| Their rivals generally refuse to relinquish their weapons, fearing that in a pinch the government will rearm or fight on behalf of their enemy. |
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| Focused on fast ships capable of 31 knots, this has put the wind up rivals, few of which have the resources to match this kind of investment. |
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| A new study shows air pollution in some national parks is so bad it rivals the smog in major cities. |
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| Or was it, as his rivals claim, merely window dressing designed to conceal as well as reveal? |
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| We had a swimming pool while our nearest rivals were still jumping in puddles. |
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| A few words of mockery and sarcasm might have slipped, but generally, we were certainly not arch rivals. |
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| The league is over and all thoughts must now turn to May 22 and a showdown with old rivals, Cork. |
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| Without a care in the world, he has negotiated hairpin bends at gravity-defying angles and roared past rivals in the blink of an eye. |
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| However, most of them are too busy slandering their rivals and revealing unconfirmed personal irregularities than presenting trustful visions. |
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| Retired Probation officer Tony Bowman is showing a clean pair of heels to many of his rivals on the athletics track. |
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| It also has a class and breeding that sets it apart from its similarly priced German rivals. |
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| It is pathetic though to see the TN government indulge in one-upmanship with political rivals over the elimination of Veerappan. |
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| Wash it down with some micro-brewed beer that rivals the brewmasters' of Germany. |
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| Paul Wrebber's nine-year-old has taken well to fences this season and I expect him to show a clean pair of heels to his six rivals. |
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| Sulamani was not too well away and gave most of his rivals plenty of start. |
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| But such was the bad blood between the two rivals that neither would agree to a joint news conference later that day. |
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| Helicopters frantically shuttled crews out in near snow-blind conditions to stake suspected diamond pipes before their rivals. |
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| Commentators analysed how the Japanese industrial model had triumphed over its rivals. |
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| Promotion rivals Leigh have already sounded him out, but the Reds are not prepared to see the big three-quarter slip through their net. |
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| Unsurprisingly, her first full international against bitter rivals England in 1973 is one she will always remember. |
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| Brown also used his speech to deliver a series of thinly veiled warnings to his rivals in the higher echelons of the government. |
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| On the other hand, perhaps they saw the law on presidential elections as a chance to nobble their rivals before they even got to the start line. |
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| Police surmise the man was led to the area and was killed there by rivals over a business conflict or a personal vendetta. |
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| Driven mad, he wanders the blasted heath as his rivals watch the clan destroy itself. |
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| Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William. |
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| Company ships armed to fight pirates also defeated trading rivals and monopolized foreign trade. |
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| Yule trains alongside his rivals, and admits that he sneaks the odd sideways glance at them. |
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| In the dying moments of the championships Edwards saw his triple jump hopes dashed by a succession of incredible jumps from his rivals. |
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| I hope, when the patent goes through, they sue the shizzle out of their rivals and demand a lot of money in damages. |
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| She is the last of what is now a dying breed, female serve and volleyers, which always puts her a step ahead of her younger rivals at Wimbledon. |
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| I also urge the martial arts club to stop spray-painting offensive slogans about our rivals on the walls. |
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| Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, Mayflower, wood lily, purple aster, apple blossom, and the evening primrose. |
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| But a number of the rivals bidding for the contract have now warned that they are unconvinced by the declaration. |
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| All those years ago, for example, pot fishermen regarded divers as their deadliest rivals for the shellfish of the sea. |
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| According to the soldiers themselves, cross-dressing is a military mind game, a tactic that instills fear in their rivals. |
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| Gott ran a well-judged race, shadowing one of his rivals and overhauling him in a sprint finish to win bronze medal. |
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| For the second time this season at Spotland stadium Oldham were edged out by one point against fierce local rivals Rochdale Hornets. |
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| Now her boyfriend Adam Brown, 21, is keeping a close watch on possible rivals to make sure they don't try and steal a kiss from his girl. |
