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 competition that would eventually become the UEFA Champions League was also the brainchild of a l ' Equipe journalist, Gabriel Hanot.

The Marquis de Dion entered one of these in an 1887 trial, " Europe's first motoring competition ", the brainchild of one M. Fossier of cycling magazine Le Vélocipède.

Faced with competition for a first team place by Juan Pablo Ángel and Peter Crouch, Dublin spent several weeks on loan at First Division Millwall.

Pablo made his La Liga debut on 15 November 1998, a 2 – 2 draw at home against Deportivo Alavés, but faced serious competition from Armando that season.

In the following two seasons, Pablo remained first-choice at his position, although he faced stiff competition from Laure in 2008 – 09.

O ' Leary managed to push a limited squad to perform successfully and consistently, led by the revitalised Colombian striker Juan Pablo Angel, and by the final weeks of the season they were in with a real chance of a European competition qualification place.

In the 2009 – 10 season, Joaquín began facing stiff competition for a starting berth, being challenged by younger Pablo Hernández ; during the course of the campaign-Valencia also played in the UEFA Europa League-both players received roughly the same amount of minutes, and scored a similar total of goals.

Brian Aragon and Chris Haffey are generally considered the current " superstars " of the sport, with many competition titles and signature skates, alongside other riders like John Julio, Jeff Stockwell, Montre Livingston, Mike " Murda " Johnson, CJ Wellsmore, Franky Morales, Chris Farmer, Dustin Latimer, Soichiro Kanashima, Eito Yasutoko, Julian Bah, Takeshi Yasutoko, Roman Abrate, Mathieu Ledoux, Billy O ' Niell, James Mandato and many more.

In singles competition, Scicluna defeated Spiros Arion for Australia's IWA World Championship on June 15, 1968 and would challenge Bruno Sammartino and Pedro Morales for the WWWF Championship from time to time.

Fear of the competition -- always a great motivating force in the American economy -- makes retailers who do not have suburban operations exaggerate both the volume and the profitability of their rival's shiny new branches.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

It is then that a competition is held to determine who deserves the armor.

:" He marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skillful in a thing vie in competition ; those who have no skill, judge " — Diogenes Laertius, of Anacharsis.

Spencer wrote that in production the advantages of the superior individual is comparatively minor, and thus acceptable, yet the benefit that dominance provides those who control a large segment of production might be hazardous to competition.

Silver Sands is becoming more popular with open water swimmers, who swim daily in the sea, both as a leisure pursuit, and as training for open water competition.

The competition itself was won by F H W Hawes of Dagenham in Essex who finished in less than eight minutes.

The first documented bouldering advocate may have been Oscar Eckenstein, a British engineer and innovative climber who wrote about bouldering, and in the 1890s conducted an informal bouldering competition for natives in Askole, a village in the Karakoram mountains.

In the simplest competition, singles, one of the two opponents flips a coin to see who wins the " mat " and begins a segment of the competition ( in bowling parlance, an " end "), by placing the mat and rolling the jack to the other end of the green to serve as a target.

The US version, however, has since 2001 taken on a significantly different format from the others in their second season, with a far stronger emphasis on strategy, competition and voting, where the public does not choose who to evict.

An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who both grew as electoral forces from the 1960s onwards.

Jorge Luis Vasquez, a Cuban who was imprisoned in East Germany, states that the East German Stasi trained the personnel of the Cuban Interior Ministry ( MINIT ).< ref > The relationship between the KGB and the Cuban Intelligence Directorate ( DI ) was complex and marked by both times of close cooperation and times of extreme competition.

A similar phenomenon is also true within the field of professional sports as professional athletes who are directly involved directly with the competition, the physical aspects of scoring and defending, as well as being widely spectated by fans are more than likely to become celebrities.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

Capybaras are hunted for their meat and pelts in some areas, and otherwise killed by humans who see their grazing as competition for livestock.

However, it is the Issas who presently dominate the government, civil service, and the ruling party, a situation that has bred resentment and political competition between the Somali Issas and the Afars.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

These parties quickly became profitable for the promoters, who would sell admission, food, and alcohol, leading to fierce competition between DJs for the biggest sound systems and newest records.

The value of capital goods is brought into line with the value of future consumer goods through competition in financial markets, because competition for profits among capitalists financiers rewards entrepreneurs who value capital more correctly ( i. e. anticipating future prices more correctly ) and eliminates capitalists who value capital least correctly.