As head of the firm Darling & Swartz, Mr. Darling began by challenging Brown & Sharpe to its keenest competition during the 1850's and early 60's.

National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

An international competition, between nations rather than individuals, began with the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing.

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

In 1868 Montreal Telegraph began facing competition from the newly-established Dominion Telegraph Company.

US, began to slow in late 2007 accompanied by stiffer competition from Vietnam and

Modern cross-country ski competition is experiencing a revolution that is resulting in greater compatibility with audiences which began with the addition of the Sprint event to the World Cup and Olympic competitions in 2002.

In the early 1980s, cheerleading squads not associated with a schools or sports leagues, whose main objective was competition, began to emerge.

India, an outsider quoted at 66 – 1 to win by bookmakers before the competition began, were crowned champions after upsetting the West Indies by 43 runs in the final.

Football competition began in 1890 under head coach William McCracken.

Hundreds of small manufacturing firms, the traditional backbone of Honduran enterprise, began to go out of business beginning in the early 1990s, as import costs rose and competition through increasing wages for skilled labor from the mostly Asian-owned assembly industries strengthened.

Organizations dedicated to the codification of rules and regulations began to form, and national and international bodies sprung up to manage domestic and international competition.

In the 1970s the People Republic of China began large radical economic reforms, which forced the country from a zero competition nation to one of the most capitalistic in the world.

The lucrative trade was vastly expanded when the Portuguese began to export slaves from Africa in 1541 ; however, over time, the rise of the slave trade left Portugal over-extended, and vulnerable to competition from other Western European powers.

Exports to the West began in 1974 ; under the original agreement with Fiat, the car could not be sold in competition with the 124 until its replacement ( the Fiat 131 Mirafiori ) had been released and all Fiat production of the 124 had ceased.

The series began as a mid-season replacement in spring of 1987, and did well enough to be renewed for the fall television season, but the viewer ratings could not be sustained, due perhaps to direct competition with CBS's Top 20 hit Dallas ( also produced by Lorimar ) and NBC's Top 30 hit Miami Vice.

Modern competition began around 1850 in Germany, when pole vaulting was added to the exercises of the Turner gymnastic clubs by Johann C. F. GutsMuths and Friedrich L. Jahn.

The Commission accepted the recommendation of a competition, and architects began submitting proposals following some basic criteria.

Egg-burying would have been beneficial to the early evolution of pterosaurs, as it allows for more weight-reducing adaptations, but this method of reproduction also would have put limits on the variety of environments pterosaurs could live in, and may have disadvantaged them when they began to face ecological competition from birds.

Along with the Liverpool Athletic Club, who began holding their own Olympic Festival in the 1860s, Brookes created a National Olympian Association which aimed to encourage such local competition in cities across Britain.

The first known " modern " rowing races began from competition among the professional watermen in the United Kingdom that provided ferry and taxi service on the River Thames in London.

Amateur competition in England began towards the end of the 18th century.

Ten locomotives were entered, but on the day the competition began — 6 October 1829 — only five locomotives actually began the tests:

Non-championship Formula One events were held for many years but, due to the increasing cost of competition, the last of these occurred in 1983.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.

Women's bobsleigh competition began in the US in 1983 with two demonstration races in Lake Placid, New York, one held in February and the 2nd held during the World Cup races in March 1983.

The biennial competition was first held in 1983 and now features an event programme which is identical to the Olympics.

The competition was inaugurated as the Associate Members ' Cup in the 1983 – 84 season ( when League One and Two were known as Division Three and Four ) as a way of providing more games for the lower division clubs.

Since 1983, the town has played host to the first outdoor Pipe Band competition of the season in Scotland.

In 1983, the songwriting team of Hiller, Lee and Upton entered a song for the A Song for Europe competition.

Between 1963 and 1983, a competition was held nine times.

Werbeniuk was ranked as high as 8th in the world in 1983 and reached the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship four times before propranolol was banned in snooker competition, as it was classified as a performance-enhancing drug by the International Olympic Committee, the anti-doping rules of which were adopted by World Snooker because snooker is expected to become an Olympic sport.

However, unable to beat its competition in the marketplace, Osborne Computer Corporation filed for bankruptcy in September 1983.

Following bids from both Stuttgart, West Germany and Helsinki, Finland, the IAAF Council awarded the inaugural competition to Helsinki, to take place in 1983 and be held in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium ( where the 1952 Summer Olympics were held ).

* Brenda Hyland, winner of the Rose of Tralee competition in 1983 ( although she represented County Waterford ).

He completed his competition as a player in style by contributing a perfect 4 – 0 – 0 record ( inclusive of a 5 & 3 anchor singles match win over Eamonn Darcy ) in 1981, and captained the United States team in 1983 to a one-point win over Europe.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.

He entered the USFL with a career NFL competition percentage of 48. 7 % and a 31-53 TD to INT ratio ( Evans signed in November 1983 to a 4 year $ 5 million deal ).

Chris Dickerson won the 1982 competition, Samir Bannout won the 1983 competition, and Lee Haney won a record-setting eight competitions, starting in 1984.

" Scarecrow and Mrs. King was on the air from 1983 – 1987, The series was strong enough in the ratings that it beat its NBC competition, Boone.

In June 1983, he lost his seat in Belfast West to Gerry Adams, in part due to competition from an SDLP candidate.

By 1983 the competition had attracted European teams and the attention of the BBC.

SNET then became its own company, operating a telecommunications sales division, Sonecor Systems Division, which began operations on January 1, 1983 and sold equipment in competition with AT & T before the Bell System divestiture.

Welsh National Opera, established in 1946, and the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, launched in 1983, attracted attention to Wales's growing reputation as a centre of excellence in the classical genre.

She was a member of back-to-back national champion squads at the University of Southern California ( 1983, 1984 ) and represented the United States in international competition on five occasions, including the games of the 1988 and 1992 Olympiads.