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| Whatever the result at Starbeck, three points at Glasshoughton will steal a march on at least one of their rivals as the title race hots up. |
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| Their emboldened foreign rivals will be working just as hard to capitalize on their gains. |
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| Despite his sometimes shabby behavior, he has nobility of spirit compared to the bigger-budget showbiz types who are his rivals. |
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| Amongst his rivals is the great enigma of Irish steeplechasing, Florida Pearl. |
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| Traditional enemies and trade rivals were the Cree and Ojibwa to the north and east. |
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| Only bitter rivals New Zealand provide stern opposition, but recently the Aussies have been getting the better of these encounters. |
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| Janine beat more experienced rivals to win the senior traditional Kata coloured belt section at the Yorkshire Karate Championships in Morley. |
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| A relatively obscure virtualisation system has leapfrogged better-known rivals. |
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| The rivals not only have deeper pockets, they are less careful than the canny Tike on how they spend their cash. |
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| This helped him prepare better against lesser-known rivals and dramatically increased his percentage of victories, particularly in the Olympiads. |
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| It got to such a pitch that all other Olympic rivals paled into insignificance. |
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| Copmanthorpe defeated their closest rivals North Duffield to retain their lead at the top of Division Three. |
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| But the toothlessness of their side, a perennial problem, made for morsels that, ultimately, were easily digested by their rivals. |
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| Ridden by Darryll, she still had three of her five rivals in front of her entering the final furlong of the mile-and-a-half trip. |
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| Impresarios are for opera, theatre and the circus, where you do not have to confront your rivals head-to-head. |
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| Three weeks after he beat his most titled rivals to become the national champion. |
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| The glorious flower color of the hedgehog cactus rivals that of the desert sunset. |
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| Many arrests proved doubtful with large numbers of detainees held on flimsy evidence after politically motivated tip-offs by local rivals. |
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| What he needs more than his rivals is a compelling issue to give his candidacy heft. |
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| This person, because of his low bid, will miss out on the opportunity to own the car altogether since his rivals will simply outbid him. |
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| I don't want to risk the mercs coming back here, nor do I want to invite any of my rivals to attempt an attack while this place is in disrepair. |
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| We will be in the Pyrenees in the first week of the race so hopefully Roberto can hit the first time trial with a good advantage on his rivals. |
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| Both clubs' motivation is to beat their rivals and claim top spot in the county. |
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| In those early days she consistently outpaced her rivals including giant steamboats. |
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| The Palm OS outshines its rivals through its ability to combine application variety with compatibility. |
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| He also loves to practise and you can clearly see the enjoyment derived from competing against and beating his rivals. |
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| He said that the Sport's Court decision was not fair and had been made in favour of his rivals for the champion's title. |
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| Camille is grand melodrama that rivals the theatrics of the most tawdry soap opera. |
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| The two rivals have been engaged in previous tough tussles for the national championship title. |
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| At his best when forcing the pace, he can show his rivals a clean pair of heels on this fast circuit. |
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| The world looks on with bated breath as two old rivals get together moulding their swords into sickles and ploughshares. |
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| Once again he hit the ground running and his early pace had him clear of his rivals before the bend. |
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| Ultimately, both chains seem to be losing out to rivals that appeal overtly to the more health-conscious. |
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| Promoted to the rank of pasha in April 1916, he was virtually exiled by his Young Turk rivals to the eastern front. |
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| A price war, he warns his prospective rivals, will serve neither party's interests. |
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| Vu again shot away from the start, rowing more comfortably than his heavier rivals in the choppy water. |
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| The ground will be a crucial factor in determining Grimes chance, while there are plenty of rivals in there to make it hot for him. |
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| After half-an-hour he lost Roy Keane, but they still hardly broke sweat as they swept their rivals aside with ease. |
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| When its rivals violate its collective interest, all clansmen act together to defend the clan's interest. |
