London vies with New York as the world's financial capital.
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In Afghanistan, the group vies with the Taliban for primacy.
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Uber, which vies with protectionist taxi fleets, has done well.
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India vies with Brazil as the world's biggest sugar producer.
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IT VIES WITH Sydney Opera House as the most famous symbol of Australia.
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China vies with the U.S. for the title of the world's biggest trading nation.
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The alliance vies with Volkswagen and Toyota for the ranking of the world's biggest automaker.
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VW vies with Toyota and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance as the world's biggest carmaker.
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G.M. vies with Volkswagen for the status of the top-selling vehicle brand in China.
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Now on 15% in some polls, the party vies with the far-right for third place.
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Walmart – Walmart will begin offering Black Friday deals earlier this year, as it vies with Amazon.
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Pau Gasol of Spain vies with Dario Saric of Croatia during a Group B match in Rio.
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Ivory Coast is world's top cocoa producer and vies with the Netherlands for the top grinder spot.
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France vies with the Netherlands for the title of third-largest cold meats producer after Spain and Germany.
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It vies with the orderly immigration of those who follow the rules for immigrants set down in civil laws.
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Absa, which vies with Standard Bank, Nedbank and FirstRand, will rebrand its operations elsewhere in Africa by mid-2020.
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INDIA vies with China to be the world's fastest-growing large economy, but its record on basic sanitation is dreadful.
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The IMA has moved to a sprawling new facility, where it vies with shopping malls and sports arenas in popularity.
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So pervasive is fashion's logo fixation that it vies with, and even outpaces, that of previous, more overtly ostentatious eras.
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Absa, which vies with Standard Bank, Nedbank and FirstRand, will rebrand its operations elsewhere in Africa over the next 12-18 months.
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Kickstarter, which vies with GoFundMe as the largest crowdfunding platform, said it also has a policy prohibiting hate speech or encouraging violence.
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AWS sells a business intelligence tool called QuickSight that vies with Tableau and Qlik as well as start-ups including GoodData and Birst.
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Today, Cannes vies with the Oscars when it comes to fine jewelry, primarily as a result of Chopard's role as a festival partner.
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Siemens Gamesa, which vies with Denmark's Vestas as the world's biggest wind turbine maker, announced a management reshuffle shortly after the board meeting.
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The emissions-cheating disclosures undermined the sterling reputation of German engineering and threatened the viability of a company that vies with Toyota Motor Corp.
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An Olympic boxing broadcast vies with American baseball and football on television screens at Barney's Beanery sports bar and restaurant in West Hollywood, California.
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VW, which vies with Toyota as the world's biggest seller of automobiles, has pledged to launch eight new electric and hybrid cars in 2020.
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Meanwhile, the first "Made in China" Teslas are set to hit the market early next year at a lower price that vies with Nio.
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OPEC-member Angola vies with Nigeria as Africa's biggest crude oil exporter but has to import its fuel due to a lack of refining capacity.
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The election will decide the direction of France's 2.2 trillion euro economy, which vies with Britain for the rank of fifth largest in the world.
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In India, which vies with China for the title of the world's biggest gold market, high prices on Monday are putting off some potential buyers.
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The source also said Mirziyoyev was close to Russia, the former colonial power which vies with the United States and China for influence in Central Asia.
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Rabobank, which vies with ABN Amro as the largest Dutch mortgage lender, has begun selling some of its home loans portfolio to reduce its balance sheet.
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The warning follows gloomy comments last month from Irish budget airline Ryanair, which vies with Lufthansa for top spot in Europe in terms of passengers carried.
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Often set against a grim image of poverty and violence, Mexico City vies with São Paulo, Brazil, for the title of richest city in Latin America.
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Banning Irn-Bru, which vies with whisky as Scotland's national drink, for fear that its bright orange colour posed too great a risk to the ballroom's carpet.
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Singapore, which vies with Hong Kong as Asia's pre-eminent financial center, tightly restricts public demonstrations and does not allow protests over political situations in other countries.
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The intense heat on Buttigieg from some corners of his party comes as he rises in both early state and national polls and vies with Massachusetts Sen.
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Indonesia, which vies with Australia for the title of world's biggest coal exporter, also saw shipments drop in April, to 219 million tonnes from 282.8 million in March.
