This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

and that competition for this share of the market was endangered by the financial relationship between the two concerns: ``

Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.

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

There was keen competition between the two from the introduction of the The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing | Algebra into Europe in the 12th century until its triumph in the 16th.

After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.

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.

It was here he was to perfect himself by a study of the most splendid relics of antiquity, and to put his talents to the severest test by a competition with the living masters of the art.

Dennis Bergkamp scored six goals in the competition and was the top goalscorer in Dutch football in 1991 and 1992.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

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.

Representative football was kept alive longer than the national club competition with the introduction of State of origin rules in 1977.

The selections have caused some controversy, mainly because of the predominance of VFL players at the expense of those who played in other leagues in the years before there was a national competition.

The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.

What was surprising was the sudden entry into the market of new competition, whose machines quickly cut off the sales of the 2600.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form.

This segment of the competition combines features of the discontinued CDs and ODs ; each team performs a required pattern from one of the compulsory dances for about one half of the dance, then performs its own choreography, with some required elements, to a theme or rhythm specified by the ISU.

" The event was discontinued in the United States in 1932 because of the Depression ( the international competition was revived briefly in Belgium ).

Called the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad, the trolley was eventually discontinued in 1923, partially due to competition from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the streetcar line in Mount Rainier.

The competition featured at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics but was discontinued thereafter.

After winning the Idols competition in June 2002, he discontinued his studies to devote time to a music career.

The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW was the next-generation service rifle competition that was under development as part of the United States Army OICW program ; the program was eventually discontinued without bringing the weapon out of the prototype phase.

Lauck and Goff experimented with other formats during the hiatus, finally changing back to the original format in 1953, but the revived show was discontinued the following year due to competition from television and Goff's failing health.

Grand Prix sales increased to an all-time high of over 270, 000 units for 1977, the last year for this bodystyle, despite competition from a newly downsized and lower-priced Ford Thunderbird introduced this year and a restyled Mercury Cougar XR-7 whose bodyshell switched to the T-Bird this year from the discontinued Ford Torino / Mercury Montego.

Under the NCAA, only four universities have claimed the overall Division I championship ; Division II competition was discontinued in 1987.

The competition was discontinued after the 2008 tournament.

The competition continued under this format until it was discontinued in 1974.

Various legal difficulties prevented the awards from being presented in 1981, and the event was discontinued after the 1982 awards due to competition from other awards shows.

A number of other changes were made to the Dart line to avoid internal competition with Dodge's new Challenger: the Dart convertible was discontinued along with the optional V8, leaving the 340 4-barrel V8 as the top Dart engine.

The British Home Championship was discontinued after the 1983 – 84 competition.

The singer discontinued her studies in 1999, however, after she participated in and won the Bild-Schlagerwettbewerb competition, winning out over 270, 000 other contestants.

From 1984 to 2001 the company offered a cross-border service ( Hong Kong <> China ) using mainly Leyland Olympians, but this was discontinued due to stiff competition.

Faced with competition from the open source FreeBSD and Linux-based operating systems, Wind River discontinued BSD / OS in December 2003.

Faced with competition from FreeBSD and Linux-based operating systems, Wind River discontinued BSD / OS in December 2003.

Airdrie won this competition in 1976, but it was discontinued after one season as clubs preferred to play additional league games instead.

Final shooting for women was discontinued in international competition as a result.

" On August 24 of that same year, Dell announced that they also discontinued the DJ Ditty in the face of competition from Apple, manufacturer of the iPod, and other MP3 player manufacturers.

In the face of rising competition from bikes and cars, Chetak lost ground in India, and production was discontinued in 2009.

It was eventually discontinued owing largely to stiff competition from the state-financed Ordnance Survey.