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| The Bavarians barely held on last season, needing a late fade by their rivals to claim their seventh German title in 10 years. |
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| The pair owe their early elevation to the fact that they are playing first-team football while older rivals are not. |
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| He is a past master at this, taking delight in embarrassing his rivals on the road. |
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| But Swansea were worthy of their spirited success in a typical blood and thunder derby between Wales's oldest rivals. |
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| Hundreds of Wharfedale supporters will be heading to Harrogate tomorrow hoping their nearest rivals are in clement mood. |
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| Allan has other ideas, of course, and a bid for one or other of his rivals now looks certain. |
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| Australia play rivals New Zealand while the Americans, two-times defending gold medallists, tip off against Greece. |
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| There may be more consolidation to come, which might even see some of the smaller players absorbed into their larger rivals. |
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| A businesswoman was sectioned by rivals intent on seizing her financial interests. |
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| In Hebrews we also meet the strong protests of the jealous God, who is intolerant of rivals with a holy intolerance. |
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| Cheese is huge business in a town where the community of Holsteins and Jerseys rivals the human population in size. |
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| In an era where competition has become intense, quality has come to be acknowledged as the key to maintaining an edge over rivals. |
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| Last season he coached the peewee team to the league title but fell to rivals Surrey and Richmond in the provincial playdowns. |
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| He added that more new destinations for next summer would be announced soon, but he did not want to tell his rivals which they were. |
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| It is naive to think that the new rulers in Kabul will willingly hand power over to some rainbow coalition of their ethnic rivals. |
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| Sharp and funny, this adaptation also sees Colin Firth and Hugh Grant square up for a comedy barney as love rivals. |
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| The quality of the displays rivals the Smithsonian, and the centerpiece is a life-size recreation of a Pequot village. |
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| But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals. |
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| Asustek is best known for producing good products at top whack, but this leaves it vulnerable to lower-price, bigger volume rivals. |
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| The result has seen them gain ground on rivals Spain and France but they are still well adrift of leaders Brazil. |
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| Women manifestly have the ability to detect rivals and to employ a variety of tactics to place themselves at an advantage over them. |
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| The country, or countries, able to establish control over this vital resource will secure a major advantage over their international rivals. |
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| Some big companies have started acting like vultures by bidding for bankrupt rivals at auction, accelerating consolidation. |
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| One candidate knows that if Giblets's rivals are elected president he could transform into a pack of ravenous wolves and eat your children. |
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| Once bitter rivals, they were effectively forced together as the unwinding of Japan's keiretsu led to increased rivalry at home. |
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| This British musical certainly holds its own against Hollywood rivals of the same era, although the chorus lines tend to be slightly wobbly. |
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| It's normal that the two big rivals in any league will always have a go at each other. |
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| The wildness of Behn's life easily rivals that of any of the characters in her plays. |
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| But they failed on a number of counts and, in so doing, handed the initiative to one of their main rivals. |
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| In response, the bureau is redeploying agents into counterterrorism and working more closely with the CIA and other intelligence rivals. |
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| In fact, word has it that the unbelieving William III even referred petitioners he turned away to his vanquished rivals. |
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| Leonardo and Michelangelo, rivals in everything, were both men of the world and men of business. |
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| In almost unplayable conditions Blackburn produced their worst performance of the season against local rivals Bolton. |
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| The medium-weight, alembic distilled vodka immediately washes the palate with a lavish array of raspberry flavors that rivals the real thing. |
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| Using that tort settlement, the big brands have hampered tiny cut-rate rivals and raised prices with near impunity. |
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| In other words, the ruling combine, by consolidating itself, was instrumental in helping its rivals close ranks. |
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| Prior to the start of the Tour, the press and public alike pinpoint potential rivals, but they never live up to the billing. |
