Tom's opponent was Mary.

Based on this evidence, Armstrong was acquitted.

To defuse an electoral fight with his rival, Schroeder agreed.

They belonged to the Fourth Army, headed by Zhang Guotao, Mao s archrival.

The government candidate, José Serra, would be a much more difficult opponent than Ciro Gomes.

But these groups have already become a major contender in the Arab world s battle of ideas.

The Spectrum was among the first mainstream audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA.

Strauss Kahn is, of course, likely to be Sarkozy s Socialist rival in the next French presidential election.

And China, is, for the US, both its greatest opportunity as a market and its greatest potential superpower rival.

Examples like this abound in Latin America, but it is a mistake for Castro to think that Latin America is the competition.

India is unlikely to develop the power to become a global challenger to the US in the first half of this century.

Turning away from a fight with its former occupier and historical rival would be a step backward in this six decade long quest.

This post is part of our special coverage Russia Elections 2011 12. Mikhail Prokhorov will oppose Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 Russian presidential election.

The new trove of WikiLeaks covering documents from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs speak to a preoccupation with their regional rival Iran.

The presidential vote will be a rematch of the 2013 poll that pit incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta against his ex rival, former prime minister Raila Odinga.

The recipient was Kirill Voprosov, but Team Russia was guaranteed to win this medal his opponent in the repechage final was fellow countryman, Kirill Denisov.

Compare that to his rival John McCain, who talked about change, but to most Europeans represented the opposite.

These grand statements come in advance of Moscow s September 8 mayoral election, which will pit Navalny against incumbent city chief Sergey Sobyanin.

Kissinger works personally with the Chinese account, jointly propounding with his long time rival Zbigniew Brzezinski the notion, so seductive for an America growing weary of its imperial burden, of a global Big Two.

The 18th century would see England (after 1707, Britain) rise to be the world's dominant colonial power, and France becoming its main rival on the imperial stage.

On the day before a match against Barcelona in the group stage of the Champions League, Roma midfielder, Daniele De Rossi, noted the importance of staying compact and having each other's back in a game against such a strong opponent.

Jamaican journalist Kayon Raynor, writing for Reuters news agency, reported on Bolt's confidence that he can defeat arch rival Justin Gatlin

Nonetheless, she has rapidly overtaken Aécio Neves, the Social Democratic Party (PSDB) candidate, as the main challenger to Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent President and Workers Party (PT) candidate.

Vronsky always disliked him and now considered him his most dangerous rival, and he was vexed with him for galloping past and so exciting Frou Frou.

Opposing President Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general seeking a second term on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), is Muhammadu Buhari, another retired general, from the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP).

We should not forget that Morsi s opponent in the presidential election in 2012 was Ahmed Shafik, a former general and the last Mubarak era prime minister certainly no liberal.

NEW YORK After the second debate between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, Obama s supporters chorused in near unison, He s back!

Kenya was saved from the abyss by a shotgun marriage between the country s ethnic Kikuyu president, Mwai Kibaki, and his Luo challenger, Raila Odinga, who was given the post of prime minister.

The government did not identify the entities in question, but four of the journalists arrested work with media outlets affiliated with Hamas, the political rival of the ruling party in the West Bank, Fatah.

In 1999, Unity's main rival was the Fatherland All Russia bloc (OVR), led by ex premier Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who at the time were very popular figures.

When the communist regimes collapsed in 1989, the communist parties of Poland and Hungary transformed themselves into credible democratic left parties that became formidable opponents of the newly emerging political right. No strong social democratic party in Czechoslovakia could emerge from the rigid Czechoslovak Communist Party.

When the communist regimes collapsed in 1989, the communist parties of Poland and Hungary transformed themselves into credible democratic left parties that became formidable opponents of the newly emerging political right.

China, which has pledged 100 billion in initial investment, has positioned the AIIB as a rival to the US dominated World Bank, promising to help Asian countries meet their extensive infrastructure needs.

We console each other when Chelsea loses, and worry together when our team plays big clubs, like recently when they played Liverpool, the only major contender that stood between Chelsea and the English title.

He crossed the majority threshold only because of a pact he made with former president Arnoldo Alemán, once Ortega s rival, who was in jail at the time for corruption.

Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP s nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.

(Small ones were removed from the list when one candidate, running against another whose symbol was a parrot, wrung the neck of a live parrot at a public meeting to signify what he would do to his rival.)

It reached this zenith by surpassing cash strapped Russia long its only rival as a mass imprisonment society after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.