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.

The Dragons later resolved their rivalry against Luke Cage's gang, but were eventually captured in a trap created by both the Kingpin's assassins and Thunderbird's agents.

The goal of reaching the Spice Islands, eventually to be enveloped by the Dutch East Indies Empire, led to the accidental discovery of the West Indies, and lit the fuse of centuries of rivalry between European maritime powers for control of lucrative global markets and resources.

As more Champenois winemakers embarked on this new and completely different wine style, the rivalry with Burgundy mellowed and eventually waned.

Because of the domestic discord caused by Hindley's and Heathcliff's sibling rivalry, Hindley is eventually sent to college.

One of the prominent victims of the political rivalry, the famous poet and statesman Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), was jailed and eventually exiled for criticizing Wang's reforms.

Miyamoto came up with many characters and plot concepts, but he eventually settled on a gorilla / carpenter / girlfriend love triangle that mirrored the rivalry between Bluto and Popeye for Olive Oyl.

This rivalry would eventually lead to the arrest and execution of Van Oldenbarneveldt in 1619.

Exploiting the media's presumption of a rivalry between the two young singers, the song was one of the most successful records in United States of all time, spending record-breaking thirteen weeks on top of the Billboard charts, and eventually garnered the pair a Grammy Award for " Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ".

This rivalry continued even after the Aldus acquisition, because FreeHand was not included, but Adobe eventually acquired Freehand in 2005 with its acquisition of then-owner Macromedia.

This rivalry eventually escalated into the Castellammarese War, which raged from 1928 to 1931 and resulted in 60 mobster deaths.

During the 2003 playoffs the Battalion started what would eventually become a rivalry with the Barrie Colts defeating the Colts in the first round in six games.

It was that rivalry that would eventually lead to Hubmaier's martyrdom.

Some typical conflicts and long running plotlines included Miller's frustration with red tape and paperwork, his constant efforts to maintain peace, order, and discipline, and his numerous failed attempts to get a promotion ; Harris's preoccupation with outside interests, such as his living arrangements but mainly his novel ( Blood On The Badge ), and his inability to remain focused on his police work ; Fish's age-related health issues, marital problems, and reluctance to retire ; Wojciehowicz's impulsive behavior and love life ; Luger's nostalgia for the old days with partners Foster, Kleiner and " Brownie " Brown ; Levitt's quest to become a detective ( which was eventually successful ); the rivalry between the precinct's resident intellectuals, Harris and Dietrich and continually — but reliably — bad coffee ( usually made by Yemana ).

Off the field, it was a troubled season for Scotland in the now rebranded NFL Europe League, where leaked information that a third German team was to be founded to add to the already successful Fire and Galaxy sparked concerns the Claymores may be closed down: eventually however, it would be the England Monarchs who would be replaced by the Berlin Thunder, ending the Battle of Britain rivalry series tied at 4-4.

Perhaps one or another of the two colonial capitals might have eventually been acceptable to the smaller states, but the Sydney – Melbourne rivalry was such that neither city would ever agree to the other one becoming the capital.

Her rivalry with Faustina, fanned by the press, eventually became scandalous when, in a performance of Bononcini's Astianatte ( 6 June 1727 ), attended by princess Caroline, " Hissing on one Side, and Clapping on the other " gave rise to " Catcalls, and other great indecencies ".

Their rivalry eventually came to a conclusive end when Sixshot and Magnus engaged in a one-on-one duel.

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.

Miyamoto came up with many characters and plot concepts, but he eventually settled on a gorilla / carpenter / girlfriend love triangle that mirrored the rivalry between Bluto and Popeye for Olive Oyl.

In 1403 and 1404, growing factionalism and rivalry built, for the most part because of the vacancy caused by Charles ' illness, that eventually would result in civil war between the royal dukes of Burgundy and the Armagnacs, supporters of Charles ' brother, Louis of Orléans.

Their initial rivalry turns to friendship and eventually blossoms into love.

The rivalry was rekindled at the 2007 Pan Arab Games, where the teams drew 0 – 0 ; Egypt eventually claimed the gold medal on goal difference from the Libyans.

It marked a continuation in the rivalry between Marius and Sulla, which would eventually lead to the first of Rome's great civil wars.

His candidacy prompted a rivalry among the ulama and a civil war between the two major tribes, the Hinawi and the Ghafiri, with the Ghafiri supporting Saif ibn Sultan II.

The education and training of the large workforce, the attempts to standardise manufacturing and commercial practices and the moderating of commercial rivalry between supply companies prompted the founding of associations of gas managers, first in Scotland in 1861.