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| Customization seems to be one area where Google will lag behind its rivals. |
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| For the past 20 years, Real Madrid's team of all-stars have headed south to face their fiercest rivals. |
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| In front of a capacity crowd of 8,000 at the Sheffield Arena, Lampkin eclipsed his rivals with a dominant display of inch-perfect riding. |
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| It seemed like yesterday that we were bitter rivals, so recent since we wanted to kill each other. |
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| Most of the time, however, the two rivals were amiable and pleased with each other's achievements. |
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| Their effortless and witty repartee rivals any comedy duo that came before or after. |
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| None of his rivals had a record that even began to compare with his, but the past counted for nothing now. |
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| He may boast a freshness his rivals do not have after his lengthy lay-off from the sport. |
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| Street gang the Deuces are feuding with their drug-dealing rivals the Vipers. |
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| Chelsea held a 12-point lead over their nearest rivals, and continually found ways to win. |
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| The British athlete ran a personal best to win the 400m and gain a one point lead over his rivals. |
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| Going into the final day, Real Madrid had a one-point lead over bitter rivals Barcelona, who had not topped the table all season. |
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| H looked lead-footed trying to manoeuvre in the pre-start against rivals who have been perfecting these dark arts for years. |
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| The great rivals to the Shonas are the Ndebeles, who are offshoots of the Zulus. |
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| Mrs Nokes proffered a hand, and the fierce rivals shook tersely before leaving the stage. |
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| It seems he was given to going around in Zuni costume, but, his rivals complained, it was not strictly authentic. |
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| In high tech, the assumption is that developing proprietary software and content gives you higher margins and a long lead time over rivals. |
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| Triceratops likely used its horns to impress mates, shoo off rivals, or argue for territorial ownership. |
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| The petty point-scoring highlights the deepening antagonism between the rivals. |
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| They are seasoned, hardened competitors who usually leave rivals licking their wounds. |
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| You'd dial the number, then keep the line open while you encouraged the whole of the web to blitz it, thus scooping all of your rivals. |
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| Sure to have benefitted from that pipe-opener, Dancing Mystery can show his rivals a clean pair of heels in tomorrow's valuable curtain-raiser. |
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| I also study all the games played by my rivals in the forthcoming competition. |
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| Thus the effort to win leads to ever-shifting patterns of cooperation and competition among rivals. |
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| The company is facing stiff competition from rivals that have launched new products such as DVD players and televisions. |
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| They focus on the process through which firms develop comparative advantages over time so that they can compete effectively with their rivals. |
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| It also proposed allowing governments to resume aid to help EU shipbuilders compete with Korean rivals. |
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| Investors long hoped the company might do the heavy restructuring needed to revive profits and compete with new rivals. |
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| Green Hills Farms developed a powerful customer-loyalty program to help it compete against giant rivals. |
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| Bryan is usually out to beat Vincent, basically because they're rivals and always competing with each other. |
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| Things turned real bad in the last year and they became rivals, competing for everything. |
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| The two U.S rappers died after they were both gunned down in separate incidences by gang rivals. |
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| Over the past four years, we have seen competition mainly from domestic rivals. |
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| Meanwhile, rivals are storming the field, assuring that competition remains cutthroat. |
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| In my view, ATM operators are highly vulnerable to competition from rivals. |
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| This has meant it has been able to roll the service out to the entire country much more quickly than its rivals and at lower cost. |
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| They regard opposition leaders, black and white, not only as political rivals but as dangerous religious heretics. |
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| They cheered when their team scored, cheered even louder when they won but never insulted or made little of their rivals. |
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| The new cabin is one of the most spacious in this class and rivals it for both roominess and quality. |
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| Despite these advantages, many analysts and rivals consider Correnti's effort a long shot. |
