Brides and grooms from all over North and East Yorkshire vied to win a prestigious competition launched to mark a city florist's centenary. |
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Violence and intimidation were almost daily occurrences as the various factions vied for territory. |
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Competing organizations vied for the loyalties of Baptists on the Arkansas frontier. |
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Mataranka is 105 km from Katherine and once vied with Darwin as the capital of the Territory. |
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Cowboys and cowgirls dressed in lavish Western attire vied for attention and prizes. |
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No fewer than 82 of Lithuania's finest competitors vied for honors in this year's event. |
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The teams exchanged penalties early in the game as both vied for supremacy. |
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Remember when roller coasters vied simply to be the tallest, fastest, and scariest, and a log flume ride was just a big splash? |
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Revivalism flourished as Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians vied for converts. |
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Politicians, princes and bigwigs of every stripe vied for a place in their circle and were roundly rejected. |
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The students vied to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered home. |
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Roller gins vied with saw gins for the fuzzy-seed market into the 1820s and remained the preferred gin for long-staple cotton. |
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Didn't he babble the same gobbledygook a decade ago when he vied for the job? |
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A healthy spirit of competitiveness ran intensely among the groups as they vied with each other. |
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At four cafes throughout the village contestants from the Northern Rivers and beyond vied in verse for the lucrative prize money. |
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Most had youthful females, and vied with each other for originality and daring in their costumes. |
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Female contestants vied to tell the weepiest sob story to win the bushel of prizes. |
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Stables, outhouses, hencoops, pigsties, stagnant ponds, and slaughterhouses vied with each other for olfactory attention. |
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Politically the stakes were also getting higher as the Portuguese, Castilian, and French empires all vied for supremacy. |
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Ross vied for a monumental Joan Miro towering over five feet high but dropped out of the bidding. |
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On our walk, multi-hued birds fluttered overhead in the green forest and deodar trees tall as totems from some pantheon of forest gods vied with the pines to needle the sky. |
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In the potlatches of the Chinook, Nootka, and other Pacific Northwest peoples, for example, chiefs vied to give the most blankets and other valuables. |
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At one point, a huge puffer vied for attention with an even bigger hogfish, while an eagle ray dug into the sand beneath an overhang of soft corals. |
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Russia also has military facilities in Kyrgyzstan and in recent years has vied with the United States to win the favor of the Kyrgyz. |
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Disgruntlement among comrades who had vied to take over from the incumbent increases with each passing day. |
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Floor mosaics then openly vied with wall painting in the rendering of space and realistic detail. |
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It started out as the utopian project of a handful of people, where garage rock, psych-jazz, punk and electronica vied for space. |
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They vied with one another in sailboat races, touch football games, tennis matches, and rough-and-tumble fights. |
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For example, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Liverpool area vied with London as the most important production centre for precision timekeepers. |
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Two separate teams were responsible for improvements, two managing directors vied for attention. |
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Obsessed with inventing television, the boy wonder vied with Baird and the Russian national Vladimir Zworykin for the title of the medium's true father. |
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Primal scream and rebirthing therapies vied with more traditional approaches. |
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The spouses of the elder brothers, confident of their talent, each vied for their husbands to claim the throne. |
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Participants vied for medals in traditional events like hockey, curling, sledge hockey and snowshoeing. |
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The meeting was hastily summoned to resolve the dispute over the promotional rights of the tournament when two Cape Town promoters vied to stage it. |
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The first lathes vied with ingenuity to achieve the formidable efficiency of the time, despite the rudimentary tooling. |
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During the 19th century, the British and Russian empires vied for control of the region. |
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In the past, they have all vied with each other to increase social exclusion and poverty and they are continuing to do so now. |
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Mass media all vied in publishing statements that Russian Expo Arms ran out of steam. |
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By the end of the century, Ontario vied with Quebec as the nation's leader in terms of growth in population, industry, arts and communications. |
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In all 637 candidates vied for the 127 seats at stake. 80 per cent of outgoing TIM members were not re-nominated by the party. |
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They vied for savings stamps in school contests, made gift boxes, quilts, socks, sweaters and mitts for troops. |
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So, ministers, dignitaries and senior officials of the country wore a fez ruddy color and pavanèrent who vied. |
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Children in all kinds of outfits vied with each other to receive gifts from radio jockey Ajai, who was dressed as the paunchy Santa Claus for the event. |
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The final round was a battle of nerves as the teams vied for top honours. |
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A total of 22 contestants vied for honours mixing some heady brews. |
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However, the oil spill, the Times Square bombing, the McChrystal firing, and the Blagojevich trial have all vied for his focus. |
