown.

By January 2007, Blu ray Discs had outsold HD DVDs, and during the first three quarters of 2007, BD outsold HD DVD by about two to one.

Airbus says its rival is sticking to a seat concept from the 1950s, when the average girth of the newly christened jet set was narrower.

We are holding active negotiations with the Libyans several delegations have already visited Moscow, and they have announced their readiness to come again, to either Moscow or Grozny.

In any case, it is known that the Tsar wanted even to demolish the cathedral, and that the cathedral was never consecrated during his lifetime.

Kerry's remaining competitor, John Edwards, talks about how the gap on trade between him and Kerry is wide and deep with Kerry on the free trade side.

Under the world s very eyes, a capital Grozny, with 400,000 inhabitants has been razed for the first time since Hitler s 1944 punishment of Warsaw.

Grozny was totally destroyed during the first Chechen war both Russian and foreign observers compared it with WWII Stalingrad and assumed that it would be impossible to restore the city.

Indeed, terrorist attacks at the turn of the century solidified public opinion against Chechen rebels and gave Putin the public support he needed to raze Grozny, Chechnya s capital.

He was such a freak and that clipboard probably saved his life, because they figured no other rival gang member would be coming up to shoot at them with a clipboard.

Brazil's Embraer SA, the world's third largest commercial planemaker and Bombardier's closest rival, reported a 10 percent fall in quarterly profit on Thursday.

By 2015, Wanda plans to outfit all of its shopping centres, hotels, and recreational facilities with e commerce services, the development of which Alibaba, now established as a competitor, will also be engaged in.

Rival Sunrise, hosted by David Koch and Samantha Armytage, was stuck in London as part of a week long series of international telecasts which also include Dubai, New York, Niagara Falls and Cancun.

But it retains the vocation and characteristics of a major power a rich culture and history, vast size, formidable nuclear capabilities, strong influence across Eurasia, and the capacity to be a spoiler in many conflicts.

Warner's newly formed Independent Liberal Party received 12,631 votes the United National Congress (the party of the current Prime Minister), the ILP's closest rival and the party which Warner formerly chaired, garnered just 5,126 votes.

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovich, wins on February 7.

But his half brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovych, wins on February 7.

The Dalian local government constructed an elaborate software development park à la Silicon Valley, where students returning from abroad can rent low cost office space for startup companies.

On May 15, Kadyrov even invited one and all to attend the couple s wedding in Grozny on May 16, joking that the nuptials seemed to attract more attention than the ceremony for Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

Video Lossy Theora based upon On2's VP3, it is targeted at competing with MPEG 4 video (for example, encoded with DivX or Xvid), RealVideo, or Windows Media Video.

In 2004, he received 350,000 roubles ( 6,150) in compensation for the destruction of his house during the war. He bought a car and rented a flat in Grozny, which he had only previously visited a couple of times in his life.

Airbus this week called for an industry standard that would provide for a seat at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide in economy cabins, but its U.S. arch rival Boeing says it should be for airlines to decide.

It hasn't been even a decade since the debates about Grozny's restoration (the city was in such ruins that city planners even discussed rebuilding the capital in a different spot), and today you can come to Grozny as a welcome, seemingly long awaited guest.