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| Their ascension to power would leave Nepal open to closer ties with China and Pakistan, both rivals of India. |
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| It has a bit of an old-fashioned look compared to some of its more dynamic rivals though, and this makes it harder to use in places. |
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| Streetwise Javine tries admirably to stand out from the mass mediocrity of manufactured clones that constitute rivals. |
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| Sitting prime ministers have traditionally fought shy of debating head-to-head with their rivals so close to an election. |
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| They used their speed on the run-in to outpace their rivals for Murphy's second win of the Festival. |
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| Dealers also attributed the rupiah's fall to the dollar's rise against its major rivals and surging oil prices. |
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| It could ease tensions and improve ties between the bitter political rivals. |
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| Some analysts fear that customers fleeing Abercrombie for low-priced rivals won't be back. |
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| He has shown sportsmanship and respect for his rivals in a sport where it is very easy to take the low road. |
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| The Rebuilding Center rivals conventional lumberyards in the variety of materials it offers to builders. |
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| Even her first marriage to Otieno, a Luo, stretched boundaries as she is a Kikuyu, famous rivals of Luos for political and cultural reasons. |
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| Indeed another win tomorrow and defeat for Selby could see Railway leapfrog their North Yorkshire rivals in the table. |
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| But the result will satisfy neither side as they remain in the lower regions of the table with all their rivals still to play today. |
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| If the game does go ahead Harrogate could go top of the table as their main rivals are involved in the Tetley's Bitter Cup. |
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| And Britain continues to lead its Continental rivals in attracting foreign investment. |
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| In the turn, Lion Tamer moved four wide to sail past rivals and seize the lead in early stretch. |
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| Haney is a true sportsman, always magnanimous and complimentary to his rivals. |
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| They are driven by a blind process of competition in which firms vie to grab a larger share of markets and profits than their rivals. |
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| This planned obsolescence is a deliberate attempt to beat the rivals in the survival-of-the-fittest race. |
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| Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals. |
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| There are sure to be fireworks on and off the pitch as these two bitter rivals reacquaint themselves. |
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| The gelding, no back number at the age of nine, can show his junior rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow. |
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| Pampered Princess was positioned between rivals in the backstretch, with Capeside Lady to her outside. |
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| With no love lost between the rivals, there were two clear camps as 78 tellers flicked through the ballot papers. |
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| On Sunday Oaks played away to rivals Long Lee and lost 1-0 despite being on top for most of the game. |
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| Fierce price competition from rivals coupled with sluggish overall demand led to the stagnating revenues of the past three fiscal years. |
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| Is this overconfidence, or a confident leader's bid to demoralize rivals and sway floating votes? |
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| Symbian's rivals have been tagging the company as Nokia's poodle for a couple of years now, and the deal is being widely seen as confirmation. |
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| Extra points would also be awarded to teams that thwart rivals with apparatus such as countrymade pistols, knives, etc. |
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| Atkin says that hard-charging style is what separates the Paris company from rivals content to operate on cruise control. |
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| The local rivals make the short journey across the border from Lancashire today. |
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| Sensing that Nike's lack of a proven sports superstar marketing its shoes spells weakness, rivals are mounting a full-court press. |
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| That year, racing off-road in the Welsh cyclo-cross championship, she beat all her male rivals to the under-12 title. |
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| Both FX experts maintained the dollar's nearest rivals failed to gain significant ground over the same period. |
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| Today I left work early to watch them play their deadly rivals St Hugo's at home and caught the second half. |
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| In a server market with millions of units shipped overall per quarter, it is pounding rivals into the ground with 3,178 sales. |
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| The party earlier won power-sharing deals with the Liberals and the split among its rivals has increased its leverage. |
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| Local rivals Bamber Bridge will provide the opposition on Boxing Day and Easter Monday. |
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| Squeezed by rivals in their own market, British media moguls are gambling on winning new sales here. |