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Nigeria vies with South Africa's to be the largest economy on the continent, but has performed below par since 2016, when it suffered its first recession in 25 years.
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Australia vies with Indonesia for the title of the world's largest coal exporter, and is dominant in the global market for high-quality coking coal used to make steel.
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Travelers, which vies with American International Group Inc for the title of biggest U.S. commercial property and casualty insurer, increased its quarterly dividend to 67 cents from 61 cents.
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A merger, even a partial one, would effectively bring Suzuki into the orbit of the much larger Toyota, which regularly vies with Volkswagen to be the world's biggest automaker.
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Nigeria's oil-dependent economy, which vies with South Africa's to be the largest in Africa, has performed below par since 2016, when it suffered its first recession in 25 years.
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Siemens Gamesa, which vies with Denmark's Vestas to lead the global wind turbine sector, said revenue for the period rose to 2.26 billion euros from 2.13 billion a year earlier.
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Panama, which vies with Miami for Latin American money, looks set to back out of its tentative commitment to the CRS, using America's double standards as an excuse (see article).
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Given that China now vies with the United States as the largest crude oil importer, especially on a net basis, any sign of slowing SPR builds would no doubt concern exporters.
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Nornickel, which vies with Brazil's Vale SA to be the world's biggest nickel producer, said it expects the nickel deficit on global markets to widen from 15,000 tonnes to 124,000 tonnes.
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Establishing such a "Shi'ite crescent" would give Tehran immense political clout in the region as it vies with arch-rival Riyadh and allow it to protect Shi'ite communities in these countries.
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Keeping users' trust as they increasingly share their personal details with Amazon's intelligent assistant will be key, particularly as Amazon vies with its rivals for share of consumers' time and attention.
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The shift is significant given Australia is the world's largest exporter of iron ore and LNG, and vies with Indonesia as the world's biggest supplier of coal to the seaborne market.
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Samsung Electronics' mobile business, which vies with Apple Inc for global dominance, needed more time to recover in China following a reorganization of its sales network there last year, he said.
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The shift is significant given Australia is the world's largest exporter of iron ore and LNG, and vies with Indonesia as the world's biggest supplier of coal to the sea-borne market.
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The miner, which vies with Brazil's Vale to be the world's biggest nickel producer, also said it has started negotiations with banks over a possible initial public offering of its Bystrinsky project.
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London vies with New York as the world's financial capital and potentially has lot to lose from the end of unfettered access to the EU's post-Brexit market of 440 million people.
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Now the pressure will be on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to set up and fast-track the auction in 2020 as the U.S. vies with China and other nations for 5G supremacy.
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WeChat's mobile pay function vies with Alibaba-affiliate Alipay as one of the primary means of payment in mainland China today, and parent company Tencent is behind the country's first digital bank, WeBank.
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But ARM's move will have a much bigger impact on Huawei's ability to do business, particularly in the smartphone sector where the Chinese firm vies with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for global leadership.
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Australia has just overtaken Qatar as the world's largest shipper or LNG, it vies with Indonesia for the title of world's biggest coal exporter and it is the top exporter or iron ore.
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Mendoza was a big sports fan, and a longtime supporter of the Newell&aposs Old Boys soccer club, which vies with Rosario Central to be the most popular team in the central Argentine city.
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While the EpiPen in Britain vies with Jext and at least one other product called Emerade from Valeant, the Mylan shots have faced a lack of rivals across the Atlantic as competitors suffered setbacks.
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For Singapore this is not a small thing - wholesale and retail trade vies with manufacturing to be the biggest contributor to the city-state's gross domestic product and it is the biggest employer here.
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De Bresson noted that Paris was up against international competition if some in Britain decided to move because it vies with Frankfurt, Dublin and Luxembourg for the role of the EU's key financial center.
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The frisson evaporates, and the game becomes more like church: a profoundly alienating activity where the suspicion that everyone is faking it vies with the fear that everyone is more into it than you.
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A very different sort of Broadway musical set in Europe is "The Sound of Music," from 1959, the world-famous blockbuster that vies with Mozart for being the most famous export of Salzburg, Austria.
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London, which vies with New York as top global financial center, is already a base for U.S. banks like JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Citi and U.K. banks like HSBC have operations in the United States.
