His birthplace is not known, though Aberdeenshire and Galloway have made rival claims. |
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Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism.... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle. |
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At the full flowering of the celebrity age, few accessories rival the chandelier earring for its power to amplify star wattage. |
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Nobody was killed, but a guy from the rival gang was supposed to have had his eyes popped out with a church key. |
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The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities. |
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When Thomas Becket was murdered and subsequently enshrined at Canterbury, York found itself with a rival major draw for pilgrims. |
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According to William Kamkwamba, witches and wizards are afraid of money, which they consider a rival evil. |
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Thus, the creation of a rival institution represented a Tory response to reassert the educational values of The Establishment. |
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Its longtime rankings rival, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is number one for twelve subjects. |
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The readership was the financial community of the City of London, its only rival being the slightly older and more daring Financial News. |
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By the middle of the 15th century England was increasingly divided between the rival royal factions of the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. |
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Religious disagreements between various leading figures led to the emergence of rival Protestant churches. |
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He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. |
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In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds. |
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In 1385 Thomas Usk made glowing mention of Chaucer, and John Gower, Chaucer's main poetic rival of the time, also lauded him. |
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In 1849, rival performances of the play sparked the Astor Place Riot in Manhattan. |
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Reportedly, she broke off their relationship upon accepting marriage to a wealthier man, Bacon's rival, Edward Coke. |
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Included within the notes are occasional attacks upon rival editors of Shakespeare's works. |
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Meanwhile, he had to cope with rival claims of publishers Gollancz and Warburg for publishing rights. |
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Such funding became harder to obtain after the launch in 1730 of the Opera of the Nobility, a rival company to his own. |
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Columbia's main rival, HMV, issued recordings of some of the same repertoire, with an unnamed orchestra conducted by Albert Coates. |
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In 1964 a rival Panamanian politician shot Arias, leaving him a quadriplegic for the rest of his life. |
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Red roses symbolised the English House of Lancaster, while white roses were the symbol for their rival House of York. |
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The British showed a more profound interest in sports, and in greater variety, than any rival. |
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It now has a commercial rival called TalkSport, but this has not acquired anywhere near as many exclusive contracts as Sky Sports. |
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The two rival Darts World Championships have been held in the United Kingdom since their inception. |
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England was chosen as host of the 1966 World Cup in Rome, Italy on 22 August 1960, over rival bids from West Germany and Spain. |
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A new Second Division was formed in 1892 with the absorption of the rival Football Alliance. |
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Leicester City are Forest's other East Midlands rival due to the close proximity of the two cities. |
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However, a 2012 survey has shown that Chelsea fans consider Tottenham to be their main rival, above Arsenal and Manchester United. |
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Friction with his father led Ryder to move south to London to join a rival seed merchant. |
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When rival Mike Hawthorn was threatened with a penalty after the Portuguese Grand Prix, Moss defended him. |
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In the sprint race, though he finished second with Piquet sixth, he finished twelve points clear of his rival. |
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Jacques Villeneuve won seven races during 1997, compared to five wins by his main rival, Michael Schumacher of a resurgent Ferrari. |
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This approach was implemented due to efforts in place by rival Japanese automakers Toyota and Nissan. |
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Complaints were issued to the FIA from rival teams, but they were discarded by the sport's governing body. |
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To create his own claim to the throne of Jerusalem, Charles executed one rival and purchased the rights to the city from another. |
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This caused consternation to Henry, who feared the establishment of a rival Norman state in Ireland. |
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The two rival official campaigns suspended their activities as a mark of respect to Cox. |
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This caused consternation to Henry II, who feared the establishment of a rival Norman state in Ireland. |
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By the end of the 1920s, the Labour Party had replaced the Liberals as the Conservatives' main rival. |
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Victory over Napoleonic France left the British without any serious international rival, other than perhaps Russia in central Asia. |
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The ceasefire notwithstanding, sectarian killings actually escalated in 1975, along with internal feuding between rival paramilitary groups. |
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In more recent times, Qatar has hosted peace talks between rival factions across the globe. |
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In the London literary world, he was a rival of Henry Fielding, and the two responded to each other's literary styles in their own novels. |
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However, in the 17th century, critics saw the romance as of epic length and the novel as its short rival. |
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Nonetheless, when the Edison firm merged with the rival Bell Telephone Company, Shaw chose not to seek a place in the new organisation. |
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Some later work, however, was created to rival or complement the manner of the Dutch artist. |
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Set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. |
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Since then, Ireland has become the team's main rival, the two teams having played each other many times in their short histories. |