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| Extra points would also be awarded to teams that thwart rivals with apparatus such as dandas, lathis, countrymade pistols, knives, etc. |
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| Evolutionary theory pilots us around biology reliably and predictively, with a detailed and unblemished success that rivals anything in science. |
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| However the Roman prefect of Alexandria was Orestes and Cyril and Orestes became bitter political rivals as church and state fought for control. |
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| There is evidence that larger rivals in the Irish market have been gearing up and restructuring to stop the Anglo business banking juggernaut. |
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| Just a few miles off the highway, Blair is a distinguished prep school with a picturesque campus that rivals most colleges. |
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| Six days earlier the great rivals ended deadlocked on the scoreboard after an exciting sixty minutes. |
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| For now, the cheap financing is mostly helping the auto giant win a price war that its weakened rivals can ill afford. |
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| York play promotion rivals Castlegarth in their final match which may prove to be the promotion decider. |
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| It was a deft bit of footwork but hardly respected the position of their rivals who are the main sponsors of the competition. |
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| Just three years old, this black-tie rivals its senior benefit galas for glam, grace and style. |
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| Lance Armstrong sent that unmistakable message to his rivals this evening in the prologue to the 101st Tour de France. |
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| He has to basically hope that his two rivals stay in the race, continue to split the vote and then he gets on that glide path. |
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| As markets globalise, European exchanges will need to merge with their European rivals or risk oblivion. |
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| He expects it to gain ground on rivals and hopes that this will marginalise his critics. |
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| Having disposed of their Northern rivals Park now face Midlands club Ampthill. |
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| Admittedly, Bean improves rapidly once crowned, and sets about disposing of his rivals with suitable savagery. |
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| Will Celtic resume business by disposing of their city rivals or will this be the start of a Rangers revival? |
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| As he look down upon their rivals from the dizzy heights of pole position, complacency is the only real gremlin to fear. |
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| But there's nothing like a common enemy to get erstwhile rivals to work together. |
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| A British company with a history of taking on larger rivals says it owns six patents affecting software downloads. |
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| He polled a magnificent 195 votes on the first count and completely blew his rivals out of the water. |
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| Paris can afford to undercut rivals thanks to its excellent infrastructure. |
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| Now, it's rivals are scrambling to add multitouch to notebooks, phones, and other digital gadgets. |
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| Others have benefited from a spirit of cooperation, with unaffected companies throwing open their doors to rivals. |
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| Or could it have been, as he implied, jealous rivals who wanted to blacken his name and damage his business? |
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| While most of their main rivals were slipping up, the Tanners beat 10-man Dulwich Hamlet 2-1 on Saturday. |
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| Or do we want them to emerge as resentful rivals in a world permanently divided into hostile trading blocs? |
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| The build-up has the atmosphere of a phoney war as the rivals perfect the various practical jokes and wind-ups that will help unsettle their enemy's preparations. |
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| In other words they have managed to engineer a win-win situation for themselves, at the expense of their bitter rivals to the north of the island. |
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| The 18-year-old came last in the swimming event and gym test but showed his class by wiping the floor with his rivals in an 800 metres cross country race. |
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| Jeep steadily gave up a market it had created to rivals, particularly Toyota and Range Rover. |
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| It helps that he is, as even his rivals will acknowledge, dazzlingly intelligent. |
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| Bailey saved ground as the field bunched into the turn and then urged the son of Hernando clear on the outside wearing down four rivals to get up by a neck. |
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| He lines his pockets when opportunities arise, and gets ahead of domestic rivals by craft and deceit. |
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| In addition, the recent surge in productivity is encouraging the efficient to slash prices, forcing rivals to match their discounts or lose share. |
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| He has not had the best of starts, losing twice to bitter rivals Kaizer Chiefs in two weeks and already the knives are out for the former Rangers coach. |
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| But the knockers were silenced when Wigan claimed their first piece of silverware in four years, thanks to a 21-12 success over their bitter rivals. |