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Adecco, which vies with Dutch-based Randstad as the world's largest staffing provider, reported a 3% fall in revenue for its second quarter, a worsening trend from the start of the year when its revenue shrank 2%.
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Next, which vies with rivals including Marks & Spencer for the position of Britain's top clothing retailer, had predicted a 0.5% fall in full-price sales, reflecting a tough comparison with last year when the weather was exceptionally hot.
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It is an uninhabited rock in the South Atlantic ocean that belongs to Tristan da Cunha, a British dependency which itself vies with Easter Island for the honour of being the most remote inhabited place on the planet.
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While the company, which vies with HP as the world's largest PC maker, returned to profit in the year to March, losses in its smartphone business worsened as marketing expenses for new products and key component costs increased.
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Nadella, who led Microsoft's cloud division before taking the helm, has aggressively invested in the company's cloud infrastructure to compete with Amazon Web Services, as well as investing in Microsoft's Office 365 suite, which vies with Google's business apps.
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The house-price-to-earnings ratio in London has risen from seven times average earnings in the early 21980s to 222 times today, so that London vies with New York and Tokyo as the most expensive place to live.
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The International Olympic Committee would be unhappy to see the Games go ahead without Russia, which vies with the United States to be the sport's number one nation but it is looking increasingly likely that that will be the case.
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Alongside MultiChoice and its stake in Tencent, Naspers runs an e-commerce unit, which houses assets such as OLX, the biggest classified ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classifieds platform Letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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His ethnicity does not define him, he said, but he is acutely aware that his presence in the courtroom — suit and tie, turban and beard — is freighted with meaning in a world where emerging acceptance still vies with underlying racism.
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Australia, which vies with Indonesia for the title of world's biggest coal exporter, shipped 9503 million tonnes of fuel in May, according to vessel-tracking and port data compiled by Refinitiv, up slightly from 31.53 million tonnes in May 2018.
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Nebraska often vies with the same schools — among them Arkansas State, McKendree, Sam Houston State and Vanderbilt, the only other school from a so-called Power 5 football conference that has a women's varsity team — for the best junior bowlers.
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Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and vies with Angola for the position of top oil producer, but that also means it is very exposed to fluctuations in the oil market.
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Lenovo, which vies with HP as the world's largest PC maker, saw a return to profit in the year to March, but has seen losses in its smartphone business mount amid rising component costs and swelling marketing spend for new products.
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Lion Air, which vies with state-run airline Garuda Indonesia for dominance in its home market, has been seeking to win over investors for more than a year since the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 MAX jets.
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In India's $12 billion taxi market where Ola vies with ride-hailing giant Uber, the push into electric vehicles is also a way for the Indian start-up to lower the cost of car ownership, once battery costs start to come down.
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Worth around €206bn ($227bn), LVMH now vies with Royal Dutch Shell as the most valuable firm based in the EU. Mr Arnault, whose family owns nearly half of LVMH (and a solid majority of voting rights), is said to be Europe's richest man.
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The carrier, which vies with state-run airline PT Garuda Indonesia for dominance in its home market, has been seeking to win over investors for more than a year since the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 MAX jets in 2018.
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One source close to Boeing, which vies with Europe's Airbus for industry supremacy, said the company needed to turn the corner and regain its stride as it faces what is widely seen as the worst crisis in its more than 100-year history.
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The Tencent stake is worth around $122 billion, or 17 percent more than Naspers despite the company owning other assets such as OLX, the biggest classifieds ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classified platform letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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India, which vies with China as the world's top gold consumer, raised import taxes on the metal to 10% in a series of hikes to August 2013 as policymakers attempted to narrow a gaping current account deficit and arrest a decline in the rupee.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whether U.S. President Donald Trump will travel to Peru in September to promote Los Angeles' 2024 Olympics bid is an open question but many believe the controversial leader would do more harm than good as the city vies with Paris for the Games.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An Azeri company opening a 13 billion euro superyacht marina in Montenegro this month expects the project to pave the way for at least two more luxury resorts as it vies with Dubai and China for a slice of the tiny Balkan country's growing economy.
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The attack on the Champs-Elysees boulevard in the very heart of the capital added a new source of unpredictability to an election that will decide the management of France's 2.2 trillion euro economy, which vies with Britain for the rank of fifth largest in the world.
