Tom is my rival.

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

I realized that my real competition was the beaver.

It is an ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years, imbued with fierce national pride.

When growth falters, the food fight among party members will become vicious.

Eighteen months of violent Israeli Palestinian confrontations have set new dynamics in motion.

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

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

What Inji got instead was much of the same brutal harassment and threats of violence.

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

Yet, instead of building such an order, Obama s presidency has so far been a mighty struggle to stem the decline in American power.

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

Dangerfield based his diagnosis on a cross section of institutions, politics, and personalities, set against the bitter class warfare of the time. Americans, however, have generally been averse to class warfare.

While this will be the subject of a fierce political battle in the US, it is likely that the European Union will be far more willing to move ahead.

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

With the world s fastest growing economies, fastest rising military expenditures, fiercest resource competition, and most serious hot spots, Asia obviously holds the key to the future global order.

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.

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.

A row has flared up between leading plane makers over the width of tourist class seats on long distance flights, setting the tone for a bitter confrontation at this month's Dubai Airshow.

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.

However, Jobs' leadership at the Macintosh project did not last after an internal power struggle with new CEO John Sculley, Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985.

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.

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.

Global cooperation on energy technologies is needed both to increase supplies and to ensure that energy use is environmentally safe, especially to head off man made climate change from the use of fossil fuels. This would not only be good economics, but also good politics, since it could unite the world in our common interest, rather than dividing the world in a bitter struggle over diminishing oil, gas, and coal reserves.

This would not only be good economics, but also good politics, since it could unite the world in our common interest, rather than dividing the world in a bitter struggle over diminishing oil, gas, and coal reserves.

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.

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.

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.