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| After all, preservatives have given them a shelf life that rivals that of fine wine. |
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| The Tall Blacks' no-frills basketball last night had left plenty in reserve for upcoming matches, especially against trans-Tasman rivals Australia. |
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| There is always a risk in these situations that a player will sit tight for the remainder of his contract and still go to one of your rivals free. |
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| Some silk made by orb weaver spiders rivals the tensile strength of steel. |
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| But then in 2011 he weaponized comedy, slicing and dicing his political rivals in the same way a comedian deals with a heckler. |
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| Aggression has always been the name of the game for Williams, who has few rivals who can hit with her toe-to-toe. |
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| Pairs of magpie-larks use choral skills to intimidate rivals. |
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| This allowed pacesetters Free Vacation and Dawson's Legacy, both local horses facing rivals from four other countries, to make the running along the backstretch. |
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| Yet in an atmosphere in which the Romney and Perry campaigns are savaging each other, Gingrich rarely attacks his GOP rivals. |
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| The Lions now will hope Lady Luck continues to smile on them as they take on their arch rivals West Ham at Upton Park on Sunday, kick-off at noon. |
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| The role of Eva Phillips, the queen bee who achieves her selfish aims by stinging any rivals around her that might challenge her supremacy, seemed tailor-made for Crawford. |
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| Certainly he will have the resources to outlast, discredit, and disqualify his rivals. |
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| Fifth on the inside down the backstretch, he had to wait until midstretch before he could angle Perfect Sting between rivals and they just got up for the victory. |
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| A bumper crowd of more than 7,000 is expected at Bootham Crescent on Boxing Day for the all-ticket Christmas derby match against rivals Hull City. |
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| His rivals have been industrious in meeting this need, jostling each other in their attempts to stake their claim as the silver screen's ultimate alpha male. |
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| This left O'Neill unable to resist a sideswipe at his title rivals. |
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| But is her secret, as some rivals are sniffily suggesting, simply to have let tabloid newspaper hacks loose in the more respectful world of magazines? |
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| The Sliabh Luachra side had something of an Indian sign over their Tralee rivals and had recorded back to back successes over the Rockies in 2001 and last year. |
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| For one thing, Blair and Brown were classic knock-down, drag-out political rivals. |
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| This gives suppliers a constant means to evaluate their own performance against that of rivals, and a tool to use when contracts come up for renewal. |
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| Racing from trap four he left his rivals standing at the start. |
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| We also look back at a riot between trad jazz fans and their modernist rivals at a festival in 1960, and travel to Mali in pursuit of the country's hunter-musicians. |
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| Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige. |
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| Not only does it give added spice to the transition to senior school, it reconnects primary and secondary teachers who are often more rivals than colleagues. |
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| Edgerton's Britain is not a quaint land of outdated traditions, left behind by the surging modernity of its rivals. |
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| Continental hauliers have an enormous advantage over their British rivals. |
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| But rivals are not expected to show their hand until the autumn. |
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| The crack was good natured throughout, a pleasing change from some of the poisonous atmospheres we have all witnessed whenever matches between historical rivals take place. |
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| Unwanted but unwilling to accept defeat, and whining loudly from neighboring trees whenever the couple was copulating, the three rivals attacked Donald one at a time. |
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| An implicit corollary to this assertion is the idea that nations judge their rivals primarily according to their interests rather than their ideals. |
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| The tournament is based on a round-robin model that allows four teams from the Hawkeye State to spar with four MIAC rivals for regional bragging rights. |
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| As the power struggle between the Paris-born merchant prince and the Brooklyn-born whiz has played out, rivals have watched with fascination and contempt. |
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| On learning that their rivals the Capetian kings of France claimed divine healing powers, the kings of England, from Henry I onwards, followed suit. |
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| His celebrity status rivals, if not far surpasses, the Warholian persona that Koons embodies and embeds within his own work. |
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| That this formal, blatantly uncharismatic man should set the electorate on fire, without the benefit of a media coach or a new suit, has rivals stunned. |
