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The rivalry between English captain WG Grace and his opposite number Billy Murdoch was hotly anticipated.
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those watching the growing rivalry between craft unions and industrial unions may recognize all the pressures that led to the big labor split in 1935.
suspicion between member states still existed, but it was of about the same low order of virulence as the twentieth-century rivalry between Arizona and California over water supplies.
Military action was heavily influenced by the Russian military, which inspired and manipulated the rivalry between the two neighbouring nations in order to keep both under control.
The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").
Stilicho also claimed to be the guardian of Arcadius, causing much rivalry between the western and eastern courts.
This rumour has been attributed by some to a rivalry between the German and the Italian schools of music.
It is a story that builds on the rivalry between a meticulous but untested officer ( Gandolfini ) serving as the warden of a military prison and an imprisoned but much admired and highly decorated general ( Redford ).
The rivalry has existed for some time with PSV and stems from various causes, such as the different interpretations of whether current national and international successes of both clubs and the supposed opposition between the Randstad and the province.
After years of intense rivalry between the navy and the air force for the control of naval aviation, President Castelo Branco decreed in 1965 that only the air force would be allowed to operate fixed-wing aircraft and that the navy would be responsible for helicopters.
As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.
* Duel In The Somme-Holbrook illustrated a story by Ben Bova and Rob Balder in this strip about a romantic rivalry between a computer-simulation designer and his boss.
However, rivalry between Hadjerai, Zaghawa and Gorane groups within the government grew in the late 1980s.
Two civil wars resulted from bitter rivalry between the Conservative and Liberal parties.
A recent rivalry has developed between the Panthers and Arizona Cardinals.
The Cardinals – Cubs rivalry refers to games between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cubs.
Because of the rivalry between Chiang and Li, Chiang refused to allow Nationalist troops loyal to him to aid in the defense of Guangxi and Guangdong, with the result that Communist forces occupied Guangdong in October 1949.
However, while bitheism implies harmony, ditheism implies rivalry and opposition, such as between good and evil, or bright and dark, or summer and winter.
Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.
In addition to this rivalry between Britain and Russia, there were two specific reasons for British concern over Russia's intentions.
In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.
There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.
A bitter rivalry between the Earl of Essex and Robert Cecil, son of Lord Burghley, and their respective adherents, for the most powerful positions in the state marred politics.
Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the vi and Emacs text editors.
Although Emperor Kōgon ruled as cloistered Emperor, the rivalry between Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Tadayoshi began, and in 1351, Takauji returned to the allegiance of the Southern Court, forcing Emperor Sukō to abdicate.
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The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s.
Manchester United started to dominate English football during the 1990s, making the rivalry all the more intense.
He spoke English fluently ( as well as four other foreign languages ) and as a naval officer of the old school, he respected Great Britain's Royal Navy despite the rivalry between the two nations.
Cromwell hoped that this way the colonial rivalry would be eased by giving the English their own profitable empire.
The war ended on 5 April 1654 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster ( ratified by the States-General on 8 May ), but the commercial rivalry was not resolved, the English having failed to replace the Dutch as the world's dominant trade nation.
Forbes's testimony should be appraised in perspective of the contemporary Anglo-American commercial rivalry, In light of the partial nature of the account and of his " jealousy, even antipathy " towards the English in Rio de la Plata.
In the 17th century, when English settlers arrived in Connecticut, southeastern Connecticut was the scene of rivalry between the Pequot, the dominant Native American group in the New London area, and their rivals the Mohegans, who were friendly to the English.
In an era of economic rivalry in Europe, Scotland was incapable of protecting itself from the effects of English competition and legislation.
This rivalry had spread to the other side of the world where English and French India companies had already embarked upon hostilities.
The Oxford English Dictionary connects " go Dutch " with " Dutch treat " and other phrases many of which have " an opprobrious or derisive application, largely due to the rivalry and enmity between the English and Dutch in the 17th c ," the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
The war marked the beginning of a rivalry between two powerful men in Europe: William III ( who would later invade England in support of the claim of his wife, Queen Mary II, to the English throne as part of the " Glorious Revolution ") and Louis XIV.
In the last two decades, a strong rivalry with Bayern Munich has emerged, known as Der Klassiker ( English: The Classic ).
Newcastle and Sunderland have a history of rivalry beyond the football pitch, dating back to the early stages of the English Civil War, the rivalry following on industrial disputes of the 19th century and political rivalries after the 1974 creation of Tyne and Wear County.
Robert " Bob " Stokoe ( 21 September 1930 – 1 February 2004 ) was an English footballer and manager who was able, almost uniquely, to transcend the traditional north-east rivalry between the region's footballing giants, Newcastle United and Sunderland.
Boston Latin has played rival Boston English in football every Thanksgiving since 1887, the oldest continuous high school rivalry in the United States.
* It was used by Argentinians in the context of the football rivalry between the Argentine and English national teams.
This created a growing rivalry between the Criollos, people born in America, and the peninsulares, people arrived from Europe ( the term " Criollo " is usually translated to English as " Creole ", despite being unrelated to most other Creole peoples ).
There was fierce rivalry between the French and English and their respective Native allies.
In the 1991 World Championship Spencer lost his first match to Ray Edmonds 10 – 4, finally giving Edmonds a victory over Spencer in a rivalry that stretched back to Spencer's victory over him in the 1965 English Amateur Championships.
Alphonse and his brother Gustave developed somewhat of a rivalry with their English cousin Nathaniel de Rothschild who had moved to Paris after marrying their sister Charlotte.
Scotland have a strong rivalry with the English national team.
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