It was a competition.

Here, however, the Commission competes with national bureaucracies.

ISIS in Mexico would have too much competition here.

But there are competing pressures on the neighborhood.

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

Competition is not bad in itself.

These two competitions breed rivalries between the houses.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Not only is it occurring in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, directly on Saudi Arabia s borders the kingdom s direct military intervention has brought its strategic rivalry with Iran into the open.

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

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

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).

It is also why there exists an organic connection of India to Central Asia, the key to that link lying in the Himalayas, which is where the India China rivalry is currently focused.

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.

Their strategic watchwords are national rivalry, balance, and hegemony concepts that offer no solution for the future of the region s nations and states.

Ancient rivalries and atavistic feuds may or may not be part of this only future crisis will tell.

The US Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.

There are economic and geopolitical rivalries between China and Japan that dwarf in importance the high profile insults to national pride that make headlines.

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

The frequent description of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as harboring neo Ottoman ambitions for his country clearly implicates this rivalry.