The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) had a show-biz plot about two sisters competing for a charming song and dance man.

Kennedy's attractive sisters, brothers, and wife Jacqueline combed the state looking for votes, leading Humphrey to complain that he " felt like an independent merchant competing against a chain store ".

Further, she also missed Roland Garros, marking the first Grand Slam tournament since 2003 US Open where neither of the Williams sisters are competing.

The siblings developed a rivalry early on, with both brothers competing for their parents ' and sisters ' attention.

Grace also constantly strives for the affection of her father Martin ( Alan Arkin ), competing with her two sisters ( one younger, one older ), who have more obvious problems than she ( Joyce, played by Sara Rue, is a mentally slow compulsive overeater, although Grace herself has shown frequent instances of compulsive overreating, while Janet, portrayed by Geena Davis, is rarely employed and promiscuous ).

With neodymium compounds being the most strongly colored for the trivalent lanthanides, that percentage of neodymium can occasionally dominate the coloration of rare earth minerals — when competing chromophores are absent.

As a multiple past champion, he was eligible to continue competing after his best years were past, and occasionally did so in the top events, well into the 1960s, and occasionally into the 1970s.

The World Club Challenge, which had been contested occasionally since 1975, was expanded in 1997 to include all ten Australian Super League clubs competing against all twelve European clubs.

After the cessation of hostilities he resumed his racing activities, occasionally taking the wheel of a Veritas, as in his appearance in the 1952 German GP, but mainly competing in a Borgward in events as diverse as the long-distance 1000 km Buenos Aires, Le Mans 24 Hours and Carrera Panamericana and speed record attempts at AVUS.

She also resumed competing in the ring occasionally, often jobbing, or losing quickly, in short matches.

The player controls Ratchet from a third-person perspective, competing in missions and tournaments, defeating enemies, or occasionally controlling vehicles.

Combining previously unrelated chains occasionally created competing Rumbelows stores within yards of each other.

These booze customers had until then been buying their supplies from the Sheldon, Saltis-McErlane, and Druggan-Lake gangs, and now they were competing for trade with the Torrio-Capone saloons ; ;

It was a foregone conclusion that one of them would be placed in Florida ; the only question was whether Huizenga would beat out competing groups from Orlando and Tampa Bay.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency ; sailing master Joseph Whidbey had a competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer ; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

; November 1993: HTML + was published by the IETF as an Internet-Draft and was a competing proposal to the Hypertext Markup Language draft.

There were two reasons for this: first, the emergence of further schisms arising from competing reform projects ; and second, a general lack of awareness of Ido as a candidate for an international language.

For most of Serie A's history there were 16 or 18 clubs competing at the top level ; however, since 2004 – 05 there have been 20 clubs altogether.

In June 1990, Major suggested that the proposed Single European Currency should be a " hard ecu ", competing for use against existing national currencies ; this idea was not in the end adopted.

Lady Justice depicts justice as equipped with three symbols: a sword symbolizing the court's coercive power ; a human scale weighing competing claims in each hand ; and a blindfold indicating impartiality.

They also overpriced ; believing they were competing with the KL10 and VAX 8600 and not startups such as Sun Microsystems building workstations with comparable power at a fraction of the price.

Gradually Borno's position weakened ; its inability to check political rivalries between competing Hausa cities was one example of this decline.

Cyril had both theological and political reasons for attacking Nestorius ; on top of feeling that Nestorianism was an error against true belief, he also wanted to denigrate the head of a competing patriarchate.

The Intermodal System for Global Transport ( SIT Global ), involving Nicaraguan and Canadian and American investors, proposes a combined railway, oil pipeline, and fibre optic cable ; a competing group, the Inter-Ocean Canal of Nicaragua, proposes building a railway linking two ports on either coast.

In July 2007, the China state-owned oil company CNOOC signed an agreement with the Somali government to search for oil in the Mudug region of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland ; a competing oil company estimated the total reserves in Puntland could amount to five to ten billion barrels of oil.

It means resolving the conflict between the various competing goals, and involves the simultaneous pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity famously known as three dimensions ( triple bottom line ) with the resultant vector being technology, hence it is a continually evolving process ; the ' journey ' ( the process of achieving sustainability ) is of course vitally important, but only as a means of getting to the destination ( the desired future state ).

Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold ; its natural harbor soon developed into a commercial center competing with Buenos Aires.

Representatives of competing object technology companies were consulted during OOPSLA ' 96 ; they chose boxes for representing classes rather than the cloud symbols that were used in Booch's notation.

; Exclusive: The term " Unified " applies only to the unification of the many prior existing and competing Object Orientated languages.

Schoolboys ( young men ages 13-14 ; or age 12 with a medical certificate and parental authorization ) competing in freestyle and Greco-Roman do so in one of the following 10 weight classes:

Cadets ( young men ages 15-16 ; or age 14 with a medical certificate and parental authorization ) competing in freestyle and Greco-Roman do so in one of the following 10 weight classes:

Juniors ( young men ages 18 to 20 ; or age 17 with a medical certificate and parental authorization ) competing in freestyle and Greco-Roman do so in one of the following eight weight classes:

It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.

He won the Ohio Open in 1956 at age 16, highlighted by a phenomenal third round of 64, competing against professionals.

With seven nations competing, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland in May 1956.

The Netherlands was one of the seven countries competing in the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

After competing in the 1956 Olympics, Chataway retired from international athletics, though he continues to race for Thames Hare and Hounds up to this day.

In 1956, a technology competing against the nebulizer was launched by Riker Laboratories ( 3M ), in the form of pressurized metered-dose inhalers, with Medihaler-iso ( isoprenaline ) and Medihaler-epi ( adrenaline ) as the two first products.

After competing in the 1956 Olympics in the hammer throw, he enrolled at the Romania College of Physical Education, studying and practicing gymnastics after having had trouble with a mandatory skills test in the sport.

He became European Champion in 1956, and won Olympic gold in the 500 meter and 1, 500 meter events in both 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics ( sharing the 1, 500 meter victories with respectively Yuri Mikhailov and Roald Aas ), competing for the USSR team.