They provided forms of sociality, points of intersection where dispersed populations mingled, forums in which rival strategies and tendencies could be contested, and vehicles through which they could be pursued.
The appeal is partly educational, a chance for mortal talents to learn the tricks of the trade (or for rival professionals to scout tendencies and tactics).
Different factions and tendencies produced rival resolutions and protests, which gave their names to the two major parties as the Resolutioners, who were willing to make an accommodation with royalism, and the more hard line Protesters who wished to purge the Kirk of such associations.
Different factions and tendencies produced rival resolutions and protests, which gave their names to the two major parties as Resolutioners, who were willing to make an accommodation with royalism, and more hard line Protesters who wished to purge the Kirk of such associations.
This plays on the tendency of rival schools of ancient Chinese moralists to treat tiannature:sky as the authority for their favored human daos.
As for saving legislators "from their worst instincts," Davis agrees with his former rival Schwarzenegger that the tendency to spend all available revenues on expanded programs and tax cuts is best dealt with by establishing state spending limits and a rainy day fund.
In this species, it is possible that males lack the sensory apparatus to detect the chemical signature of a single rival or perhaps the tendency of males to repeatedly mate with the same female is sufficient to dilute or displace the sperm of a single rival male and therefore a single competing ejaculate does not constitute a "risk".
As the investigation and attendant scandal over the flagrant killing of a renowned journalist unfolded, the world saw one Middle Eastern country with authoritarian tendencies dominate a rival neighbor in a cloak and dagger game of spy-craft.
OBAMA INSIDERS TEND TO SHUDDER at any parallels to George W. Bush, but many reporters and rivals have noted the "Bush-like" tendencies the Obama campaign demonstrated in its ability to control information.
In particular, Nuri al-Maliki, the tough Shia Muslim who has been prime minister since 2006, shows increasingly authoritarian, sectarian and democracy-sapping tendencies, ruthlessly ousting or outmanoeuvring rivals, and using underhand methods to impose his will.
