Rivarol's writing was published in the Journal politique of Antoine Sabatier de Castres and the Actes des Apotres of Jean Gabriel Peltier.

Many of Rivarol's " maximes " were ill-natured and hold only for their place and time.

The malicious wit of Antoine de Rivarol's mot on the critical failure of the poem, " Cest le plus beau naufrage du siècle ," reflects the fact that one of the most elaborate passages describes a shipwreck.

The firm has never acquired a practice group larger than six attorneys, in sharp contrast with rivals such as Baker & McKenzie, which has repeatedly absorbed local practices, or DLA Piper and Clifford Chance, which are the products of large mergers ( often across national and continental borders ).

The series was described as a grudge match between two intense rivals, featuring a great level of personal animosity, sharp rhetoric and several physical altercations.

His rivals were not slow to take up the charge of plagiarism, to which Étienne replied that the story was an old one ( it existed in an old French fabliaus ) and had already been treated by Alexis Piron in Les Fils ingrats.

These performances brought him the FIA Cup for Drivers title, well ahead of main rivals Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Hannu Mikkola, and Fiat their second manufacturers ' title.

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.

Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the hand of Thetis until Prometheus, the fore-thinker, warned Zeus of a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father.

But though disgraced, they still retained great influence, and two years later, seizing the person of the king, they compelled their rivals to consent to the erection of a regency representative of both parties.

That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.

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.

The more traditional view had been to see the two cities are economic rivals.

He was a guest at following Roskilde banquet given in 1157 by Sweyn to his rivals Canute V and Valdemar.

He is by no means an impartial source: he is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master, including the Polein party which supported Conrad of Montferrat against Guy of Lusignan.

At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.

By 473 BC, after the death of Phrynichus, one of his chief rivals, Aeschylus was the yearly favorite in the Dionysia, winning first prize in nearly every competition.

However, Plutarch indicates that many of Pericles ' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as usurping monetary resources to fund elaborate building projects.

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.

At this time Cossa also had some links with local robber bands, often used to intimidate his rivals and attack carriages, this part of Cossa's life isn't widely known, but gave him certain influence and power in the region.

However, even with Mozart and Salieri being rivals for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so when Mozart had become established in Vienna.

Feyenoord from Rotterdam are Ajax's arch rivals.

A remarkable achievement, since AZ is financially not a big club and it does not have a similar fanbase like their Eredivisie rivals: AZ's home ground in the 2005 – 06 season, the Alkmaarderhout, had a spectator capacity of 8, 390.

Home games are currently played at the Stadio Olimpico, a venue they share with city rivals Lazio.

When the Sequani, their hereditary rivals, with the assistance of a Germanic chieftain named Ariovistus defeated and massacred the Aedui at the Battle of Magetobriga, the Aedui sent Diviciacus, the druid, to Rome to appeal to the senate for help.

As a result, Bedr and the Umayyad clients sent out feelers to their rivals, the Yemenite commanders.

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.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

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 theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

Adult bears generally weigh between and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.

Louis VI of France convened a national council of the French bishops at Étampes in 1130, and Bernard was chosen to judge between the rivals for pope.

Recent evidence makes it clear that Déricourt established secret contacts with the SD straight after SOE parachuted him into France-in January 1943.

Torcy, Seine-et-Marne, France-in honour of a Scottish knight named Sir Thomas Huston originally from Girvan, who fought the English as part of the Auld Alliance during the Hundred Years War.

... Her relaxed, often conversational tone belies her sharp eye for detail which, combined with a knack for simile and metaphor, has remained acute throughout her career.

The sharp cries at the end of the valley were faint.

Clapping spurs to the bronc he set off at a sharp canter, with growing alarm.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Behind Ramey feet scraped beneath sharp questioning whispers.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

all is seen and felt and experienced, the observation is sharp and the imagination lively.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

He has also enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer ( his records have sold in the millions ) and is a sharp businessman.

More temperately than in the study of Grey and despite his Liberal bias, Trevelyan vividly sketches the England of pre-French Revolution days, portrays the stresses and strains of the revolutionary period in rich colors, and brings developments leading to the Reform Bill into sharp and clear focus.

He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.

The scene is etched in sharp detail, the military problems brilliantly explained, and the excitement and importance of the battle made evident.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

his lips and the usually sharp lines of his jaw had become swollen-looking.

Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier-like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him.

The sharp ray was absorbed by a cloud, then reflected to the earth in a softer, diffused radiance.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

The sharp wind slapped at him and his feet felt like ice as the snow penetrated the holes of his shoes, his only ones, now patched with folded parchment.

Through the swathings of terror, she jabbed deceit's sharp point -- Amy would be reborn, a new child, with new parents, living under new circumstances.

The chevaux de frise, those sharp stakes and barriers around the fort at the Battery, pointed to a conflict between the town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the tide came in.

To his left, the two skiffs dented their sharp bows into the soft bank.