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    1. The privateer attack carrier Hardway is drafted into a force group commanded by Harry Cozen's bitter rival from Staas Company


    2. “The three-dimensional seal ensured the witch's pact with two rival demons, one of the void and one of the fire”, explained Arion, as we were crossing the stone bridge, having just abandoned the tower


    3. “Commander Duncan, if you would come with me, I shall show you some of the swords in my collection,” Naria purred in a silky voice, “They do not rival this beautiful Bowie knife, but you will find them interesting nonetheless


    4. “Aha, you are right Matai, she does have appetites that rival any man's


    5. For a while now, a rival group has been studying the village, through studying and manipulating one of its inhabitants; a mere child that goes by the name of ‘Sunil Yohannan’, even going so far as to install a brainwashing device


    6. He said there was some kind of rival group that was studying it


    7. "He said that this rival group had done something weird with Sunil Yohannan‘s head


    8. Though they introduce some rival commodities into the old market, they open many new markets to its produce


    9. It seems to have constituted almost the whole circulation of that country; for though the circulation of the Bank of Scotland, which had then no rival, was considerable, it seems to have made but a very small part of the whole


    10. But why sell Dzunga to his rival? Most of all, Nerissa wondered why Lady Phyllis would tolerate such a lusty and attractive slave girl in her home

    11. I couldn’t even hate Chloe as a rival


    12. cause friction between some of the rival


    13. The most important reason she claimed, albeit quite cogently, was the concern for being targeted by rival businesses, or even terrorist organizations who were ideologically opposed (she had been to and witnessed numerous corporate establishments; her mandate was to be as secretive as possible, which – although not part of her actual contract – would include not revealing her own identity)


    14. They would soon, therefore, rival those mercantile nations in this branch of foreign trade, and, in due time, would justle them out of it altogether


    15. The event of that day determined the fate of the two rival republics


    16. But this time he had help from someone he had come to regard as a rival – a man of unparalleled arrogance


    17. Mine was starting to rival his own


    18. There was anger in his eyes to rival his hatred now


    19. “Hello Helen how are you Billy Boy?” Then there stood in front of us was Tommy Smith who you may recall was a one time rival for Helens affection


    20. The military establishment which she maintains for her own defence in time of peace, is more moderate than that of any European state, which can pretend to rival her either in wealth or in power

    21. His eyes drifted over to the far wall where a small section of the display was dedicated to Millicent’s rival


    22. Other newscasters announced sombrely the demise of their rival


    23. I don’t know how he is involved here, except that he might be a rival of my captors, because of his own drug deals


    24. Gangs gathered intelligence on rival gangs


    25. It was King Asibi, Prempeh's rival for the stool, on his way from Accra, where he had been living in exile, to Kumassi; for now he could travel in safety to his native country


    26. A rival gang


    27. Their civil wars in the 1880s and 90s saw both the US and Germany stepping in to aid the two rival factions


    28. He had a very good plan in place now and was focused on getting this mission finished and the Chinese President and his daughter killed in a blood bath that would rival 9/11 or 7/7


    29. "Could have been a rival megacorps, a jilted boss, Naturalist terrorists, who knows! But here I am, my life destroyed, because out there somewhere, two deathbots have got my name


    30. But it was not long before Mia saw her companion as a rival and, more to the point, a food rival

    31. Gordon had fought diligently in the halls of government to win Manuel a bronze plaque, awarded by a grateful nation for heading an investigation that unseated a political rival of Gordon on charges of treason


    32. Was he perhaps a rival of yours for Miss Hamilton’s affections?” asked Breksauer, eyeing Colling cautiously


    33. This great rival to Ramses II’s Egypt contested for control of the Fertile Crescent lands of the Middle East for many centuries before it mysteriously disappeared from the historical record


    34. with stories that rival the heroes of history


    35. Constantine’s conversion to Christianity apparently dates from this time…In 313, Licinius having also disposed of his rival, the two Augusti met at Mediolanum (Milan), where Licinius married Constantine’s half sister, Constantia