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As well as a one third stake in China's Tencent, which is worth around $134 billion, Naspers - via its e-commerce business - also owns stakes in OLX, the biggest classifieds ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classified platform letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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Trafigura, which vies with Glencore for the position of the world's second largest oil trader, said traded volumes grew to a daily average of 4.3 million barrels, up 42 percent on 2015 on the back of growing Russian business, larger sales via mid-stream subsidiary Puma and rising structured finance operations.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Australia, which vies with Indonesia for the title of the world's largest coal exporter, is planning for an electricity future where use of the polluting fuel dwindles and is rapidly replaced by renewable energy sources.
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Mann, who won a Fulbright to Taiwan and learned paper-making in India, guides these elements through accident and design into a precarious balance of harmony and clangor, an empire of the senses (to repurpose the title of Nagisa Ōshima's transgressive '70s exercise in erotic cinema) where seduction vies with firepower as the weapon of choice.
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"There seems to still be a trend towards the fried food freak show, whatever you can put on a stick and batter and fry it to get some novelty or media appeal," says Dennis Larson, license administration manager at the Minnesota State Fair, which vies with Texas for the claim of the largest food fair in the country.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Australia, which vies with Indonesia for the title of the world's largest coal exporter, is planning for an electricity future where use of the polluting fuel dwindles and is rapidly replaced by renewable energy sources.
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In Gossip Girl, New York socialite Serena vies with her friends for a spot at Brown.
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The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the > most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart's > jewel, is Mendelssohn's.Steinberg, p.
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Geographically, the neighborhood is situated on and around a hill which vies with Montmartre as the highest in Paris. The name Belleville literally means "beautiful town". A view of Ménilmontant, Paris from the hill of Belleville.
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She flees with Choonda to his village. Sasikuttan (Bala), leader of another Kabaddi team, vies with Choonda and both realize they are brothers, long separated. Sasikuttan stays in the village. He has also fallen in love with a local girl Muthu (Aparna).
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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The winner of this category prize vies with four other category winners (fiction; non-fiction; poetry; young adult literature) for overall Victorian Prize for Literature.
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Goldman's works are characterized by their pleasant and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos. He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum along to his marches. He wrote singing and whistling into the score of "On the Mall" (which vies with "Chimes of Liberty" as his two most- enduring marches).
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"On the Mall" is a famous march composed by American bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman (1878–1956). It vies with Goldman's "Chimes of Liberty" as his two most popular compositions. "On the Mall" still in 2013, as indicated by Jack Kopstein, remains a featured march and continues to be performed and recorded by bands throughout America and around the world.
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Tensions have also arisen due to external factors; the government of the People's Republic of China vies with the Republic of China on Taiwan for influence among the local Chinese community, hoping to gain formal diplomatic recognition from the Panamanian government. Both sides have funded the building of schools and other community facilities and donated millions of dollars worth of Chinese textbooks.
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Netgear sells premium NAS devices to small businesses and consumers under the product name ReadyNAS. With this storage hardware line, Netgear vies with competitors like Buffalo, Zyxel and HP. Netgear entered the storage market in May 2007 when it acquired Infrant (originator of the ReadyNAS line). In March 2009, Netgear began to offer an integrated online backup solution called the ReadyNAS Vault.
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Malcolm is insure if he can get his hands on his inheritance yet, so he fools Martha into believing that a hall they own is being used for artistic purposes. Rehearsals go smoothly until Carol's old rival Fern Wallace turns up and vies with her for the same boy's attention. Eventually, however, the show goes on, with Malcolm getting his money and Martha giving her reluctant blessing.
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Dionysus goes to Asia Minor where he meets the nymph Aura. Aura vies with Artemis in a beauty contest, and Artemis, in spite, has Nemesis make Dionysus fall in love with Aura and pursue her. Ariadne appears to Dionysus in a dream and complains that he has forgotten her. Dionysus rapes Aura as she sleeps; when she awakes she goes mad and slaughters shepherds and destroys a shrine of Aphrodite.
