Suetonius claims that Germanicus was poisoned in Syria by an agent of Tiberius, who viewed Germanicus as a political rival.

The Ottomans insisted on this elevated style while refusing to recognize the Holy Roman Emperors or the Russian tsars because of their rival claims of the Roman crown.

Meanwhile he had to cope with rival claims of publishers Gollancz and Warburg for publishing rights.

Ground for a rudimentary aircraft landing area was cleared during the mid-1930s, in anticipation that the island might eventually be used as a stopover for a commercial trans-Pacific air route and also to further U. S. territorial claims in the region against rival claims from Great Britain.

The lubricant marketer claims improved equipment efficiency when compared to rival products or technologies, the claim is usually valid when comparing lubricant of higher specification with previous grade.

The next year was consumed by the rival claims of antipopes Constantine II ( installed by a faction of Tuscan nobles ) and Philip ( the candidate of the Lombards ), who were forced out of office by the efforts of Christophorus, the Primicerius of the notaries, and his son Sergius, the Treasurer of the Roman church.

For his services the king extorted various concessions from Innocent VII, among them the promise that he would not reach any accommodation with the rival Pope in Avignon that would compromise Ladislas ' claims to Naples, which had been challenged until very recently by Louis II of Anjou.

* August 1 – War is declared between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

Before Henry's father Henry VII ascended the throne, England was beset by civil warfare over rival claims to the crown and Henry wanted to avoid a similar uncertainty over the succession.

* December – Mamluk sultan of Egypt Khalil is assassinated by his regent Baydara, who briefly claims the sultanate before being assassinated himself by a rival political faction.

Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King Louis IV of France in 942 renounced all claims to Lotharingia.

According to steward Clarence Hare, he was " the most popular of the officers among the crew, being a good mixer ", though claims that this represented an unofficial rival leadership to Scott's are unsupported.

Syphax expels his rival Masinissa and claims himself to be King of Numidia.

Caesar seized the Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival claims of Ptolemy and Cleopatra.

* The Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter's relations with Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamum and Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt deteriorate to the point where they support a rival claimant to the Syrian throne, Alexander Balas, who claims to be the son of the former Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and, therefore, a first cousin of Demetrius.

His discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator was communicated to the Paris Institute in a memoir read by him on December 7, 1804, and its importance was attested by the speedy emergence of rival claims.

One of his first acts was to exile the Patriarch of Constantinople, Photios, and restore his rival Ignatios, whose claims were supported by Pope Adrian II.

After the American Revolution the college lost its claim to Landaff in 1791, because of the grant ’ s royal derivation and rival claims by American settlers in Landaff.

While the Landaff case underwent litigation to resolve the rival claims, Vermont ( then meeting in Norwich ) came to the aid of the college and granted it the township of Wheelock ( northwest of St. Johnsbury ) in 1785.

Sometime before 4 February 1287, Claramonde died, and for the rest of his life Gabaston struggled to retain his wife's inheritance from rival claims by relatives and neighbours.

After the harsh and fierce battle, Hungary was torn apart by the conflict between the rival royal claims.

On 1 August 1917, Benedict issued a seven point peace plan stating that: ( 1 ) " the moral force of right ... be substituted for the material force of arms ," ( 2 ) there must be " simultaneous and reciprocal diminution of armaments ," ( 3 ) a mechanism for " international arbitration " must be established ," ( 4 ) " true liberty and common rights over the sea " should exist, ( 5 ) there should be a " renunciation of war indemnities ," ( 6 ) occupied territories should be evacuated, and ( 7 ) there should be " an examination ... of rival claims.

When Schmeling instead attempted to arrange for a fight against British Empire Champion Tommy Farr, known as the " Tonypandy Terror ,"— ostensibly for a world championship to rival the claims of American boxing authorities — Jacobs outmaneuvered him, offering Farr a guaranteed $ 60, 000 to fight Louis instead.

His birthplace is not known, though Aberdeenshire and Galloway have made rival claims.

The rival claims to the Palatinate of the Duchess of Orléans, Louis XIV's sister-in-law, was the pretext for the French invasion of the Palatinate in 1688, which began the Nine Years War.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

Jefri's older sister, Johanna, is rescued by Pilgrim and Scriber, wandering Tines who bring her to the rival faction, led by Woodcarver.

