Plato feels that man has two competing aspects, his rational faculty and his irrational.

Manchester then had two competing power companies until 1904, when the Manchester Light and Power Company purchased the transmission system of the Vail Company.

( The Western Schism had begun in 1378 and there were two competing popes at the time, one in Avignon supported by France and Spain, and one in Rome supported by most of Italy, Germany and England.

One of the key clauses was that companies who made Nintendo games were not allowed to make that game on a competing system for a period of two years.

Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years.

It is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table.

In its most basic form, bridge is a game played by two competing partnerships, i. e. four people.

There is some uncertainty as to how Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah came to be attached to the original Isaiah: the two competing theories are either that Deutero-Isaiah was written as a continuation of Proto-Isaiah, or that it was written separately and became attached to the famous Isaiah later.

However, Doke's orthography was never fully accepted and the South African government introduced an alternative, leaving Shona with two competing orthographies between 1935 and 1955.

This version of croquet varies from six-wicket croquet in that there are nine wickets, two stakes, and players usually compete individually with a single ball, with up to six players competing.

Modern citizenship has often been looked at as two competing underlying ideas:

The Discordian religion offers two competing forces that rely on each other: Order and Disorder ( in Chaos.

'" on the competing claims of two towns to such renown: Stockton, California, and Holliston, Massachusetts.

During this period, the Era of the Northern and Southern Courts, because of the antagonism between the two competing dynasties, public order in Kyoto was disturbed.

Some groups may have multiple FAQ on related topics, or even two or more competing FAQ explaining a topic from different points of view.

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days ' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams.

Pushing players without the ball or competing for a loose ball is also disallowed, and many of these infractions lead to two minute penalties.

The tradition of diglossia, the simultaneous existence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of Greek, was renewed in the modern era in the form of a polarization between two competing varieties: Dimotiki, the vernacular form of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa, meaning ' purified ', an imitation of classical Greek, which was developed in the early 19th century and used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes in the newly formed modern Greek state.

Hershey and Chase were testing two competing hypotheses.

As the war drew to a close, two competing visions for the post-war world emerged.

There were two reasons for this: first, the emergence of further schisms arising from competing reform projects ; and second, a general lack of awareness of Ido as a candidate for an international language.

The Katzenjammer Kids was so popular that it became two competing comic strips and the subject of a lawsuit.

The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) had a show-biz plot about two sisters competing for a charming song and dance man.

" It was used originally for bullfights where two matadors alternate competing for the admiration of the audience.

* Licensees were not permitted to release the same game for a competing console until two years had passed.

Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

For a time there were two factions on the campus fighting for possession of the student body.

The savages divided into two factions ; ;

The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.

A reunion of the two warring factions took place in 1923 when the new Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin committed his party to protective tariffs, causing the Liberals to reunite in support of free trade.

The two factions were originally known as " hard " ( Lenin's supporters ) and " soft " ( Martov's supporters ).

At the end, the Congress was evenly split between the two factions.

The two factions were in a state of flux in 1903 – 1904 with many members changing sides.

At the Fifth Congress held in London in May 1907, the Bolsheviks were in the majority, but the two factions continued functioning mostly independently of each other.

The Central Powers ( German: Mittelmächte ; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak ; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri ; Bulgarian: Централни сили ) were one of the two warring factions in World War I ( 1914 – 18 ), composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

leading to a structure which has been called " one party, two factions ".

The interaction between the two main factions is largely complementary with each faction possessing a particular expertise and both committed to the continued rule of the Communist Party and not allowing intra-party factional politics to threaten party unity.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

The Congress became divided between two factions, between the one supporting Stalin, and those who supported Kamenev and Zinoviev.

The Congress was split between two dominant factions, radicals ( mostly Stalinists ) and moderates.

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

Lastly, he added two new factions to the chariot races, Gold and Purple, to race against the existing White, Red, Green and Blue factions.

The conquest of Syria by the Muslim Arabs in the middle of the seventh century introduced into the land two political factions later called the Qaysites and the Yemenites.

The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party.

However, on 28 December 2005, the leadership of the two factions agreed to submit a single list to voters, headed by Barghouti, who began actively campaigning for Fatah from his jail cell.

To complicate matters, the two leading factions of Nicene Christianity in the East, the Alexandrians and the supporters of Meletius in Antioch, were " bitterly divided ... almost to the point of complete animosity.

His closest advisors formed two factions, setting the framework for the future First Party System.