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The Orange County Convention Center, expanded in 2004 to over two million square feet (200,000 m2) of exhibition space, is now the second-largest convention complex in terms of space in the United States, trailing only McCormick Place in Chicago. The city vies with Chicago and Las Vegas for hosting the most convention attendees in the United States.Bergen, Kathy. Las Vegas and Orlando Bruising Chicago's Trade Show Business.
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After the war, the inner city was rebuilt, mostly in modern style. Postwar, Worms became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate; the borough Rosengarten, on the east bank of the Rhine, was lost to Hesse. Worms today fiercely vies with the cities Trier and Cologne for the title of "Oldest City in Germany." Worms is the only German member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network.
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The Bank of England, on Threadneedle Street, is the central bank of the United Kingdom. The City vies with New York City's Downtown Manhattan as the financial capital of the world. Whilst New York is the most significant stock-trading centre, London's foreign exchange market is the biggest in the world, by the amount traded. The London Stock Exchange (shares and bonds), Lloyd's of London (insurance) and the Bank of England are all based in the City.
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Along with Thomas Preston's Cambises (c.1561), the play has been identified as a "hybrid morality", due to its articulation of classical themes, stories and characters with the medieval allegorical tradition.Spivack (1958, 251–303), Bevington (1962, 58–61), and Weimann (1978, 155). Within this genre, the central allegorical figure of the Vice vies with a non-allegorical, classical protagonist (Horestes); though their roles are about the same size, Horestes controls the important action.Bevington (1962, 81–82) and Weimann (1978, 155).
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In some urban areas, infestations of feral European rabbits (descended from pets) have become a problem. Helsinki, for example, host to one of the northernmost populations of the species, had an estimated 2,500 European rabbits at the end of 2006, doubling to 5,000 by autumn 2007. In Iceland, populations of O. cuniculus are found in urban Reykjavik as well as in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. In Finland, the introduced European rabbit vies with the native lagomorphs: the European hare and the mountain hare.
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Fountain is partly located on one of these benchlands. The climate is quite dry, with summer temperatures reputedly hotter than nearby Lillooet which vies with neighbouring Lytton for the title of "Canada's Hot Spot". Located at a higher elevation than Lillooet and exposed to the north and under the shadows of Fountain Ridge and the Clear Range, Fountain is considerably colder in winter. Natural vegetation in the area includes sagebrush and cactus verging into mixed coniferous forest (mostly pine at lower elevations).
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His gaze is severe, wide-eyed and fixed straight ahead in fierce prepossession. His throne and surrounding court, however, present an unorthodox and extravagant profusion of architectural and vegetal elements which — while depicted in fine, realistic, even jewel-like, detail — give the overall impression of a dream-like fantasy world. Everywhere a profusion of vivid colors vies with dark shadows for prominence. Countless teaming gods, goddesses and allegorical figures seem to exist at different scales, independent of, and oblivious to, one another.
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Richie Unterberger of AllMusic called it "one of the Beatles' most powerful love songs", Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described the song as "heart- wrenching soul" and Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called it "a superb sobber from misery-expert J. W. O. Lennon, MBE. And still one of the most highly underrated Beatle underbellies." Author Ian MacDonald praised "Don't Let Me Down" and declared that "this track vies with Come Together for consideration as the best of Lennon's late-style Beatles records".
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"Chimes of Liberty" is a military march by Edwin Franko Goldman (1878–1956). It vies with "On the Mall" (another march) as Goldman's greatest hit. Many think "Chimes of Liberty" is a re-working of the Liberty Bell (march) by John Philip Sousa; however, although the influence of Sousa on Goldman is unquestionable, the two marches are totally different, being written by different composers, each with a different tone. Nonetheless (like Sousa's "Liberty Bell") Goldman's "Chimes of Liberty" does use chimes.
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He scored 156 points in fifteen games on the 1974 Lion tour. He also played for the Barbarians during their 1976 Easter Tour. In the 1974 tour, he adopted many South African tactics and styles of play, although JPR Williams was preferred as full back for the tests, limiting Irvine to two test appearances on the wing. Irvine vies with Ken Scotland, Gavin Hastings and Stuart Hogg for the title of Scotland's greatest ever fullback, with incisive running at a blistering pace from the back his trademark.
