`` The best condition of it would be an open conflict and rivalry of the diverse systems.

Hunt, who felt a regional rivalry would be critical for the success of the new league, convinced Adams to join and found his team in Houston.

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.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

The Colts would lose to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in the 2003 AFC Championship Game and the 2004 divisional playoffs beginning a rivalry between the two team, and more importantly between Manning and Brady.

During this time the British and Russian Empires were vying for influence in Central Asia, a rivalry which would become known as The Great Game.

But without the Evil Desire, however, no man would build a house, take a wife and beget children ; and thus said Solomon: " Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour.

For reasons of cultural diversity and rivalry, terrain and transport difficulties and the reduction and retaining of the smaller army — a successful army coup would be extremely unlikely.

At the same time, Horace Stoneham moved his New York Giants to the San Francisco Bay Area, ensuring that there would be two west coast NL teams and preserving the longstanding rivalry with O ' Malley's Dodgers that continues to this day.

This was partly due to their bringing with them the relics of Saint Clement ; the rivalry with Constantinople as to the jurisdiction over the territory of the Slavs would incline Rome to value the brothers and their influence.

He later would support Louis in his rivalry with Frederick the Fair of Habsburg, culminating in the 1322 Battle of Mühldorf and in return he received the Egerland as a reward.

Crassus's rivalry with Pompey and his envy of Pompey's triumph would influence his subsequent career.

Feijenoord would grow an intense rivalry with AFC Ajax.

" It is a very far reaching control which would eliminate the rivalry between nations in this field, which would prevent the surreptitious arming of one nation against another, which would provide some cushion of time before atomic attack, and presumably therefore before any attack with weapons of mass destruction, and which would go a long way toward removing atomic energy at least as a source of conflict between the powers ".

Cromwell hoped that this way the colonial rivalry would be eased by giving the English their own profitable empire.

The 1995 AL Division Series would kick off a brief rivalry between the Yankees and the Mariners.

After 2002 the rivalry between the two teams began to cool ; it would be another six years before the Avalanche and the Red Wings would meet again in postseason play.

But following this Super Bowl the rivalry cooled as first the Cowboys and then the 49ers went through lengthy performance slumps.

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.

Feyenoord also have a fierce rivalry abroad in Tottenham Hotspur, who following several violent clashes with the club coupled with a link to Ajax are not popular with the Rotterdam club.

Their rivalry has not always been peaceful — on May 21, 2004, following a dinner held by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on the eve of the wedding of his son Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Vittorio Emanuele punched Amedeo twice in the face.

The following years were marked by a rivalry between the neutralists under Prince Souvanna Phouma, the right wing under Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, and the left-wing Lao Patriotic Front under Prince Souphanouvong and future Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihane.

In the following period of intense rivalry, the Patent Company was handicapped by a shortage of competent actors.

France, in rivalry with Britain for supremacy, began to establish colonies in North America, the Caribbean and India, following Spanish and Portuguese successes during the Age of Discovery.

The following centuries saw rivalry between two houses: the House of Sverker in the Östergötland province, and the House of Eric in the Västergötland province.

Newton's Method of Fluxions was formally published posthumously, but following Leibniz's publication of the calculus a bitter rivalry erupted between the two mathematicians over who had developed the calculus first and so Newton no longer hid his knowledge of fluxions.

Grant, despite his professional rivalry following Shiloh, addressed these charges against Buell in his memoirs, writing:

Imperial rivalry between the British and tsarist Russia preceded the tensions between the Soviets and the West following the Russian Revolution.

Legislative politics was defined in the following years by an intense rivalry between the Federalists, and later the Whigs ( which dominated South Jersey and Essex, Hudson, and Middlesex Counties ), and the Democratic Party ( which was prominent in the northwest, the Shore region, and Bergen County ).

There is also a largely friendly rivalry with Derby County, partly because of the shared fanbase of both of the clubs but particularly following the transfer of manager Nigel Clough to the Championship club and the arrival of several ex-Derby players during the Paul Peschisolido era.

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.

The following week on an episode of Raw, as a result of the rivalry extending between the two programs, General Manager Steve Austin gave Goldberg the option of attending No Way Out by giving him a front-row ticket.

On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Ray started a rivalry with X Division Champion Austin Aries, after interrupting an X Division Championship match between Aries, Anthony Nese, Kid Kash and Zema Ion.

We consider them equal to Robert Clive and Arthur Wellesley and Muslims who are following them are not less than Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq, although situation and circumstances are different but the nature of rivalry and treason is same.

They weren't successful, but lack of cooperation and rivalry continued to plague China through much of the years following, eventually leading to the demise of Chiang's regime in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

The rivalry between the Midland and LNW Railway companies ensured that the line ultimately failed to serve the people of Hemel Hempstead in the most useful way possible, and the last passenger train ran in December 1947, following a ' temporary ' suspension of services due to the national coal shortage.

The club has forged a more recent fierce rivalry with Warrington Wolves following Warrington's emergence as a top 8 team in the competition.

The rivalry between the two clubs has always been intense, with those claiming allegiance to Norwood typically coming from the eastern side of Adelaide, which is the higher socio-economic side of town ; whereas the Port Adelaide Magpies come from the north-west side, leading to a traditional rich-poor split in the following of the two clubs.

She was then attacked by Midajah and had a brief rivalry with her leading to a fight on the following Thunder during Mike Awesome's Lava Lamp Lounge segment.

During the following few years, Nitta's rivalry with Ashikaga Takauji ( and his brother Ashikaga Tadayoshi ) came to a head, with the two planning rebellion, and issuing a call that " Nitta Yoshisada must be destroyed.