Iran s New Contender

The declining average is partly due to a furiously trading fringe.

Some of the stockpiles are in fiercely contested areas.

As a result, no rival to Rahul Gandhi has emerged.

Democracy today has no rivals, but it is losing support.

It is an ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years, imbued with fierce national pride.

Mariusz Pudzianowski is a highly successful strongman competitor and has won more World's Strongest Man titles than any other competitor in the world, winning the event in 2008 for the fifth time.

So, will China s plan for transforming the renminbi into an international rival to the dollar succeed?

However, the lack of vendors' support is preventing it from being a real competitor.

This year, BNP s great rival, Société Générale, has been in the spotlight.

Imagine traveling 67 kilometers by motorized canoe in search of a rival for a sporting match.

Sarkozy stands ready to pounce on any mistakes the Bank may make in this more difficult policy environment.

Sensing Zardari s weakness, his main rival, Nawaz Sharif, is said to be plotting a political comeback.

Anyone who thinks we are building a European rival to America has not looked properly at the facts.

Obama s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised to declare China guilty of currency manipulation the day he takes office.

However, a few days later, the defense minister, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, a fierce critic of Hichilema, disclosed that two retired generals had been paid by an unnamed person to assassinate President Sata.

Asaad Abu Khalil, author of the Angry Arab blog and a fierce opponent of the Syrian revolution, linked to Hadidi s tweetsand alerted readers to their sectarian quality.

In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger.

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But should a credible foreign offer for Société Générale appear in the coming weeks and it well might another disruptive conflict between the Bank of France and the government may be in the offing.

All members of the presidential election commission are Mubarak appointees, and the new election rules eliminated any independent challengers.

We have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state.

As a result, the past 12 18 months have seen a shift in perceptions of Russia from a strengthening partner and potential ally to a weakening rival.

As military rule became the norm in Africa in the 1970 s, northern army officers imposed an authoritarian and predatory mode of governance on the country, a vicious grip that was loosened only when a resurgent civil society forced them to return to the barracks in 1999.

The PRI demonstrated in this election that it had more money, unity, discipline, and hunger for success than its adversaries.

It may be, as President Mubarak s critics argue, that the faltering progress of democratization reflects the attempt to block all potential challengers to Gamal.

In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds.

He also explained that Puntland was essentially rich in natural resources that were unexploited due to an inability to attract foreign investment, but that, ironically, the coastal waters and fisheries areas were ruthlessly exploited by foreign vessels.

Despite considerable Israeli disgust with Netanyahu s party, allies, and policies, no credible rival exists.

Kerry's remaining competitor, John Edwards, talks about how the gap on trade between him and Kerry is wide and deep with Kerry on the free trade side.

A potential competitor might consider entering that market but, given substantial regulatory entry barriers, it might ultimately decide to remain in its current business.

In another episode, members of the Mexican Federal Police are seen assaulting a drug lord in his hacienda, with the implication that they are only doing the bidding of a rival dealer.

If you're playing against a very good opponent, they may distribute it in that green area, which is the prior distribution, making it hard for you to return.

As the economist Marco Fortis points out, Italian family wealth is still, if not for long, second to none in Europe.

Yet, this idea, too, has strong support within the Republican Party led by Ron Paul, another contender for the party s presidential nomination.

In the current presidential election campaign, the Democratic Party is attacking Obama s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on the same specious grounds, with a complacent media acquiescing in the Democrats de facto India baiting.

Seeking the governorship (1883 1885) In 1883, Ohio Governor Charles Foster, a Republican who had held the office since 1880, looked for a Republican contender to succeed him.

This tendency is reinforced by the rise of cable television, which attracts viewers by means of contentious infotainment programs, and Internet bloggers, who engage in fierce polemics with no editorial filter.

When the MPs reassembled, the opposition members now joined by MPs from a rival regional party marched towards the Speaker s desk, making even more noise.

Flug was finally offered the top job only in the absence of a male rival, though she was already occupying the position temporarily while the board searched for Stanley Fischer s successor.

But most of the traditional religious teachers in such schools practice Senegalese rituals of respect, and, in any case, view Saudi Arabian style schools as alien competitors.

Rationale The simplicity of this technology is one of the main reasons why it could in the future be turned into a serious competitor to machines based on conventional hardware.

Ever protective of his position as sole leader of the Palestinian people, Arafat sought to block any means by which a potential rival could challenge him.

In October 2013 the VVER 1000 (AES 92) design was selected by the Jordan Atomic Energy Commissionin a competitive tender for Jordan's first twin reactor nuclear power station.

European competition policy, which successfully brought giant companies like Microsoft into line to promote competition, could help to turn Gazprom into a normal competitor, too.