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Charles Reid, nicknamed Hippo, was a Scottish international rugby player.Bath, p37 He was capped twenty times for between 1881-88. Reid vies with Ninian Finlay for the title of the youngest player ever to be capped for - he was seventeen years and thirty six days old when he was capped against on 19 February 1881; however, Reid had lived through an extra leap year day, when he was capped in 1881, so Finlay generally gets that title.Bath, p65 He played at second row/lock.
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Aunt Bee and her friend Clara Edwards (Hope Summers) Aunt Bee's closest friend in Mayberry is widow Clara Edwards (Hope Summers). Although Clara is a well-meaning woman, she often proves irksome when positioning herself as Bee's rival for the attentions of the single, older gentlemen passing through Mayberry. She vies with Bee in cooking contests and flower shows and replaces her in the town pageant when Bee realizes she has no talent for theatricals. Clara and Bee attended school together as girls, even playing on the same basketball team.
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But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night > (Nyx), and the son of Cronus [i.e. Zeus] who sits above and dwells in the > aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She > stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he > considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put > his house in good order; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries > after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.
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With Mr Humphries forced by circumstance to share a bed with Mavis, he finds that she develops a bit of a crush on him. This series of events leads all of the cast to assume they are having an affair, which flatters Mr Humphries, though he denies any such goings-on. Despite these events, Mr Humphries continues to be rather ambivalent to the idea of a relationship with anyone. A young man from the village vies with Humphries for Mavis' affection, and frequently attempts to intimidate him by threatening him with violence.
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See Discussion for an overview of the ambiguous use of characterization in The Knights. Short summary: A sausage seller, Agoracritus, vies with Cleon for the confidence and approval of Demos ('The People' in Greek), an elderly man who symbolizes the Athenian citizenry. Agoracritus emerges triumphant from a series of contests and he restores Demos to his former glory. Detailed summary: Nicias and Demosthenes run from a house in Athens, complaining of a beating that they have just received from their master, Demos, and cursing their fellow slave, Cleon, as the cause of their troubles.
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As a signal for a planned rendezvous, she wants to pass him a glass of water during a ball. Henry thus explains to Sarah that she has a rival, but does not name names. However, at the queen's next ball she vies with the queen for Masham's favour and then panics, meaning both she and Masham have to resign their roles as the queen's confidantes. Even so, the tide seems to be turning in Sarah's favour when she and a few other ladies surprise the queen during a night-time meeting with Masham.
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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. The prize was formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name.
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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has a remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. The prize was formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction from inception until 2010 when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name.
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John Locke by Godfrey Kneller (1697) Along with Rousseau's Emile (1762), Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education was one of the foundational eighteenth-century texts on educational theory. In Britain, it was considered the standard treatment of the topic for over a century. For this reason, some critics have maintained that Some Thoughts Concerning Education vies with the Essay Concerning Human Understanding for the title of Locke's most influential work. Some of Locke's contemporaries, such as seventeenth-century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, believed this as well; Leibniz argued that Some Thoughts superseded even the Essay in its impact on European society.
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Built in 1875, the Mitsuke school vies with the Former Nakagomi School in Saku, Nagano for the title of the "oldest western school building in Japan". As with the Nakagomi School, the wooden school building is an example of the Giyōfū-style of the early Meiji period, a pseudo-Western style of architecture which incorporates both western and Japanese elements. The building originally had three stories on a stone foundation, but was enlarged in 1883 with the addition of a two-story tower. The tower contained a drum, rather than a bell, for telling the time.
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The Shinshū Honbyō, the mausoleum of Shinran, is now owned by the Ōtani-ha but is still commonly called Higashi Honganji (東本願寺) by Kyoto visitors and locals. The massive Goei-dō (also known as Mie-dō), or Founder's Hall Gate, is often one of the first things one sees walking north from JR Kyōto Station. Nearly identical to the Nishi Hongan-ji head temple in layout, it too features an Amida-dō, and a larger Mie-dō. The Mie-dō at Higashi Hongan-ji dates from 1895 and vies with a number of other structures for the claim of largest wooden building in the world.
