Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

So escalation proceeds, ad infinitum or, more accurately, until the contestants begin dropping them on each other instead of on their respective proving grounds.

From a sociological and demographic perspective, the Big Brother franchise allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with.

Inside it, the two contestants try to knock each other over.

On some shows contestants compete against other players or another team while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a good outcome or a high score.

Each student works on his / her own, with only a computer and no other help allowed, specifically no communication with other contestants, books etc.

She unexpectedly becomes friends with Frasier and the other contestants.

Each of these two contestants for power was continually soliciting Orhan's aid against the other, and Orhan supported whichever side would benefit the Ottomans.

The contestants received instructions to administer what they thought would be near fatal electric shocks to another " contestant " ( really an actor ) when that other contestant erred on memorized word-associations.

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

* Series 7: The Contenders ( 2001 ) is a film about a reality show in which contestants have to kill each other to win.

or any of the other TV trivia game shows, other than that many of the contestants may be the same.

A common race involving eating is a hot dog eating race, where contestants try to eat more hot dogs than the other racers.

High Life beat out 17 other contestants to take home the gold medal in " American-style Lagers " category at the 2002 World Beer Cup.

The Dozens is a game of spoken words between two contestants, common in Hip-hop / Urban communities, where participants insult each other until one gives up or violence erupts.

On the daily 1979 – 1982 syndicated version, two contestants played against each other in two games, and then both retired.

The wheel was added because contestants consistently kept choosing Richard Dawson for the Head-to-Head Match, and the producers wanted to ensure that other panelists had the chance to participate.

Contestants who " Whammy out " in this way cannot return on the next show, even if all other contestants end with a score of $ 0.

There have been two games where all three contestants won $ 0 and returned the next day: one on the November 26, 1984 broadcast, the other on the episode that aired on February 3, 1986.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.

In its beginnings the nation-state had to struggle to assert itself -- internally, against feudal groups, and externally, against the power and influence of such other claimants for loyalty as the Church.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

Perry Mason and Hamilton Burger, Nero Wolfe and Inspector Cramer spend more time fighting each other than they do in looking for the criminal.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

He chooses to subordinate one to the other, sometimes reluctantly, accepting criticism for the lesser immoralities facts breed.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

More industrial acreage lies vacant in St. Clair county than in any other jurisdiction in the St. Louis area.

The authors of the Handbook of British Chronology Third Edition say he was named bishop of Hereford in 1056, holding the see until he resigned it in 1060, but other sources say that he merely administered the see while it was vacant, or that he was bishop of Hereford from 1055 to 1060.

A cardinal's other main function is electing the pope whenever, by death or resignation, the seat becomes vacant.

Possible opportunity costs of a city's decision to build a hospital on its vacant land are the loss of the land for a sporting center, or the inability to use the land for a parking lot, or the money that could have been made from selling the land, or the loss of any of the various other possible uses — but not all of these in aggregate.

When the post of Secretary is vacant, the United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs or any other person designated by the President serves as Acting Secretary until the President nominates and the United States Senate confirms a new Secretary.

The office has remained vacant since 1988, and no senator other than Humphrey and Mitchell has held it since its creation.

The great age of the homes has created numerous problems, including blight and vacant lots in many parts of the city, while other neighborhoods such as Society Hill, which has the largest concentration of 18th-century architecture in the United States, have been rehabilitated and gentrified.

* The President, the Vice President ( or other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President, should the vice presidency be vacant ), the President-elect, and the Vice President-elect

In Belgium, the title of Duke of Brabant ( historically the most prestigious in the Low Countries, and containing the federal capital Brussels ), if still vacant, has been awarded preferentially to the eldest son and heir presumptive of the king, other male dynasts receiving various lower historical titles ( much older than Belgium, and in principle never fallen to the Belgian crown ), such as Count of Flanders ( King Leopold III's so-titled brother held the title when he became the realm's temporary head of state as prince-regent ) and Prince of Liège ( a secularised version of the historical prince-bishopric ; e. g., the present King Albert II until he succeeded his older brother Baudouin I ).

After hearing Henry's story, His Excellency denies him entry and suggests he try the " other place ", where Martha is waiting for him, hinting that there might be " a small room vacant in the annex ".

There are currently 10 School Board Members with one other board member seat being vacant currently.

If one of the multiple titles held to earn the designation WBA " Super " Champion is the WBA's own title, then the fighter is promoted to Super champion and the WBA title becomes vacant for other WBA-ranked boxers to fight for.

Several recent additions, such as Argos, Lidl and Peacocks, are located in new retail spaces on the site of Pratt's but in common with other outer London high streets, retail recovery has been slow, and a substantial proportion of vacant space has been taken by a growing number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops.

This reputation impeded attempts to revive the area, utilising the large amount of land available following the decline of the railway goods yard to the north of the station and the many other vacant premises in the area.

Urban decay, and urban prairie are common in the formerly industrialized and once heavily populated East St. Louis ; other cities in St. Clair County often border agricultural or vacant lands.

There are other buildings on Main Street and Highway 82, but they are currently vacant.

The other two structures left vacant were donated to the Foundation for the Tri-State Community and were soon filled by other corporations such as Applied Card Systems and Addington Resources.

Bean Call Center located in the Peck Building, a TD Bank branch, St. Joseph's Church, a vacant church owned by the Diocese of Portland, Central Maine Medical Center, in addition to many other businesses.

On October 9, 2002, Waltman made his X Division debut, defeating six other wrestlers to win the vacant TNA X Division Championship in a ladder match .< ref name = TNA >

Formerly vacant stores were tenanted, and additional retail spaces built as the area became known for its high quality Indian food, sweets, clothing ( particularly saris ), jewelry, music, and other goods.

Large areas of vacant land in Ocean Acres were even set aside for other individual subdivisions, such as The Oaks at Stafford development.

" When the electorate allows key offices to go vacant for unreasonable amounts of time and allows other conditions ... to cause ruin and decay ," Cain wrote, " it can easily be inferred that this small group of local citizens has abandoned any right it had to operate a local government unit.

The other four members of council were appointed to fill vacant seats.

Pitt, on the other hand, considered the King's madness temporary ( or, at least, hoped that it would be ), and thus saw the throne as temporarily unoccupied rather than vacant.