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you will be back in the treehouse of code words and competitions and all the rough rivalries of those we love but do not choose as family.

It remains to be seen whether tackling proliferation is something the world's big powers are ready to put ahead of their own rivalries.

But now a new film goes back to the beginning to show how their alliances and rivalries began.

The politicians in Cairo realised that the matter had gone beyond one of personal rivalries or ambitions.

What halted progress was a potent combination of institutional rivalries, nationalism and an uneasy sense of transgression.

Abroad, this 21st-century president will have to grapple with the sort of great-power rivalries last seen in the 19th century (see article).

"The Song Mountains are full of kung fu rivalries, " a Dengfeng official told me, "just as they have been for centuries. "

The rivalries between the cast members, the excesses and the frustrations will slowly lead him to a surrealistic disaster.

Unequal distributions, however sensible they may seem to parents, often dredge up sibling rivalries.

Competition between EU financial centres is fading, just as the rivalries between London, Manchester and Liverpool once waned.

He would CNN all the rivalries if he had a chance.

As the junior partner in one of the world's fiercest business rivalries, PepsiCo has spent decades fighting for an advantage over Coca-Cola.

The intent to override "turf wars" is a clear hint to Congress that political rivalries will not be allowed to stymie reform.

Any lessening of US forces would risk a power vacuum that might be filled by old rivalries, epitomised by festering Sino-Japanese mistrust.

Mr Sarkozy can no doubt bank, as ever human hair wigs, on help from party splits and personal rivalries.

"Legalisation won't stop organised crime, nor its rivalries and violence, " he said.

As the "Three Kingdoms" in Zhang Fei and Guan Yu and Liu Bei, harbor the same dream, but rivalries between them are not.

To what extent was the murder of General Younes motivated by tribal rivalries?

Even our childhood rivalries and petty differences were no match for the spell of that music.

The principal causes of future wars would not be nation-state rivalries over trade, territory or ideology.

Aside from al-Shabaab, they also have to contend with an ineffective transitional government riven by clan rivalries.

The bigger worry is that this week's pyrotechnics will incinerate wider efforts to stabilise a region full of dangerous rivalries.

Why should anyone in America care? Let these two communist nations battle it out to solve their own rivalries!

The brand of nationalism they preach is still a potent force, but they seem more upset about rivalries at home than abroad.

As the politics and rivalries of the seven human nations waxed and waned, the line of Guardians kept its constant vigil against chaos.

In 2001, the United States overthrew the Taliban, but banditry, tribal rivalries and drug related violence has left the nation unstable.

Back at the office, Mr Yang had to deal with warring fiefs and bitter personal rivalries.

Asia Netcom executives also discovered that common ownership does not preclude serious rivalries between Chinese state-owned firms.

But ethnic and political rivalries appeared to prevent the Alliance from claiming the prize Sunday.

Analysts and commentators are fond of making analogies between great power rivalries of the past and the U. S. -China relationship of today.

The historic rivalries of Ivy League universities in the United States have reached the Internet.

It was about the balance of power, disturbed for a century by Ottoman decline, Russian and Prussian growth and Franco-British rivalries.

Beyond such mundane geopolitical rivalries, the US has a more profound reason to conserve its helium: Every balloon inevitably deflates.

Be able to recognize marquee players, win-loss records, and team rivalries.

Competition would herald a revival of great power rivalries, a return to a world of balancing, hedging and competing alliances.

Britain's McLaren versus Italy's Ferrari is one of the world's great motor sports rivalries.

The dangers of allowing international rivalries to grow are too enormous to be contemplated.

Lifelong friendships and rivalries persist largely between classmates rather than childhood neighbors.

By the way, the 4X100-meter relay is about to start any minute. The biggest rivalries are the Americans and the Canadians.

Mr. Lee on Sunday alluded to the challenges of pursuing closer economic ties amid longstanding historical, political and economic rivalries.

