These two competitions breed rivalries between the houses.

The result has been disastrous, as ethnic rivalries sharpened.

Of course, inter tribal rivalries are strong in eastern Libya.

Their military budgets are expanding, and there are regional rivalries.

The ruling elite are known to be torn by disputes and rivalries.

And China is keen to draw South Korea closer in the game of regional rivalries.

Agency rivalries will be avoided. No one will be confused as to who is responsible.

Football matches can, it seems, revive national rivalries and conjure the ghosts of past wars.

Terror is a term that obscures rather than clarifies these long standing clashes and rivalries.

The history of the twentieth century and their longer term rivalries have seen to that.

Bickering rivalries can use it to yell at each other as they would in person.

In the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, old rivalries now unfold in a nuclear context.

But, despite the rivalries and all the chatter, it is clear that Asians are coming closer together.

Europe s old political order was based on competition, mistrust, power rivalries, and, ultimately, war among sovereign states.

But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.

Ancient rivalries and atavistic feuds may or may not be part of this only future crisis will tell.

There are economic and geopolitical rivalries between China and Japan that dwarf in importance the high profile insults to national pride that make headlines. But there are also compelling economic and political inducements toward cooperation that prevent these rivalries from developing into full blown crises.

In fact, the obsession with Syria's sectarian rivalries provides destabilizing external forces with the oxygen that their inflammatory rhetoric requires.

One of the few positive features of the region is that no global power rivalries are currently playing out there.

Rivalries within and among the military services once mimicked the role of competition in the private sector they drove innovation.

Russia s return to the world stage means that new and old rivalries will develop and may even intensify in the future.

But there are also compelling economic and political inducements toward cooperation that prevent these rivalries from developing into full blown crises.

Historical rivalries, vendettas, and weapons are widespread among Libya s tribesmen, which suggest that tribal warfare in the post Qaddafi era is likely.

Europe s historic rivalries have, of course, been civilized into a political model that European diplomats often see as applicable across the international arena.

Economic integration has advanced so far that a return to the national rivalries that twice led the continent into suicidal warfare is unthinkable.

This dynamism could lead to instability, owing to multiple sources of mistrust and the lack of strong regional institutions to help manage rivalries.

While the US presence in the region has so far prevented its numerous conflicts and rivalries from intensifying, sources of uncertainty are multiplying.

Of course, new sources of growth in North Korea could threaten vested interests, leading to institutional rivalries, factional tension, or a conservative backlash.

Arafat presided over a sort of anarchy, encouraging rivalries, undermining other potential leaders, and ensuring that all authority (and money) ran through his hands.

The fall of Muammar el Qaddafi opened a Pandora s box of old rivalries, with Cyrenaica developing into a semi autonomous region known as Barqa.

There are economic and geopolitical rivalries between China and Japan that dwarf in importance the high profile insults to national pride that make headlines.

ECAD Forum reminds us of old rivalries such as the one between the Ethiopians and Kenyans in the athletics middle and long distance races

A half century of reporting on internal LDP rivalries unrelated to actual policy has turned Japan s reporters into the world s greatest connoisseurs of political factionalism.

To its scattered ethnic groups, it performed the twin roles of referee and bouncer, pacifying indigenous rivalries and protecting pint sized nations from predatory states.

For Africa, there are many prospects and for some countries, these games will be a culmination of years of preparation as well as renewed rivalries.

APEC members, too, should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration before new rivalries emerge to thwart their efforts.

The region s continued economic growth and progress require that we Asians contain our rivalries and avoid the arms buildups that, unfortunately, now seem to be underway.

Moreover, no single state can weigh in on international negotiations and offer solutions to economic rivalries or trade issues that threaten to degenerate into political clashes.

Violently torn by religious and ethnic rivalries, Iraq is in no condition to play its part in America s vision of an Arab wall of containment of Iran.

Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Foreign Minister Tzippi Livni have cast aside their political rivalries in order to orchestrate an answer Israel must fight off the Gazan rockets.

But this requires containing tribal and regional polarization, as well as the rivalries between the Interim National Council (INC) and the Military Council (MC), and between senior military commanders.

In East and South Asia, nuclear powers (China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and North Korea) or near nuclear powers (Japan and South Korea) are all entangled in dangerous strategic rivalries.

Only a unified, comprehensive approach can manage the forces driving momentous change in the Middle East, prevent outside powers rivalries from complicating the situation further, and ensure a peaceful outcome.

By picking territorial fights with its neighbors, China is not only reinforcing old rivalries, but is also threatening Asia s continued economic renaissance showing that it is not a credible candidate to lead Asia.

A shift of relative strategic influence and strength is discernible, especially given the rise of India and China. But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.