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During the electoral campaign, which got underway on 8 June 2002, 4,769 candidates from 12 political parties vied for the 114 seats in the National Assembly, with an electorate estimated at some 4.5 million citizens. |
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In what can be described as a reckless race to the bottom, Canadian OTA broadcasters have vied with each other, year after year, in paying more and more for U. S. programming. |
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Just look at the figures: 7.5 million Iraqis turned out to cast ballots, and 14,000 candidates, representing 400 political entities, vied for 440 seats. |
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The Graphic 45 Domestic Goddess Collection is a playful celebration of the days when women proudly wore aprons and vied for blue ribbons at the county fair. |
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Over the centuries since then the master sword-makers of Seki have vied with one another for the honor of producing swords so perfect that they would bear comparison with works of art. |
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But alongside goalscorer Vitaly Kutuzov, below, the Arsenal playmaker vied for the tag of man-of-the-match. |
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An active member of the yacht club, he served as secretary, vice-president and president at various times and donated a silver trophy known as the Notman Cup to be vied for annually. |
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Scotland entered an uncertain period as the leading nobles vied for the vacant crown. |
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For the first time, multiple candidates vied for this position and CGC salutes Nicole Forrester and Suzanne Weckend for their interest in running for the Board. |
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And ministers from Bastiat's own country, France, have vied with one another to denounce all talk of further reform to the EU's common agricultural policy. |
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Boston stand-up comedians vied for the right to compete through a series of open mic nights at Boston Bass accounts this spring. |
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In eastern DRC, greed, corruption and economic interests have vied with regional power politics to impoverish the people and entrap them in a persistent cycle of violence. |
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The Rideau Canal was built at a time when two powers, Great Britain and the United States of America, vied for the control of the northern portion of the North American continent. |
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As we already heard this morning, some hon. members vied with each other in predicting the end of French communities outside Quebec, backing this up with alarming figures on their assimilation. |
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In summer, the area vied with the Mediterranean. |
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Owing to the unequal nature of globalization, poorer States vied with each other to attract investment and refrained from involving all stakeholders in negotiations with investors. |
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News quickly spread that he could heal the sick and even raise people from the dead, his fame preceding him on his missionary voyages, and the sick vied for his presence. |
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Joiners and other craftsmen vied with one another to build models that would show their skills to best advantage, and sold their products in places as far away as London. |
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Each player then vied against all players from the opposition, with one point awarded for winning a match. |
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In 2003, several strong challengers vied for the right to sail for the cup in Auckland during the challenger selection series. |
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With the political stage cleared of socialists, the warlords, some of them Islamist, vied for power. |
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Power was instead vied with other faction leaders in the southern half of Somalia and with autonomous subnational entities in the north. |
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Japan was at war during the Sengoku Period between 1467 and 1590, as feudal lords vied for supremacy. |
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Nations vied for domination of lucrative trade routes around the globe, particularly those to Asia. |
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In succeeding years, supporters of a centralised state vied with those in favour of a loose federation and a strong role for tribally based local kingdoms. |
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Both were heirs apparent, and vied for approval from their king. |
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Venice's leading families vied with each other to build the grandest palaces and support the work of the greatest and most talented artists. |
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But that demand was overcome, the port thrived and Gioia Tauro has vied with Algeciras in recent years to be the Mediterranean's biggest transhipment hub. |
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The Ottoman court and upper classes as well as an increasing European market vied for plates like this one as well as jugs and bowls decorated with roses, hyacinths, tulips and carnations. |
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Here a mechanistic neurophysiological model vied with a more organismic, phylogenetic one in ways that demonstrate Freud's complicated debt to the science of his day. |
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Western Mongolian Oirats and Eastern Mongolian Khalkhas vied for domination in Mongolia since the 15th century and this conflict weakened Mongolian strength. |
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The resulting feud between Hoffman and the Weiders, where money, power, and ego were at stake, consumed about two decades, as both parties vied for control of muscledom. |
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There were two parallel legal systems, one under the aegis of the church, the other under the crown, that continuously vied for jurisdiction and power. |
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With the Soviets already occupying most of Central and Eastern Europe, Stalin was at an advantage and the two western leaders vied for his favors. |
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A prominent feature of the resort was the promenade and the pleasure piers, where an eclectic variety of performances vied for the people's attention. |
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Moreover, Dr Wetenhall was loathe to follow the current museum trend of hiring a 'starchitect' and raising spectacular new buildings that vied to outdazzle their contents. |
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The ensuing Cold War also created instabilities among Portuguese overseas populations, as the United States and Soviet Union vied to increase their spheres of influence. |
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From the middle decades of the 17th century and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. |
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During the 19th century, Britain and the Russian Empire vied to fill the power vacuums that had been left by the declining Ottoman Empire, Qajar dynasty and Qing Dynasty. |
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