Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dartmouth’s] been a rival for years,” senior tri-captain Jenny Brine said. “Talk about an Ivy League game, and our last chance before Christmas to prove that we’re the team that can win big games...
Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10, Flores’ principal rival, emphasized the seriousness of the violation. “We feel that all Harvard students should have the chance to recast their ballot with this new information at hand as it calls into question the integrity of the Flores/McLeod ticket and their ability to competently and ethically run the Undergraduate Council...
...Lavoie said. “They really got us pumped up and excited.” Harvard was especially thirsty for a win this weekend, coming off of a split in last weekend’s doubleheader. After defeating Western Ontario 7-2, the team lost to Ancient Eight rival Cornell 6-3. “We were really fired up going into the match,” Lavoie said. “We knew it was going to be close, and coming off the Cornell loss, we really wanted a victory.” Though the Crimson regained momentum...
...bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance like a biblical plague. It inculcates its devotees with a fanatical certainty in the verity of its dogma and the simultaneous disdain for all alternative dogma. Of the great religions, only Christianity and Islam can rival the enthusiasm of its proselytizing efforts...
...voters will cast their ballots in the nation's first general election in seven years. The polls have been a focal point of the country's politics ever since a military intervention in January 2007, which postponed scheduled elections in order to end escalating violence between followers of two rival political parties. In the interim, a caretaker regime of technocrats has set about trying to tackle Bangladesh's wretched record of corruption and reform its volatile electoral politics. Results have been mixed, but the government now looks ready to deliver on its promises for free and credible polls - an effort...