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.

Red Sox history has also been marked by the team's intense rivalry with the New York Yankees, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports.

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.

By the 1907 – 1908 season, Hellas was playing against regional teams and an intense rivalry with Vicenza Calcio that lasts to this day was born.

In addition, political rivalry from the Bilala clan was becoming intense.

Manchester United started to dominate English football during the 1990s, making the rivalry all the more intense.

Even so, as part of the intense rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers, some Dodger fans derisively refer to AT & T Park as " The Phone Booth ," owing to its current and former names ( Pac Bell Park, SBC Park ).

All three letters of John likely date from the mid-first-century, during a time of intense inter-apostolic rivalry between Paul and the Jerusalem leaders, evidenced most dramatically, for example, in Paul's epistle to the Galatians.

* Springfield and Shelbyville from The Simpsons are usually presented as twin cities with an intense rivalry.

There was intense rivalry during the 1990s among the best programmers, graphic artists and computer musicians to continually outdo each other's demos.

Feijenoord would grow an intense rivalry with AFC Ajax.

The strips also detailed a more intense rivalry between the kids and the comic's cover star Dennis the Menace.

Danny also has an intense rivalry with Beano star Dennis the Menace and his gang menaces.

He also dislike Roger the Dodger, though is willing to ask when in need of a dodge, and Minnie the Minx, however the rivalry is no where near as intense.

Historically, their biggest rivals have been the New York Rangers, with an intense rivalry stretching back to the 1970s, the New Jersey Devils, with whom they traded the Atlantic Division title every season between and, and their bitter cross-state rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The incident marked the beginning of a rivalry often considered one of the most intense in NHL history by the press and fans.

The rivalry between the Avalanche and the Red Wings was most intense from 1996 to 2002.

The rivalry had been less intense since the retirements of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the early 1990s, but in 2008 it was renewed as the Celtics and Lakers met in the Finals for the first time since 1987, with the Celtics winning the series 4 – 2.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s an intense rivalry developed between the two clubs.

The football team shares an intense rivalry with Western Washington University ( who will also be joining the NCC in 2006 ).

Vienna was wracked by a bourgeois revolution on February 24, 1848, and the intense rivalry between father and son became much more apparent.

Johann Strauss II often played his father's works and openly declared his admiration of them, although it was no secret to the Viennese that their rivalry was intense, with the press at that time fueling it.

According to biographer Michael David Harris, " Sullivan signed Presley when the host was having an intense Sunday-night rivalry with Steve Allen.

They have an intense rivalry with city rivals, East End Lions ,.

The whole official City apparently has an intense hatred toward birds.

Foreseeing the possible threats to safety with the rapid growth of the sport, the industry has been supporting an intense, coordinated educational program with great success since 1947.

Since then commercial interest in mouthwashes has been intense and several newer products claim effectiveness in reducing the build-up in dental plaque and the associated severity of gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ), in addition to fighting bad breath.

Since the first pioneering efforts of Florey and Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials, to medicine has led to intense research into producing antibacterials at large scales.

The intense secrecy surrounding the base, whose very existence the U. S. government did not even acknowledge until 29 September 1995, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object ( UFO ) folklore.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

The LINC proved to attract intense interest in the scientific community, and has since been referred to as the first real minicomputer, a machine that was small and inexpensive enough to be dedicated to a single task even in a small lab.

The competition with Philadelphia has been particularly intense since the late 1970s, when the long-moribund Eagles returned to contention.

However, demarcation has been delayed, despite intense international intervention, by Ethiopian insistence that the decision ignored " human geography ," made technical errors in the delimitation, and determined that certain disputed areas, specifically Badme, fall to Eritrea.

These examples of heritability that operate above the gene are covered broadly under the title of multilevel or hierarchical selection, which has been a subject of intense debate in the history of evolutionary science.

Italy has a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size, but there is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, as in the Northern " industrial triangle " ( Milan-Turin-Genoa ), where there is an area of intense industrial and machinery production, notably in their several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.

While initial enthusiasm for the Iranian revolution in the Muslim world was intense, it has waned as " purges, executions, and atrocities tarnished its image ".

Eight months after Syria withdrew from Lebanon under intense domestic and international outrage over the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri the UN investigation has yet to be completed.

Although quoted virtually uncritically from the 8th to 18th century, the Liber Pontificalis has undergone intense modern scholarly scrutiny as an " unofficial instrument of pontifical propaganda.

Although Nova Scotia has a somewhat moderated climate, there have been some very intense heatwaves and cold snaps recorded over the past 160 years.

Neon plasma has the most intense light discharge at normal voltages and currents of all the noble gases.

The same forbidden nature of the f-f transitions makes rare-earth colorants less intense than those provided by most d-transition elements, so more has to be used in a glass to achieve the desired color intensity.

On the other hand, nuclear weapons are specifically engineered to produce a reaction that is so fast and intense it cannot be controlled after it has started.

Regions of the cerebral cortex associated with pain. Wilhelm Erb's ( 1874 ) " intensive " theory, that a pain signal can be generated by intense enough stimulation of any sensory receptor, has been soundly disproved.

The bark is cheaper than bark of Cinchona, and as it has an intense taste, it is used for making tonic water.

There has been speculation that Heinlein's intense obsession with his privacy was due at least in part to the apparent contradiction between his unconventional private life and his career as an author of books for children, but For Us, The Living also explicitly discusses the political importance Heinlein attached to privacy as a matter of principle.

The NGO has stated that while most of these incidents remain defensive in nature and are not like the large offensives from years past, FARC actions have been growing since 2005, and the rebel group is currently carrying out intense operations against small and medium-sized Colombian military units in vulnerable areas.

Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the object that crashed.

Conversion therapy has been a source of intense controversy in the United States and other countries.