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" The Boers believed that he might have been attempting to outflank their positions at Laing's Nek. The hill was not considered to be scalable by the Boers, for military purposes, and hence it may have been Colley's attempt to emphasise British power and strike fear into the Boer camp. The battle is considered to have been one of the most humiliating defeats of British arms in history."It can hardly be denied that the Dutch raid on the Medway vies with the Battle of Majuba in 1881 and the Fall of Singapore in 1942 for the unenviable distinctor of being the most humiliating defeat suffered by British arms.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, starting as early as 1912 with the purchase of two floatplanes from Britain and one from the United States. By December 1922, Japan had completed Hōshō, which vies with as the first ship purpose-designed for aircraft operations. Alongside that development, the Navy also looked at aircraft as a way to extend the operational reach of their large submarine force. Aware of the challenge of operations in the large expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Navy was particularly looking at ways to improve their reconnaissance capability and saw submarine-based aircraft as a complement to land--based patrol.
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During a day at an airport in London, many complications arise, involving both passengers and airline crew members. Pilot Gus Randall (Anthony Steel) is a compulsive gambler who is caught up in a smuggling ring as well as a love triangle; Nick Millbourne (Robert Beatty) is the chief duty officer who wants to get back in the sky and vies with Gus for the attention of stewardess Penny Henson (Eunice Gayson); and passengers Bill Steiner (David Knight) and German Leah Rosch (Margo Lorenz) cross paths on opposite journeys; after their flights are grounded by bad weather, they fall in love. Nick and Penny also find happiness together.
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Hiwasa Hachiman Jinja Autumn Festival A two-day harvest festival held one weekend early October every year. On the first day of the festival, the eight neighborhoods in Hiwasa parade their portable shrine on wheels through the streets of the town while praying for the safety of the townspeople and success in fishing. On the second day about 50 men from each neighborhood carry the portable shrine onto the beach and finally into the ocean, quite literally, proceeding through the waves to the far end of the beach. Each neighborhood vies with the others to put on the most spectacular display and also to prove their strength and bravery by taking their shrine furthest through the ocean waves.
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Then, Tregarth is contacted by Dr. Jorge Petronius, a man with an amazing reputation for hiding men in dire straits. Petronius recounts a fantastic tale of a stone of power, the Siege Perilous of Arthurian legend, that has the power of opening a gateway to a world attuned to the person who sits on it. Disbelieving, but with little to lose, Tregarth gives up all the money he has left, and is transported to a land where magic vies with more mundane swords and bows. He arrives in a nearly empty countryside, just in time to witness a savage hunt: a lone woman being chased down by hounds followed by two horsemen.
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As the Hittite empire collapsed from the onslaught of the Indo-European Phrygians (called Mushki in Assyrian annals), Babylon and Assyria began to vie for Aramaean regions (in modern Syria), formerly under firm Hittite control. When their forces encountered one another in this region, the Assyrian king Ashur-resh- ishi I met and defeated Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon on a number of occasions. Assyria then invaded and annexed Hittite-controlled lands in Asia Minor, Aram (Syria), and Gutians and Kassite regions in the Zagros, marking an upsurge in imperian expansion. Tiglath-Pileser I (1115–1077 BC), vies with Shamshi-Adad I and Ashur-uballit I among historians as being regarded as the founder of the first Assyrian empire.
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As the Hittite empire collapsed from the onslaught of the Indo-European Phrygians (called Mushki in Assyrian annals), Babylon and Assyria began to vie for Aramaean regions (in modern Syria), formerly under firm Hittite control. When their forces encountered one another in this region, the Assyrian king Ashur-resh-ishi I met and defeated Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon on a number of occasions. Assyria then invaded and annexed Hittite- controlled lands in Asia Minor, Aram (Syria), and Gutians and Kassite regions in the Zagros, marking an upsurge in imperian expansion. Tiglath-Pileser I (1115–1077 BC), vies with Shamshi-Adad I and Ashur-uballit I among historians as being regarded as the founder of the first Assyrian empire.
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His daughter Sarah married one of his Daily Mirror employees, Tex McCrary, who later became a radio-TV personality with second wife Jinx Falkenburg. A 1926 Time magazine cover story described his influence like this: > The New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco > Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say > nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy > syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane has said. His column is > headed, with simple finality, "Today," a column that vies with the weather > and market reports for the size of its audience, probably beating both. It > is said to be read by a third of the total U. S. population.
