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So they've got a little bit of a sibling rivalry thing going on here.
China and the U.S., despite the recent meta-meeting in California, are locked in all kinds of anger, resentment, and rivalry for number one.
Now, rivalry has to be replaced by social capital.
The rest of the family immediately descended into sibling rivalry.
Can connectivity overcome the patterns of rivalry among the great powers of the Far East?
China and Japan have an even longer history of rivalry and have been deploying their air forces and navies to show their strength in island disputes.
For perspective on what we're now seeing in this rivalry, it's useful to locate it on the larger map of history.
Or can we, through a combination of imagination and common sense and courage find a way to manage this rivalry without a war nobody wants, and everybody knows would be catastrophic?
But because it's about ethnic rivalry, one of four topics guaranteed to be a success in Australian cinema (along with struggling families, minority groups, and the biography of a famous Australian) it won multiple academy awards.
I would have liked to have seen a little acknowledgment about the cross town rivalry of the big game in town every year, OHS vs Permian.
I couldn't keep up with the five million stories here: Billy Baldwin becoming a fire man, the random sibling rivalry, the random love story(s), the who's being an arson story, the investigator, the fire who has a personality of it's own.
The show addressed many topics from racism, intra-race discrimination, teen pregnancy, sibling rivalry, single parenting, peer-pressure and much more.
This is a masterful piece of film-making, with many themes simmering and occasionally boiling over in this warts and all study of the poet's bohemian, self-indulgent wartime years that span the aerial bombardments of London and the outward tranquillity of a Welsh coastal retreat - the borderlines between friendship, lust and love, dedication to art and experience versus practical concerns, jealousy, rivalry, cowardice and egotism versus heroism and self-sacrifice and more.
I recently watched this in a class in which few of the students were interested in hockey, but nearly everyone knew about Maurice Richard and the Toronto/Montreal rivalry.
It concerns the rivalry between two funeral directors in a small British town.
If you have any love of flying at all, especially an attachment to the planes of WWII, this is an absolute must see, vastly superior to the pathetic "Pearl Harbor" and up there in rivalry with the famed "Battle of Britain" filmed more than thirty years ago.
I found this a very enjoyable light hearted comedy set in Wales with some truly funny sequences highlighting the rivalry between two funeral directors.
Two other story lines - the planned move of the woman's elderly father with his young wife to Guernsey and the rivalry with the woman's sister - do not offer any interesting developments.
Of course Fred (Vince Vaughn) is the family screw up who comes home after a series of set backs that include his girlfriend (Rachel Weisz in a cameo role) dumping him, so he comes home to face his parents and his more successful brother Santa Claus (Paul Giamatti) and wacky high jinks follow with a bit of sibling rivalry and a bit of anarky as well that threatens all of Christmas.
And the rivalry between the Dandy Warhols and Jonestown has been milked.
All the ingredients are here: old jelousy, rivalry, friendship and loyalty.
The tighter the drama, the better the film of sister rivalry!
In Brooklyn a century ago, the rivalry between Chuck Connors and Steve Brodie and their competing volunteer fire brigades leads to Brodie's famous bet that he can jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
After the death of their father, the two are brought together after a long absence and the usual sibling rivalry resurfaces.
While being a simple tale of rivalry between two brothers, it was not simply about hate or jealousy.
The film, for a small country as Portugal, without great antecedents in great films, is a very good and funny comedy, showing all the rivalry that exists between North/South of Portugal (FC Porto/Benfica).
Cut off from the outside world, the women entertain each other by telling stories about intrigue, rivalry and jealousies within their ranks.
The sisters' close bond is fractured severely by the rivalry that erupts, which only deepens when Court dies in a tragic accident.
High energy Raoul Walsh classic from 1933, The Bowery places saloon owner and operator Wallace Beery against bitter rival and dandy, George Raft, with adopted street kid Jackie Cooper and good looking Faye Wray in roles that play in between their big rivalry.
It's not clear exactly what the rivalry is all about, but everyone follows it in the daily tabloids.
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