Word: rivalled
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That all changed on Saturday when Harvard (2-5-0, 1-0 Ivy) faced Ancient Eight rival Penn (3-2-2, 1-0 Ivy) at home to start the Ivy League season. While the Quakers scored first and last, at the 12- and 70-minute marks respectively, Harvard took the middle by charge, burying three shots in the net to beat Penn...
...other foraging skills while singing hymns or praying to a pantheon of beatified scientists (Dian Fossey, Rachel Carson, Euell Gibbons). As a result, they are also more boring. Even with intra-cult intrigue, and Atwood’s skillfully crafted futuristic sermons, the Gardeners simply don’t rival the garish inhabitants of the Pleeblands. Even Ren complains of her lackluster surroundings. “The street kids—the pleebrats—were hardly rich, but they were glittery… I envied their gaudy freedom.”Atwood is better at inventing things than...
...problem is, it didn't quite do that. Winning the 2007 Pan American Games was considered a big, if sometimes chaotic, success for Rio. To triumph over rival bidder San Antonio, officials used the same argument - that this was Rio's turn. To back that up, they promised to transform the city with a new ring road system, something called a "via light" railway (presumably a light railway), a new state highway and 54 km of new metro lines...
...analyze the situation and compare things with one another and finally make up their own minds, but at the end of the day such statements really do not help restore America's image. I mean I don't know, maybe the US government sees itself as our competitor and rival, perhaps we should welcome these statements, but frankly at the end of the day, we want to have a friendly world. We think that these policies have already not succeeded and cannot help create friendships in the world...
...people responsible for Clearstream "hanging from a butcher's hook." That's one reason he became a civil party to the case. Another may well be his belief that a guilty verdict for de Villepin could be the only way to rid himself of the one conservative rival who has ceaselessly criticized his record as President...