    36. Either during Constantine’s time, or sometime historically soon after, they came to rival the rapidly diminishing authority of the Caesars themselves


    37. 1316–1334) and Emperor Louis IV damaged the prestige of both, while the growing luxury of the Roman Curia and its need for finances brought in a system for bestowing clerical office which caused harm for many years…At Rome and Avignon rival pontiffs reigned


    38. He had no rival among the gods his brothers


    39. He had no rival among the gods His brothers


    40. Rondon believed that the internecine conflicts with rival groups were based on previous hostilities and territorial disputes

    41. Julius Caesar defeated the Gauls and his personal rival, Pompey


    42. Doubt and questioning is not a rival, they are a relation of mutual promotion


    43. I had to admit it was the most prudent way of removing a potential rival and almost bloodless


    44. I supposed since he was a cripple, he was not seen by his brother as a potential rival


    45. “Yes, what is poetry but our pathetic attempts to rival nature’s beautiful flowers, streams, mountains, birds, and animals by expressing our thoughts and feelings in words


    46. I told her about my rival for love, Itsuki, and how he was better at school, exorcising, and how I would never stand a chance of gaining the affections of Mana


    47. Later that year, a rival claimant to the throne named Enrique Tudor led a revolt aided by some soldiers from Frantzia


    48. Early Maori history of Dunedin was particularly bloody between three rival tribes that occupied the Otago Peninsula at the beginning of the 19th century


    49. The demonising of rival collective ideologies then began,


    50. Thus, ensuring his rival could not meet Meenu, he felt a sense of triumph













































    1. and scratched but came up short, losing in the ninth to their bitter rivals, the


    2. His industry was paramount to their recent successes in the market and, he decided, if they were unwilling to part with him again so soon, he reconciled himself to beginning fresh with one of their rivals


    3. It is affected, not only by every variation of price in the commodities which he deals in, but by the good or bad fortune both of his rivals and of his customers, and by a thousand other accidents, to which goods, when carried either by sea or by land, or even when stored in a warehouse, are liable


    4. In the long-run, therefore, the operations of this bank increased the real distress of the country, which it meant to relieve ; and effectually relieved, from a very great distress, those rivals whom it meant to supplant


    5. This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away


    6. “Her rivals intervened? Yes, that would be good


    7. This may, no doubt, give encouragement to some particular class of workmen among ourselves, and, by excluding some of their rivals, may enable them to raise their price in the home market


    8. Were the officers of the army to oppose, with the same zeal and unanimity, any reduction in the number of forces, with which master manufacturers set themselves against every law that is likely to increase the number of their rivals in the home market ; were the former to animate their soldiers


    9. The manufacturers of a rich nation, in the same manner, may no doubt be very dangerous rivals to those of their neighbours


    10. By means of them, our merchants and manufacturers, it is pretended, will be enabled to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market

    11. If, in a year of scarcity, therefore, any of them should find that he had a good deal more corn upon hand than, at the current price, he could hope to dispose of before the end of the season, he would never think of keeping up this price to his own loss, and to the sole benefit of his rivals and competitors, but would immediately lower it, in order to get rid of his corn before the new crop began to come in


    12. It is to sell the one as dear, and to buy the other as cheap as possible, and consequently to exclude, as much as possible, all rivals from the particular market where they keep their shop


    13. It was not as if there’d be a shortage of rivals for her affections


    14. Our woollen manufacturers, in order to justify their demand of such extraordinary restrictions and regulations, confidently asserted, that English wool was of a peculiar quality, superior to that of any other country; that the wool of other countries could not, without some mixture of it, be wrought up into any tolerable manufacture; that fine cloth could not be made without it ; that England, therefore, if the exportation of it could be totally prevented, could monopolize to herself almost the whole woollen trade of the world; and thus, having no rivals, could sell at what price she pleased, and in a short time acquire the most incredible degree of wealth by the most advantageous balance of trade


