They were inseparable, not because they were fond of each other, but because they wanted to keep an eye on each other, as they were keen rivals for social leadership.

He resolved to suppress many abuses, but above all things, to check feudalism and limit the power of the nobles, who were rivals for his throne.

Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.

He had defeated all enterprises by rivals against his throne ; he had broken down the power of local chiefs, and tamed the refractory tribes ; so that his orders were irresistible throughout the whole dominion.

Likewise, the Zulus in the early 19th century were victorious in battles against their rivals in part because they adopted a new kind of spear, the iklwa.

The German Army had a greater grasp of the effects of technology on the battlefield, and went on to develop a new form of warfare by which its rivals when it came to the test were hopelessly outclassed.

The largest philosophical rivals to Confucianism were Legalism and Mohism before the Han dynasty.

The Browns had few worthy rivals among the AAFC's eight teams, but the New York Yankees and San Francisco 49ers were their closest competition.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

At first the countries followed mercantilist policies designed to strengthen the home economy at the expense of rivals, so the colonies were usually allowed to trade only with the mother country.

Compaq's inventory and gross margins were better than that of its rivals which enabled it wage the price wars.

Doom principal rivals were Apogee's Rise of the Triad and Looking Glass Studios ' System Shock.

In terms of raw computational power, the Dragon beat most of its contemporary rivals based on the older MOS Technology 6502, but this made little difference in a market where graphical capabilities and games were much more important to consumers.

Atchison and Missouri's other Senator, the venerable Thomas Hart Benton, became rivals and finally enemies, though both were Democrats.

Its three largest neighbors were rivals Imperial Russia to the east, France to the west and ally Austria-Hungary to the south.

The two former parties were notorious rivals when they were active before the Nazis consolidated all power and criminalised their agitation.

Now the Frankish kings were set up as protectors of the pope, and Charles the Great launched a decades-long military campaign against their heathen rivals, the Saxons and the Avars.

The Visigothic ruling class looked to Constantinople for style and technology while the rivals of Visigothic power and culture were the Catholic bishops – and a brief incursion of Byzantine power in Córdoba.

The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries (" Europe ") while their underhanded rivals were Americans ( although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship ; see the image on the The Shooting Star page ), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called " Jewish features.

He had the advantage over his rivals in that his pots, cast by his patented process, were thinner and cheaper than theirs.

The nature of this rivalry is ironic because while the Colts and Patriots were division rivals from 1970 to 2001, it did not become prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated to the AFC South.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

The station directly competes with contemporary hit radio rival WIHT ( Hot 99-5 ) and urban contemporary rival WKYS full-time, but only urban adult contemporary rivals WMMJ and WHUR with R & B and classic soul slow jams indirectly on Sunday through Thursday nights from 10pm to 2am on " The Koolout " slow jams program.

Defier and Shogun Lodge looked to be his main dangers but then the rain fell and both his rivals were scratched when the track was rated officially slow.

* PowerBuilder was slow to move to the Web: long after rivals began to support Web development, it continued to be based on two-tier ( traditional client-server ) technology.

After a slow start MK dominated the 2nd half of the season and finished runners-up behind rivals Peterborough.

They take on the new identities of Meng Yi and Zhao Gao and become rivals in the Qin imperial court.

His idea was to gain control of the area to take control of the West from the company's rivals, the Montreal-based North West Company.

In September 1931, Abbandando reportedly helped Buchalter and gang member Abe Reles eliminate The Shapiro Gang, rivals from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who were trying to take over some of the men's rackets.

He and Bulk Brogan ( Hulk Hogan ), " Manly Man " Ricky Ravage ( Randy " Macho Man " Savage ), and Sergei the Giant ( André the Giant ) were hired by a video game company to take on their rivals.

The season mostly revolves around a brutal new drug lord, Armadillo — a sadistic child rapist who likes to set his rivals on fire using a tire necklace and gasoline — who begins to take over the drug trade in Farmington.

However, rivals may take the same takeover action against the player.

While they would later become rivals, on meeting the two men appeared to take a liking to each other.

In response, Ioseliani accused Gamsakhurdia of trying to take control of state media and silence rivals.

With the Whigs now in a position to take revenge on their former political rivals, Bolingbroke fled to France and gave his service to the Pretender.

However, Ian Atkins was sacked in March after agreeing to take charge at rivals Bristol Rovers. His replacement, Graham Rix, could only manage a ninth place finish at the end of the season, and was sacked the following November.

Chrysler was also only too keen to take control of the struggling firm as it wished to have its own wholly independent European subsidiaries like arch rivals Ford and GM.

In March 2000, Roma chairman Franco Sensi led a holding company to purchase Palermo and Sergio D ' Antoni became the President of Palermo and Palermo were promoted to Serie B one year later after a dramatic final week of the season, with Palermo coming back from behind to take first place from league-toppers Sicilian rivals Messina.

Williams left the club to take a senior position with Conference rivals Kingstonian in May 2001.

During this quest for vengeance, Tony has to take down several rivals who are eager to take over his empire after the assassination attempt.

He would return for the season, but his outspoken personality and poor results on the field that season ( Brooklyn briefly fell into the basement ) would again cause friction with Rickey, and on July 16 of that year, Durocher, Rickey and New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham negotiated a deal whereby Durocher was let out of his Brooklyn contract to take over the Dodgers ' cross-town rivals.

The return to premiership action over Christmas and the New Year began well for Saracens with a win away at London rivals Harlequins, however once again defensive weakness and coming out of the blocks slowly saw Saracens take only a losing bonus point from their final fixture of 2007 in the Premiership, though it was enough to see them go into the New Year in third place in the domestic league.

They beat their County Armagh rivals Glenavon 2 – 1 at Windsor Park in the Irish Cup Final, with Stevie Cowan scoring both goals to take the trophy to Shamrock Park for the first time.

The subsequent All-Ireland final saw Kilkenny take on Cork, their age-old rivals, for the first time since 1992.

Their biggest success came on the heels of that second divisional title as they went on to a 5 – 3 victory over local rivals Kickers Offenbach to take the German national title and followed up immediately with an outstanding run in the European Champions Cup.

The investigation by the paper alleges that NDS illegally undermined rivals Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when parent company News Corporation was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.

In 2007, Drew Ginn and Duncan Free successfully defended their coxless pairs title, posting a time of 6: 24. 87 minutes — almost 6 seconds ahead of their New Zealand rivals who had stuck with them for the first 1000m before dropping behind to take the silver.

He scored the winning goal for Stoke against their Midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers on 7 April to take his goal tally to 13 and was backed by manager Tony Pulis to earn a recall to the England squad for Euro 2012.

However, the final nine games saw Wolves take just 10 points from 27 available, while Albion, in contrast, won 8 of their final 10 fixtures to overtake their rivals and pip them to promotion on the final day of the season.

Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe wrote that " one year after they ( Yankees ) jousted to the ( Sox's ) finish in the Bronx last October in an epic seventh game that appeared to take the clash to its zenith they go at it again ..." In this series, Alex Rodriguez, was seemed to answer the Sox ' acquisition of Curt Schilling, as the two veteran stars faced each other, wearing the uniforms of the ancient rivals in an October game ..." Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina summed up the build-up: " This is what everyone was hoping for ... It's a rematch of last year, with the best two teams in the American League.