The situation changed again on 10 February 1306, when Robert the Bruce murdered his rival John Comyn and a few weeks later, on 25 March, had himself crowned king of Scotland by Isobel, sister of the Earl of Buchan.

* Arsinoe IV of Egypt, ( half ) sister and occasional rival of Cleopatra VII of Egypt ( b. 68 or 67 BC )

* Ganymedes ( 1st century BCE ): highly capable adviser and general of Cleopatra VII's sister and rival, Princess Arsinoe.

During his time there, Scáthach faces a battle against Aífe, her rival and in some versions her twin sister.

In Aided Óenfhir Aífe she lives in Letha ( the Armorican peninsula ), and is Scáthach's sister as well as rival – they are both daughters of Ardgeimm.

In Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál, Jörð ( as the personified earth ) is called the rival of Odin's wife Frigg and his other giantess concubines, Rindr and Gunnlöd, the mother-in-law of Sif, Thor's wife, daughter of Nótt, and sister of Auðr and Dagr.

His sister was Malinalxochitl, a beautiful sorceress, who was also his rival.

While Michael was asserting his authority, his rival Yury of Moscow ingratiated himself into the favor of Uzbeg so that he appointed him chief of the Rus ' princes, and gave him his sister, Konchak, in marriage.

Her most bitter rival was the Duchesse Béatrix de Grammont, Choiseul's sister, who had in vain tried her best to acquire the place of the late Marquise de Pompadour, and according to Madame Adélaïde, Béatrix de Grammont would have disdained the comtesse no matter what.

The seven are shocked as they find out that Jack's annoying sister forms a rival club called the Tiresome Three.

In 2001, the show reverted to its old format and moved to ABS-CBN 2 ( a network unrelated to Pat Robertson's CBN and the rival network of GMA 7 ) and ABC 5 ( a network unrelated to the American or Australian networks ), where it aired on its sister station, Studio 23.

During the 1990s, KO Magazine was acquired by London Publishing, becoming a sister of old rival The Ring.

Oshin was also probably responsible for the deaths of King Oshin's sister Princess Isabella of Armenia and two of her sons, in order to remove rival claimants.

Élisabeth Alexandrine was also, however, the younger sister of his main rival, the Duke of Bourbon.

Within the Adephaga there is confusion as well, with various rival proposals in contention ; for example some workers regard the Gyrinidae as being closely related to such families as the Dytiscidae and various other predacious water beetle families, whereas other analyses suggest rather that the Gyrinidae are a sister group to the rest of the Adephaga.

Over time, Andros discovers his sister was kidnapped by Darkonda, an old rival of Ecliptor's with multiple lives.

The cast also includes: Robert Curtis-Brown as Todd, Winthorpe's romantic rival for Penelope ; James Belushi as Harvey, a party-goer on New Years Eve ; Jamie Lee Curtis ' sister Kelly Curtis cameos as Penelope's friend Muffy ; Frank Oz as a corrupt cop ; and Bo Diddley as a pawnbroker.

Second, the Americans ' corporate sister club, the Rochester Knighthawks lacrosse team, had to be split off, since Pegula also owns the Knighthawks ' chief rival, the Buffalo Bandits.

In early 1998 the Scottish Media Group ( SMG ), then led by chairman Gus Macdonald, decided to create a Sunday sister for its existing national morning title The Herald, because the Glasgow-based media group was losing advertising revenue to rival newspaper publishers every Sunday.

However, since mid-2007, MuchMusic and its affiliated channels including MuchMore have been under the same ownership as MTV in Canada, following CTVglobemedia's acquisition of CHUM Limited, meaning the former rival networks are now sister channels.

He began dating Liza Colby ( who had been a bitter rival of his biological sister Jenny Gardner ), and it was Tad who took Liza's virginity.

Also, in the wake of sister station WGTZ's flip to Adult Hits, it has also taken on a more broader Rhythmic direction than ever, which might be due to the competition it has with rival Top 40 WDKF, whose direction leaned Rhythmic.

In Fall 2001, channel 11 dropped the weekday version of Fox Kids and moved it to its longtime rival and new sister station, KCOP ( channel 13 ).