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According to the European Statistical Agency, London is the largest Larger Urban Zone which uses conurbations and areas of high population as its definition. A ranking of population within municipal boundaries places London first. However, the University of Avignon in France claims that Paris is first and London second when including the whole urban area and hinterland, that is the outlying cities as well The city generates approximately 20 per cent of the UK's GDP (or 1'000 Pound Sterling in 2005); while the economy of the London metropolitan area—the largest in Europe—generates approximately 30 per cent of the UK's GDP (or an estimated £5'000 in 2005). London is one of the pre- eminent financial centres of the world and vies with New York City as the most important location for international finance.
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The Thompson Country is semi-arid and desert-like, except in the upper reaches of the North Thompson and in the higher areas of the plateaus to the north and south of the river (the Bonaparte Plateau and Thompson Plateau respectively). Because of the low elevation of the valley's floor, winter temperatures are not too severe, and with the region in the immediate rainshadow or the Coast Mountains and Cascade Range, summer temperatures are among the hottest in Canada. The main image of the region is sagebrush and rangeland, with benchlands flanking the Thompson's deepening canyon from Savona downstream, and desert and, higher up, pine-covered mountains and hillsides flanking the river and Kamloops Lake, which lies at the heart of the region. Lytton vies with nearby Lillooet for the title of "Canada's Hot Spot", with summer temperatures regularly above .
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During the First Anglo-Dutch War the English fleet concentrated on privateering against the Dutch merchant fleet. An example of this is the Battle of Dungeness in December 1652, in which Maarten Tromp was able to keep the Channel open for Dutch trade. In the Second Anglo-Dutch War five major battles took place, nearly all of them in English waters. It was during this period that the Raid on the Medway (1667) took place, the worst naval defeat in English history."It can hardly be denied that the Dutch raid on the Medway vies with the Battle of Majuba in 1881 and the Fall of Singapore in 1942 for the unenviable distinctor of being the most humiliating defeat suffered by British arms." - Charles Ralph Boxer: The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th Century, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London (1974), p.
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Paraguayan Spanish () is the set of dialects of the Spanish language spoken in Paraguay. In addition, it influences the speech of the Argentine provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, Formosa, and, to a lesser extent, Chaco. Paraguayan Spanish possesses marked characteristics of Spanish previously spoken in northern Spain, because the majority of the first settlers were from Old Castile and the Basque Country. The Guarani language is co-official with Spanish in Paraguay,Simon Romero, "An Indigenous Language With Unique Staying Power", The New York Times, March 12, 2012 and most Paraguayans speak both languages.William R. Long, "Native Guarani Vies with Spanish Paraguay's 2 Languages Source of Pride, Concern", Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1988 Guaraní is the home language of more than half the population of Paraguay, with higher proportions of its use in rural areas, and those who speak Spanish at home slightly in the majority in the cities.
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His function here is to chase a string of characters who had all been chasing each other (à la "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"). A skunk often identified as Pepé appears in the Art Davis-directed cartoon Odor of the Day (1948); in this entry, the theme of romantic pursuit is missing as the skunk (in a non-speaking role, save for a shared "Gesundheit!" at the finish) vies with a male dog for lodging accommodations on a cold winter day. This is one of the two cartoons where the character, if this is indeed Pepé, uses his scent-spray as a deliberate weapon: shot from his tail as if it were a machine gun. The other one is Touché and Go, where he frees himself from the jaws of a shark by releasing his odor into the shark's mouth.
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The Free Press published a book edited from contents of the session. Milton L. Barron reviewed it, saying that the book reflects the importance of anomie theory to the analysis of social problems and that the theory of anomie vies with concepts such as "social forces, consciousness of kind, culture, primary and secondary groups, social disorganization, and differential association" and that the combination of Clinard's opening essay "The theoretical implications of anomie and deviant behavior" and Merton's concluding essay "Anomie, anomia, and social interaction" provide a framework within which these theories can vie. Barron specifically recommends to students of crime and delinquency the treatments of gang delinquency by Short, of drug addiction by Lindesmith and Gagnon and of inebriety and alcoholism by Charles R. Snyder. In 1967 Clinard and Richard Quinney, a Ph. D. student at University of Wisconsin–Madison in the late 1950s, published a book which proposed, in place of a legalistic or an individualistic classification of criminal behavior, a division of eight criminal behavior types characterized by sociological properties and based on a theory of crime.
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