There were also unsuccessful movements to have other province codes changed, such as replacing the Asturias code < tt > O </ tt > ( from its capital Oviedo ) with < tt > AS </ tt >, this movement being prompted by the rivalry between Oviedo and the province's largest city, Gijón, some of whose residents chose to register their vehicles in Girona, the < tt > GI </ tt > code also being the first two letters of " Gijón ".

It was during the late 1960's that the Alice / Steve / Rachel triangle became one of the hottest storylines on daytime, pairing her with George Reinholt as the charismatic Steve Frame, and setting her in a rivalry with " bad girl " Rachel Davis, played at the time by Robin Strasser and later by Victoria Wyndham.

He initially had a rivalry with Robin Chapel, but the two have become good friends and he has expressed a romantic interest in her.

His rivalry with both Emilio de ' Cavalieri and Jacopo Peri seems to have been intense: he may have been the one who arranged for Cavalieri to be removed from his post as director of festivities for the wedding of Henry IV of France and Maria de ' Medici in 1600 ( an event which caused Cavalieri to leave Florence in fury ), and he also seems to have rushed his own opera Euridice into print before Peri's opera on the same subject could be published, while simultaneously ordering his group of singers to have nothing to do with Peri's production.

Despite their early successes, the group were eclipsed in popularity by groups like The Supremes, with whom they shared an intense rivalry and struggled with issues of dismal promotion from Motown, illnesses and mental breakdowns, with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Georgeanna Tillman two years later and Gladys Horton two years after that.

Originally, the plan was to have the rivalry culminate in an on-air wedding where Marlena would leave Goldust for Pillman.

Her and Ran have a strong rivalry and she tries her hardest to do something that would cause Ran to leave Shibuya and thus pave the way for her to be number 1.

As act two opens, the two groups are now in bitter rivalry over who is the normal group (“ A-1 March ”) Another stranger, a French woman in a feathered coat appears.

Going by the name Yuen Lung, Hung became the foremost member of the Seven Little Fortunes ( 七小福 ) performing group, and would establish a friendly rivalry with one of the younger students, Yuen Lo.

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.

However, the importance of the College was shadowed by rivalry between the orthodox views of the " Parisians " group headed by Diogo de Gouveia and the more secular views of the " Bordeaux " school headed by his nephew André de Gouveia, within the advent of the Counter-Reformation and the Society of Jesus.

During the same period the tribe split into four different competing groups living in different villages, a consequence of rivalry between three groups of conservatives, who favored retaining traditional ways, and one group under White Plume which favored accommodation with the United States.

A side-story looked at the rivalry between the EIB ( Extreme Ironing Bureau ) and a breakaway group called Urban Housework who were trying to establish their own extreme sport based around vacuum-cleaning.

Sicot then left and formed a new group and an intense rivalry developed, though they remained good friends.

It should be observed that the supposed rivalry between boxers from Mexico and Puerto Rico has been a balanced one, as the winning percentage for these two groups of boxers against the other group is about the same.

Some scholars have tried to argue that the factional rivalry and violence was a result of opposing religious or political views, but more likely the young men simply identified strongly with their faction for group solidarity.

In 1889, a group of alumni from the Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College played a exhibition game against one another, sparking an early intercity rivalry ( when McMaster University was based in Toronto ).

This group would entertain a rivalry with Professor Charles Xavier's students at the time, the New Mutants.

A rivalry with a fellow Detroit-based group known as Natas began in the late 1990s, when D12 opened for Lil ' Kim at her Detroit show.

The group engaged in a memorable rivalry with D-Generation X ( DX ).

According to Andersen, he was fired for refusing to kill a story about a rivalry between investment bankers Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner that had upset Henry Kravis, a member of the firm's ownership group.

In the 1990s, the Kop of Boulogne developed a rivalry with another PSG supporters group, Auteuil.

His view was that an elite group would breed rivalry and jealousy, and have an adverse effect on morale.

* Plastic Man: Rescued from Arkham Asylum, the completely insane Eel O ' Brian joins Batman's group and has something of a rivalry with the similarly-powered Elongated Man.

One of the main reasons of this bad performance was due to internal rivalry between the Italian fleet commanders: for example, Italian Vice Admiral Albini, with his group of ships, never participated in the battle.

* In an episode of The Simpsons (" Bart of War "), Bart joins a Boy Scouts of America-like group called the " Pre-Teen Braves ", and they engage in a rivalry with " the Cavalry Kids ".

: After losing his title due to an obscure rule, Kinnikuman attempts to return to fighting monsters, only to face rivalry from a Self-Defense group.

Impressed, they invited him to join the group in 1960 and named themselves the Orlons as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the friendly rivalry they had with a popular group at their high school, the Cashmeres.

Hunt ( 1972 ) coined the term strategic group while conducting an analysis of the appliance industry after he discovered a higher degree of competitive rivalry than suggested by industry concentration ratios.