Unlike most Philippine banks, LANDBANK has an extensive rural branch network.

The decree granted LANDBANK a universal banking license ( the first bank in the Philippines to be issued such a license ) with a social mission to spur countryside development.

Land Bank of the Philippines ( Filipino: Bangko sa Lupa ng Pilipinas ), also known as LANDBANK or by its initials, LBP, is a bank in the Philippines owned by the Philippine government with a special focus on serving the needs of farmers and fishermen.

Also in this year, Union Bank of the Philippines ( UnionBank ) was formed, with LANDBANK having a 40-percent stake in the government-owned commercial bank.

On the other end of the spectrum, LANDBANK takes on a dual role with the Development Bank of the Philippines, which is another government-owned bank.

LANDBANK is the fourth largest bank in the Philippines in terms of assets and is the largest government-owned bank.

LANDBANK was established on August 8, 1963 as part of the Agricultural Land Reform Code, or Republic Act No. 3844 to help with land reform, especially the purchase of agricultural estates for division and resale to small landholders and the purchase of land by the agricultural lessee.

By 1973, LANDBANK was in financial distress.

LANDBANK was also required by the decree to provide timely and adequate support in all phases involved in the execution of agrarian reform and also increased its authorized capital to 3 billion pesos.

LANDBANK was reorganized in 1977 when it was divided into three sectors to better assess the needs of its customers.

LANDBANK became the financial intermediary for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ( CARP ) in 1988.

LANDBANK also became the third member of Expressnet, an interbank network, in December 1991.

* LANDBANK has a total of 324 branches nationwide.

The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.

A fantasy sport ( also known as rotisserie, roto, or owner simulation ) is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport.

Q3A comes with several gameplay modes ; Free for All ( FFA ), a classic deathmatch, where each player competes against the rest for the highest score, Team Deathmatch ( TDM ), where usually two teams of four compete for the highest team frag total, Tournament ( 1v1 ), a deathmatch between two players, usually ending after a set time and Capture the Flag, which is played on symmetrical maps where teams have to recover the enemy flag from the opponents ' base while retaining their own.

Officials with ties to the Shanghai administration form a powerful faction in the national government, the so-called Shanghai Clique, which often competes against the rival Youth League Faction over personnel appointments and policy decisions: Xi Jinping, the presumptive successor to Hu Jintao as General Secretary and President, is a compromise candidate between the two groups with supporters in both camps.

The player competes against the computer.

In this film Harriet competes against Marion Hawthorne to see who has a better blog.

The school is a member of the Mayflower League, and competes against smaller schools in the region.

The largest of these schools is St. Mary Catholic Central High School, which enrolls over 400 students a year and has a full sports program that competes against the other public school districts.

Its highly ranked swim team competes against other private swim clubs in the area in meets held mostly in July.

This game is no longer played, as William E. Tolman now competes annually against its fellow Pawtucket public high school Charles E. Shea, rather than against St. Raphael Academy, a private Catholic high school.

The university competes against other institutions such as Royal Holloway University of London and Kingston University.

In March 2007 a Siemens board member was temporarily arrested and accused of illegally financing a business-friendly labour association which competes against the union IG Metall.

Haverford College competes at the NCAA Division III level in the Centennial Conference and has a rich history in collegiate athletics: Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States ; its men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division, with men's cross country winning the 2010 Cross Country Division III National Championships ; its soccer team is the nation's oldest and won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905 against Harvard College ; its lacrosse team has recently become a national power after placing well in the NCAA championships ; its fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association ( MACFA ) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association ( NIWFA ).

Set in the Wild West during the nineteenth century, the movie was a sex comedy that starred Divine as Rosie Velez, a promiscuous woman who works as a singer in saloons and competes for the love of Abel Wood ( Tab Hunter ) against another woman.

* In the b-story of " Black Widows ", the fifteenth episode of Totally Spies, Sam competes in the Beverly Hills High School spelling bee against Mandy, the archrival of her and her two best friends, Clover and Alex.