That year, internal rivalries at Citizens for a Sound Economy caused the organization to split apart.

Northwestern fans have cultivated strong rivalries with many Big Ten Conference foes, including Iowa and, particularly, Wisconsin.

That order is challenged now, not just by shifting geopolitical rivalries, but by the new pressures of the Arab spring.

These fault lines and rivalries are testing the movement as it tries to become a lasting force.

Institutions and habits of thought changed, while capital controls and cold war rivalries reinforced reliance on foreign aid.

Instead, age-old rivalries between the south's dozens of different tribes are resurfacing.

Rivalries among Chinese institutions are also often surprisingly resilient.

The High Rep will head foreign operations of both the commission and council, a move supposed to end institutional rivalries.

In the south, however, tribal structures are weaker, warlords tend to dominate and insurgents exploit tribal rivalries.

New great power rivalries, though, are only one part of the emerging picture.

The orange coalition was plagued by rivalries and contradictions, collapsing on several occasions under their own weight.

Although no real rivalries exist between the Striders and other tribes, many werewolves don't trust Owl's followers.

Bad governance, extreme poverty and lingering political rivalries continue to fuel the conflict, he says.

If prosperous little Belgium cannot resolve its internal rivalries, say many, what chance for the EU?

In the realm of negotiation, the question as to whether rivalries and differences of opinion harm or help teams is a critical one.

Rivalries are settled in the market, and if HP can beat IBM at its own game, it will silence its critics.

Other countries with competing tribes manage to carve up economic interests and keep rivalries in check.

In the past, regional rivalries and national interests have stalled the process and it remains to be seen whether that will happen again.

The picture that emerges is one of alliances and rivalries criss-crossing the frontiers of north and south, east and west.

THE Winter Olympics in Turin is the site of brutal combat, dramatic rivalries and tests of cunning and will.

As often as not, however, the rivalries between these states are deeper than those with the west.

Don't fight over other friends. This will only turn friendships into unhealthy rivalries.

So long as a new queen does not make her appearance, rivalries and competition areabsent from the bee policy.

" Dog people " and " cat people " often enjoy friendly rivalries.

The book provides new details on Apple's business dealings and rivalries.

In practice, cross-selling is made difficult by the complexity of different products and the rivalries among bankers.

Second, it will be hard to avoid replacing old regulatory rivalries with new ones.

For too long, Asia has been distracted by rivalries and conflicts between its many great countries.

The Sino-Soviet split revealed the intense rivalries between Mao's China and the Soviet Union.

The world will shrink. The national rivalries we are used to reading about will surface again.

If our relations are defined by win-win solutions rather than zero-sum rivalries, we will thrive and prosper together.

there I experienced by meself why power is so bewitching and how promotion rivalries treated each other.

Changes to EADS's board have also helped to diminish Franco-German rivalries.

These people are cannon fodder in rivalries with bordering states.

That country was paralysed by political rivalries.

There are no real ideological rivalries, but different social networks compete for power and wealth.

and it is keen to draw South Korea closer in the game of regional rivalries (both countries have rows with Japan over disputed islands).

And nothing is more odious, as I have said many times, than the modern obsession with victimhood rivalries and competition over suffering.

They will have to find other ways to act out their rivalries.

As for the common property regime, it will be more efficient to these rivalries but nonexclusive goods.

The new government was torn by rivalries.

Many of English football's rivalries go well beyond mere geography or the events that happen on the pitch.

Attempts to expand the council have long failed because of rivalries between countries.

With India and China, both prodigious consumers of ever-scarcer fresh water, the rivalries are mostly, though not entirely, internal.

down in the world of mortals they experienced rivalries and frustrations, and enjoyed earthly friendships and loves

but bureaucratic and political rivalries between the various municipal and county governments involved

the sheer size of China compared with the smaller states of Europe whose fierce rivalries fostered technological competition;

soon appeared with their melancholy consequences_universal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States,

Fighting famine is complicated by old rivalries and alliances

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