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| Smith, a veteran of one Europa Cup and world cup season is the brakeman in the team and is confident he can put the brakes on Britain's rivals this season. |
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| None of these actions have endeared the small-government conservatives to their rivals for power, the no-government conservatives. |
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| Britain's biggest advantage over its rivals in the naval arms race was the greater size of its merchant marine and resultant pool of trained seamen. |
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| The Khedive of Egypt persuades himself that the success of the equilateral will silence his local political rivals. |
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| A showdown with their domestic rivals will sustain them a bit longer. |
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| When we visited last year, it was a middle-sized player aspiring to improve sales and profitability in a sector dominated by a few large rivals that were more profitable. |
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| This bird has a bald, red face that only a mother could love, but it boasts an incredible nine-foot wingspan and a majesty in flight that rivals any raptor. |
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| When they encounter cops or rivals, the outriders will starburst, creating a diversion. |
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| Pulling them together is not about establishing a team of rivals, but a team of enemies. |
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| Indeed, prison may offer a safety and refuge from rivals that exceed that found on the outside. |
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| While their local rivals were scoring seven goals, York RI were on their way to conceding that amount in their 7-2 defeat by Ossett Common Rovers. |
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| Falling behind in computing could mean falling behind in fields that rely on computation to get an edge on rivals. |
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| Here, Leeds were just pipped by three points by rivals Bingley Harriers. |
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| Cheese is huge business in a town where the community of Holsteins and Jerseys rivals the human population in size, where the high school's team name is the Cheesemakers. |
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| A rainbow stud, resplendent in his best dress uniform, stakes out and defends his riffle against all invaders, threatening would-be rivals with vicious fin-to-fin combat. |
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| It led the world in science and high culture and outstripped the militaries of its rivals. |
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| Glenview have lost a list of stellar names to their Super League rivals Abbey United, while many of those who waited at the club decided to wait in Sligo on Sunday as well. |
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| The transfer of Scarborough striker Chris Tate to York City's Division Three rivals Leyton Orient finally went through after a contractual hitch was overcome. |
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| Sunrise charged that Swisscom fixed Internet cable prices too high for telecom rivals to reasonably afford to use them. |
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| The author has produced a work on the Mixtecs of colonial Mexico which rivals the best of that on any of these other better-known and documented groups. |
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| Her political rivals have poured scorn on her ideas for improving the tax system. |
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| Two young political rivals are going toe-to-toe in the upcoming municipal elections, with promises to curb crime rates and improve garbage disposal. |
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| The campaign failed to define the man and his agenda on his own terms before the media and his rivals defined him, on theirs, as a one-note ranter. |
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| Certainly, Dwain Chambers at 100m has timed his season to perfection, and shot-putter Carl Myerscough, back after a two-year drugs ban, looks as powerful as any of his rivals. |
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| Medical technology has enabled scientific medicine to vanquish its rivals in the medical marketplace in the quest for patient patronage and health insurance funds. |
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| True to his ultra-aggressive nature, Lance has decided to wallop his rivals who think he can be had with a psychological blow right out of the gate. |
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| His gang and his former rivals have joined forces and formed an alliance. |
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| The company beat off competition from several rivals to win the deal, and in doing so has scored an important endorsement for its expansion into server management. |
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| The drive to find the cause and cure of autism rivals the urgency and poignancy to find the cause and cure of cancer. |
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| His rivals in Washington looked for the slightest indication of his famed ego or misbehavior. |
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| As a result, U.S. factories haven't kept up with foreign rivals. |
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| Cable rivals in Texas insist they're not quaking in their cowboy boots. |
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| What really has rivals drooling is the idea of the fratricidal battle that will ensue if the deal gets done. |
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| He describes himself as a long-time Tory supporter who was in favour of the merger last year of the Conservatives with their often bitter right-wing rivals the Alliance. |
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| Incredibly, with Bryant idling on the bench, the Lakers shook off their distractions and managed to thrash one of their supposed title rivals in their opening game. |
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