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During peak years of violent crime in the city, gun battles between rival cartels, and between cartels and the police, erupted in public. |
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He met his death at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278 in a war with his rival, King Rudolph I of Germany. |
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Both she and Voltaire were also curious about the philosophies of Gottfried Leibniz, a contemporary and rival of Newton. |
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Disraeli's major rival, William Ewart Gladstone, also pursued Rosebery, with considerable success. |
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The Steller's sea eagle, larger in both weight and total length, is the closest rival for median wingspan amongst living eagles. |
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On 27 October, Henry McLeish was elected to succeed Dewar, defeating rival Jack McConnell. |
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However, The Royal Bank of Scotland tabled a rival offer, and a bitter takeover battle ensued, with the Royal Bank the victor. |
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The two rival colleges often clashed, sometimes in court, but also in brawls between students on the streets of Aberdeen. |
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Jones had mentioned the fact of his amour, and of his being the rival of Blifil, but had cautiously concealed the name of the young lady. |
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Their formatting and organization is far and away better than their closest rival. |
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The Socialist Party was saved, though not from the fissive tendency that saw its rival factions split away. |
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What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one? |
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A friendly local king, Mandubracius, was installed, and his rival, Cassivellaunus, was brought to terms. |
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His sometime rival Severus promised him the title of Caesar in return for Albinus's support against Pescennius Niger in the east. |
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The conference was cut short, however, when news reached Licinius that his rival Maximin had crossed the Bosporus and invaded European territory. |
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For the first few years of his reign he had to face two strong rival kings, Wihtred of Kent and Ine of Wessex. |
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In the autumn of that same year, two rival claimants to the throne led invasions of England in short succession. |
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All declared their support for Richard provided that he support Guy against his rival Conrad of Montferrat. |
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Henry I had the marriage annulled to avoid strengthening William's rival claim to Normandy. |
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The peace remained precarious, however, and Stephen's second son William remained a possible future rival to Henry. |
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All declared their support for Richard provided that he support Guy against his rival, Conrad of Montferrat. |
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Bruce and his supporters killed a rival for the throne, John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch on 10 February 1306 at Greyfriars Church in Dumfries. |
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Victory over Napoleon left Britain without any serious international rival, other than Russia in Central Asia. |
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His rival Gladstone, a Liberal distrusted by the Queen, served more terms and oversaw much of the overall legislative development of the era. |
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The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. |
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However, this system broke down in 2000 when 12 rival candidates declared for the job and the debate occupied an entire Parliamentary day. |
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The Kingpin had instructed his Kossack cultists to support Brown's Democratic primary rival, Paul Hackett. |
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On her way to Scotland in 1290, however, Margaret died at sea, and Edward was again asked to adjudicate between 13 rival claimants to the throne. |
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Plans were drawn up to make Ripon a centre of education, a University of the North, to rival Oxford and Cambridge. |
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I can imagine the man... prepared to oppress rival firms, overthrow inconvenient monarchs, and let loose the dogs of war. |
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Violent gangs of the urban unemployed, controlled by rival Senators, intimidated the electorate through violence. |
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Following Cnut's reforms, excessive power was concentrated in the hands of the rival houses of Leofric of Mercia and Godwine of Wessex. |
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After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper. The entente cordiale did not last, of course. |
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It was not until 1847 that Ben Nevis was confirmed by the Ordnance Survey as the highest mountain in Britain and Ireland, ahead of its rival Ben Macdhui. |
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He eventually recovered to finish second behind Championship rival Vettel. |
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The colonists faced high rates of death due to many reasons, including disease, starvation, inefficient resupply, conflict with Indians, and attacks by rival European powers. |
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The nature of the struggle changed significantly when Robert the Bruce, Earl of Carrick, killed his rival John Comyn on 10 February 1306 at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries. |
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The 18th century saw England, and after 1707 Great Britain, rise to become the world's dominant colonial power, with France its main rival on the imperial stage. |
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In political terms he is a partisan of his native Northumbria, amplifying its role in English history over and above that of Mercia, its great southern rival. |
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A hoodlumish mob of Democrats attacked a rival speaker at Smithfield, and the Republican chairman telegraphed Governor Russell for troops, a request with which he complied. |
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American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times. |
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Da Porto gave Romeo and Juliet most of its modern form, including the names of the lovers, the rival families of Montecchi and Capuleti, and the location in Verona. |
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In 2006, Disney's High School Musical made use of Romeo and Juliet's plot, placing the two young lovers in rival high school cliques instead of feuding families. |
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After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. |
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Stalin was aware that the Americans were working on the atomic bomb and, given that the Soviets' own rival program was in place, he reacted to the news calmly. |