    15. The laudable motive of all these regulations, is to extend our own manufactures, not by their own improvement, but by the depression of those of all our neighbours, and by putting an end, as much as possible, to the troublesome competition of such odious and disagreeable rivals


    16. These our merchants and manufacturers are willing should come as cheap as possible to themselves, and as dear as possible to their rivals and competitors in other countries


    17. And even the women! Yes, even the women, her contemporaries, and at one stage her rivals


    18. Do you realize that Gordon has at his disposal a treasury that rivals Costa Rica’s, and that he uses it in large part to manipulate public opinion to his benefit? Do you really believe that it’s any different in the United States? These men who work for Gordy are no more public enemies than employees of Exxon – and in my opinion, less so


    19. Constantine had reunited the Roman world after defeating his rivals, with the help, he claimed, of the Christian God


    20. Rivals, maybe, but how could that be, if Eric is a leader and Four is not?

    21. respect his elders and this had given him a great advantage over his rivals


    22. The Sylvan say that when the Dragon Lord first took over, he had to beat some of his rivals dozens of times before they finally caught on that they just couldn’t kill him, or even put a scratch on him! And he never killed one of them, though they came at him by the thousands with blood in their eye, Sylvan and dragons too


    23. in the same noisy time intervals that my rivals were working in,


    24. Mother and daughter become rivals for the love of the same man


    25. His estate rivals that of the Akira Family, not counting government property under the Royal Family's control


    26. and America as children of the mother Europe, and see them as rivals who are


    27. What will the two rivals choose as a final solution?


    28. He will show his rivals a thing or two


    29. “She has a guardsman whose tool rivals that of his horse


    30. I mean he has gotten into scuffles, had quiet rivals, but nobody at least to my knowledge wanted to do him official harm

    31. The two offices have been bitter rivals for years because of sometimes overlapping jurisdictions


    32. Marza Deepoon Lain rivals every-1, in her own mind


    33. The demands of your career are therefore strong and you are fending off competitors and rivals


    34. This featured the national teams of South Korea and Russia – absolutely perfect! – two of their bitterest rivals would have their National Soccer teams destroyed, and China would be held responsible!…he loved nothing more than being able to stir and cook up hatred!…He would ensure that the Chinese Embassy was given complimentary tickets to the game…thinking, not fondly… of the Ambassador Wa Dawung and his “so-called” diplomatic staff…


    35. He had stood in the high places so long, and had ground so many foes underfoot, that he unconsciously assumed himself to be above the machinations of inferior rivals


    36. To what a state I have fallen! My old-time peers and rivals would stare indeed could they see Thoth-amon of the Ring serving as the slave of an outlander, and an outlaw at that; and aiding in the petty ambitions of barons and kings!"


    37. In good faith he had ridden into Ophir, and had been confronted by the supposed rivals allied against him


    38. Terry took his chance and pulled out a long screwdriver and buried it in one of the rivals back


    39. That was the tail end of my time in the weed business and I headed to prison as a result of taking out our rivals in Mawson years earlier


    40. battlefield, brokered a treaty between the warlords and an uneasy peace was forced on the rivals

    41. His creepiness rivals this tomb


    42. "virtual John Henry of computer code," author Steven Levy notes that many of his Symbolics-employed rivals had no


    43. “Why, D? Sir Richard and Forrest are corporate rivals


    44. � I simply want you to have confidence in my military abilities, so that we could execute the next mission together as a team, not as rivals


    45. surrounding territory that comprised Sumerian city-states occasionally waged war with each other but remained largely independent for centuries until Lugalzaggisi, the king of Umma, conquered his rivals and unified Sumer


    46. above all rivals as modem history's greatest demon


    47. That last night we met up with our CBC rivals who were staying in the


    48. We had beaten our rivals and would be


    49. rivals to win the


    50. “It is a mythical world that rivals the Chronicles of Narnia written by C













































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