But there are competing pressures on the neighborhood.

It was a competition.

ISIS in Mexico would have too much competition here.

If partnership is replaced by rivalry and rivalry becomes hostility both Europe and America will be the losers.

If there is a formal leadership contest, it seems likely that several rival candidates will aim to stand.

For China, the Afghan contest will most likely turn out to be a very measured combination of chess and weiqi.

Competition is not bad in itself.

These two competitions breed rivalries between the houses.

Medical research has always faced many challenges, even when the scientific quest was simply one of discovery.

Of course, inter tribal rivalries are strong in eastern Libya.

A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.

The ruling elite are known to be torn by disputes and rivalries.

Here, however, the Commission competes with national bureaucracies.

However, the contest is more accurately seen as one between an open and an introverted Turkey between civilian, democratic rule and military tutelage and between a globalizing and a protectionist economy.

Terror is a term that obscures rather than clarifies these long standing clashes and rivalries.

Despite the intensity of their rivalry, Bird and Johnson became friends off the court.

Nor can the political climate, old differences, and the by no means new power rivalry between Russia and the US justify pessimism.

The ideological and military confrontation that underlay it is gone, but the geopolitical rivalry that it entailed has returned to the fore. Thus, the old mentality survived on both sides.

MADRID The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back.

Yet, despite the rivalry of nations and the bloodiness of modern warfare, democracy is spreading.

It was at that crossroads that Israel and Iran, two powers vying for mastery in a rapidly changing Middle East, chose to cast their strategic competition in ideological terms.

A tight contest between the two Democrats, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, has yet to be resolved.

A divisive transatlantic rivalry offers no ethical or political basis for an enlightened European approach.

Second, Turkey s turn toward the east is not ideologically or religiously inspired, but instead is based on solid strategic and economic calculations as the fluid situation in the Middle East continues to develop, Turkey will adapt its policies accordingly.

First, the Arab Spring, and especially the Syrian uprising, exposed the two sides underlying rivalry for influence in the Middle East and the Arab world.

In the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, old rivalries now unfold in a nuclear context.

But here, regional politics must be taken into account, especially the continuing rivalry between India and Pakistan.

But, despite the rivalries and all the chatter, it is clear that Asians are coming closer together.

But, while these issues are important, both sides should pursue diplomatic efforts to minimize Sino American rivalry over them and thus avoid embarking on a new cold war.

But countries desire to stop mass murder in their neighborhood, or to enforce regional norms, has its own force.

The way in which the Saudi Iranian rivalry is playing out in Syria is a prominent example.

Moreover, rival Sino Japanese claims to the Senkaku (or Diao Yutai) Islands resurfaced last year when the Japanese government leased three islets in the chain from private parties.

If the Middle East is already at a breaking point, imagine what could happen if competition for Middle East oil intensifies among America, Europe, China, India, Japan, and others.

Tensions in the Middle East, and growing rivalry between the US and Venezuela, will make Brazil an attractive supplier.

Indeed, from this point began the fatal rivalry between Japan and the US that culminated in Pearl Harbor.

But Ivanov, who is perceived as strong, would provide unwelcome competition to Putin, who, after all, remains a strong president.

The Sunni Shia rivalry means that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries will concede no meaningful role to Iran.

Indeed, the growing contest between India and China is not only military in nature, but also concerns the acquisition of natural resources.

Rivalries within and among the military services once mimicked the role of competition in the private sector they drove innovation.

Nevertheless, developing countries have been falling over each other to establish export zones and subsidize assembly operations of multinational enterprises.

Many foreign commentators described the presidential and parliamentary elections as a contest between Turkey s secular past and a putative Islamist future.

Interstate or regional rivalry down under is present in a lot of Australian English terms (both geographical references in the sentence above carry derogatory connotations).

Historical rivalries, vendettas, and weapons are widespread among Libya s tribesmen, which suggest that tribal warfare in the post Qaddafi era is likely.

Russia s return to the world stage means that new and old rivalries will develop and may even intensify in the future.

This dynamism could lead to instability, owing to multiple sources of mistrust and the lack of strong regional institutions to help manage rivalries.