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The former BMI routes will continue with rival airline British Airways. |
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He won what many historians consider to be the most dramatic Isle of Man race of all time, the 1967 Senior TT against his great rival, Giacomo Agostini. |
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Byron initially stayed on the island of Kephalonia, where he was besieged by agents of the rival Greek factions, all of whom wanted to recruit Byron to their own cause. |
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When Raymond van Barneveld switched to the PDC in 2006, the tournament organisers agreed with the BDO to invite four players from the rival organisation. |
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The royal favourite, whose husband had been called to the Upper House as Baron Masham, deserted her old friend and relation for his more vivacious rival. |
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Instead, Hendry became the new king, with Jimmy White as his main rival. |
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Although the names of the rival houses derive from the cities of York and Lancaster, the corresponding duchies had little to do with these cities. |
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He thus reunited the two royal houses, merging the rival symbols of the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York into the new emblem of the red and white Tudor Rose. |
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Edward was the son of George, Duke of Clarence, and as such he presented a threat as a potential rival to the new King Henry VII for the throne of England. |
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The company itself was founded as a joint stock company, similarly to its English rival that had been founded two years earlier, the English East India Company. |
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America won, finishing 8 minutes ahead of the closest rival. |
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Adam's main rival was William Chambers, another Scot, but born in Sweden. |
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Now at peace with its main rival, English attention shifted from preying on other nations' colonial infrastructures to the business of establishing its own overseas colonies. |
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This can sometimes be part of a reciprocal deal, as when multiple airlines are part of the same alliance, or as a ploy to attract premium customers away from rival airlines. |
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Many rival canal companies were formed and competition was rampant. |
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Fox, who became Pitt's lifelong political rival, then joined a coalition with Lord North, with whom he collaborated to bring about the defeat of the Shelburne administration. |
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Wellesley's final battle against his rival Soult occurred at Toulouse, where the Allied divisions were badly mauled storming the French redoubts, losing some 4,600 men. |
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Many sports had rival bodies, one Unionist and affiliated to a United Kingdom parent, the other Republican and opposed to any link with Great Britain. |
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Cardiff faced a challenge in the 1880s when David Davies of Llandinam and the Barry Railway Company promoted the development of rival docks at Barry. |
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The Conservative Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United Kingdom, the other being its modern rival, the Labour Party. |
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Belfast saw some of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, particularly in the 1970s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. |
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She was soon joined by rival challenger Owen Smith, prompting Eagle to withdraw on 19 July 2016 in order to ensure there was only one challenger on the ballot. |
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The highest profile rival of the team is the Australian team, with which it competes for The Ashes, one of the most famous trophies in British sport. |
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Because of its distinctive culture within the United States, only Alaska is Louisiana's rival in popularity as a setting for reality television programs. |
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Civil war between rival emperors became common in the middle of the 4th century, diverting soldiers from the empire's frontier forces and allowing invaders to encroach. |
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Ecclesiastical officials convened at the Council of Constance in 1414, and in the following year the council deposed one of the rival popes, leaving only two claimants. |
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As a result, however, the rival dynastic lines clashed, often violently. |
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The strongest figure in the cabinet was Rosebery's rival, Harcourt. |
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It is also possible the founding of another college in nearby Fraserburgh by Sir Alexander Fraser, a business rival of Keith, was instrumental in its creation. |
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The launching of Jetstar allowed Qantas to rival Virgin Australia without the criticism being affiliated with Qantas because of the distinct brand name. |
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A more homely programme Gwlad y Gan was produced by rival channel TWW which set classic Welsh songs in idyllic settings and starred baritone Ivor Emmanuel. |
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In 1892 the Football League absorbed 11 of the 12 clubs in the rival Football Alliance after it folded, meaning the League now had enough clubs to form another division. |
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Winehouse was signed to Island, as rival interest in Winehouse had started to build to include representatives of EMI and Virgin starting to make moves. |
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In general, any international match of the Czech ice hockey or football national team draws attention, especially when played against a traditional rival. |
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A prominent IOC member, Marc Hodler, strongly connected with the rival bid of Sion, Switzerland, alleged bribery of IOC officials by members of the Turin Organising Committee. |
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Later that month, as defending Open champion, Faldo was involved in a memorable duel with rival Greg Norman in the Open Championship at Royal St George's Golf Club. |
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His goal was to cripple the industries of Germany's main European rival. |
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Following his win over BJ Flores in October, WBC Cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew immediately hit out a verbal assault on rival Haye, who was ringside, repeating he's next. |
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In addition to this, de Brus sent separate messages both to King Felim and a rival dynast, Cathal Ua Conchobair, promising to support them if they withdrew. |
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Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival. |
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He remained with Manor for another year and won the championship with ten wins and 419 points to the two wins and 377 points of his nearest rival, Alex Lloyd. |
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