When his group competes against the Rockets they usually lose.

Boston College competes in the Beanpot against the three other major sports colleges in Boston: the Northeastern University Huskies, Harvard University Crimson, and Boston University Terriers.

This process competes against the stellar wind, which drives the gas out of the system, and accretion, which pulls material into the central T Tauri star.

Colchester competes in the Twin Town Games against Wetzlar, Avignon, Orléans, Tarragona, and Siena.

Christie Cup The University of Manchester competes annually in 28 different sports against Leeds and Liverpool universities in the Christie Cup, which Manchester had won for five consecutive years until 2011 where the University of Leeds won the competition on home soil .< ref >

Croft first appeared in the 1996 video game Tomb Raider, in which she competes against a rival archaeologist in search of an Atlantean artifact.

Harvard competes in one of the most heated rivalries of college hockey at least twice each season against Harvard's archrival, the Cornell Big Red, in installments of the Cornell-Harvard hockey rivalry.

The Princeton Debate Panel is one of the world's top intercollegiate debating societies, and competes regularly against teams such as the Oxford Union, the Cambridge Union Society, and the Hart House Debating Club.

The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series.

* Lillehammer Icehockey Club ( The team competes in Norway's major hockey league, the GET-League.

* The American League repudiates its minor status and competes with the National League as a second major league.

The Dannevirke Sports Club is the major outlet for sport in the town with netball, cricket and soccer teams as well as a rugby team that competes in the Premier Manawatu Senior Competition.

Zennström is a keen yachtsman and his 72ft mini maxi Rán II ( Judel / Vrolijk design, 2009 ) competes in the World's major offshore races.

Internationally, he was also known as co-owner ( with his brothers ) of Dubai's Godolphin Stables, which competes in major horse races around the world.

* The " Federal League War " ensues when the Federal League leaves Minor League Baseball and competes with the two established major leagues.

Scotland maintains its own national side that competes in all major professional tournaments with the exception of the Olympic Games, as Scotland is not a member of the International Olympic Committee.

Barmouth has one major association football team: Barmouth & Dyffryn United, the team competes in the Welsh Alliance league and is generally well supported by residents.

Slovakia maintains its own national side that competes in all major professional tournaments.

Fenerbahçe is a multi-sports club and competes in football, basketball, volleyball, athletics, swimming, sailing, rowing, boxing and table tennis with many major honours won in each branch.

Because of stock car racing's roots in and wealth of famous drivers from North Carolina, many NASCAR offices in the area and many teams in the three major series NASCAR competes in ( Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series ) totaling over 73 % of motorsports employees in the United States working in what the committee called " NASCAR Valley ", Charlotte was considered the favorite by many fans and commentators.

This team is registered as a UCI ProTeam and competes in the major races including the Tour de France.

Typically, Bartow competes on the Class 3A and 4A levels for most of its major sports.

Although most national football teams represent a sovereign state, England is one of the United Kingdom's Home Nations, meaning that it is permitted by FIFA statutes to maintain its own national side that competes in all major tournaments, with the exception of the Women's Olympic Football Tournament.

The South Africa national rugby league team are a growing force in rugby league football, South Africa competes sporadically against other international nations because of their location and their absence from any major international competitions.

* Matto Stadium is home to the city's major football club, FC Hokuriku ( formerly Fervorosa Ishikawa, Fervorosa Hakusan and FC Goals ) which competes in the Hokushinetsu Regional League.

It can also be used to describe a professional athlete who competes in amateur sports ; a softball team might have a " ringer " who used to play minor or major league ball.

A major spin-off of WBQA quizzing is Detroit Bible Quizzing, a quiz league in the Detroit area consisting of approximately 20-40 teams which competes throughout the season ( October-March ), and regularly sends multiple teams to WBQA tournaments.

KBTX competes in Division 3, which includes the next biggest Texas markets after the four major metro areas ( Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin ).

ANB claims to have the most deposits of any financial institution in Amarillo since 1987, a major accomplishment considering that ANB competes with several out-of-state bank companies.