Gross rivalry diverts you,

Gross rivalry diverts you,

Rivalry and vainglory distracted you

Rivalry and vainglory distracted you

Rivalry in worldly increase distracteth you

Rivalry in worldly increase distracteth you

The mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you,

The mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you,

. So they've got a little bit of a sibling rivalry thing going on here.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself

The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more serious things),

The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more serious things),

It is also why there exists an organic connection of India to Central Asia, the key to that link lying in the Himalayas, which is where the India China rivalry is currently focused. Fortunately, at least for the present, this rivalry is far less emotional than India Pakistan relations, having not been born of historical grievances.

Appointing a group of focal points instead of one focal point may diminish the institutional rivalry that so frequently manifests itself in our work.

Moreover, there is a lack of coordination between the State Union authorities and the two Republics' Governments, and the rivalry between the involved agencies is palpable.

I still have an uncle, aunt, and cousins in Brussels. During the US Belgium match, emails flew fast and thick across the family network, with lots of friendly rivalry.

So NATO expansion has left the Cold War unfinished. The ideological and military confrontation that underlay it is gone, but the geopolitical rivalry that it entailed has returned to the fore.

In short, striking a balance between the impulse toward rivalry and incentives encouraging restraint is the most important dynamic in contemporary international affairs. And, for now, the global balance is tipping toward restraint.

MADRID The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back. As a result, the international community s capacity to unite in the face of major global challenges remains as deficient as ever.

India appears to be equally hopeful. Indeed, a senior Indian official,speaking about tensions in the South China Sea, was recently quoted as saying You can t assume that India China maritime rivalry is inevitable.

Saudi Arabia is in a violent struggle with Iran for regional supremacy, with geopolitical competition converging with the Sunni Shia rivalry. Israel, the Middle East s only nuclear power, wants to retain its strategic monopoly.

The frequent description of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as harboring neo Ottoman ambitions for his country clearly implicates this rivalry. It was the Ottomans who brought down two historical Saudi Wahhabi states.

Somalia s internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry. Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.

Far from helping to turn the page on old disputes, this commerce has been accompanied by greater Sino Indian geopolitical rivalry and military tension. Booming bilateral trade is no guarantee of moderation between countries.

MOGADISHU Somalia s internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry. Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.

But, while Japan s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades. And recent events suggest that China knows it.

And We gave them precise rulings. They fell into dispute only after knowledge came to them, out of mutual rivalry. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding the things they differed about.

And We gave them precise rulings. They fell into dispute only after knowledge came to them, out of mutual rivalry. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding the things they differed about.

The Holy See thus favours the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission, which could lay out an ambitious strategy for overcoming the factors of ethnic rivalry which are the root cause of conflicts and can always reignite them.

Few are willing to accept that Syria s President Bashar al Assad, despite his abominable record, now almost certainly must be part of the solution. And the open sore of the Israel Palestine conflict plays into every other rivalry.

And gave them plain commandments. And they differed not until after the knowledge came unto them, through rivalry among themselves. Lo! thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ.

And gave them plain commandments. And they differed not until after the knowledge came unto them, through rivalry among themselves. Lo! thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ.

Outsiders watching these shifts, and the Pakistani government s handling of them, have been unable to discern a consistent pattern that would explain Pakistani policy. But here, regional politics must be taken into account, especially the continuing rivalry between India and Pakistan.

Fifty years later, tensions between India and China are rising again amid an intense geopolitical rivalry. Their entire 4,057 kilometer border one of the longest in the world remains in dispute, without a clearly defined line of control in the Himalayas.

We gave them clear arguments in matters of religion . It was only after knowledge came to them that they differed among themselves out of mutual rivalry. On the Day of Resurrection your Lord will judge between them regarding their differences.

We gave them clear arguments in matters of religion . It was only after knowledge came to them that they differed among themselves out of mutual rivalry. On the Day of Resurrection your Lord will judge between them regarding their differences.

Is it naive to believe that the world amounts to more than zero sum thinking? Can Europe promote fair play in international affairs, or must it accept a new game of great power rivalry as inevitable and throw itself into the fray?

The design of optimal regulation has to take into account the intensity of competition in the different banking segments. For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.

In the stable British model, if a political party is too radical, it will lose the political center in the next election. The parties rivalry is healthy, though there is a built in tendency to seek solutions that command a broad social consensus.

So the real issue is not whether the noises that Putin and Medvedev make suggest real divergence, and a potential for rivalry, but whether there is daylight at the end of the tandem. Or, to put it differently, whether they choose modernization or marginalization.

The only true religion in God's sight is complete submission to God. And those who were given the Book disagreed only out of rivalry, after knowledge had been given to them he who denies God's signs should know that God is swift in His reckoning.

The only true religion in God's sight is complete submission to God. And those who were given the Book disagreed only out of rivalry, after knowledge had been given to them he who denies God's signs should know that God is swift in His reckoning.

Qatar s growing influence has important implications for the balance of power in the Arab World, especially with regard to the country s rivalry with Saudi Arabia. This competitive dynamic, which surfaced only recently, represents a shift from a long history of working in tandem to export Islamist extremism.

Against this background, efforts to tame the deep seated Sunni Shia rivalry (by, for example, improving relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran), though undoubtedly important, should not take priority over a strategy to address the sectarianism plaguing the Sunni belt. That strategy must center on federalism.