He went to a Christian boys school where in a class debate about whether being gay was a choice a rival debater said it was to be "indie and alternative".
The party, worried about the spread of a rival ideology, faces a difficult choice: by keeping house churches small, it ensures that no one church is large enough to threaten the local party chief.
Neither would probably be the other's first choice as a rival; both would no doubt prefer to run against someone less skilled in blurring ideological lines.
For example, a report last year by America's National Bureau of Economic Research found that increased competition in health care was correlated with improved financial and clinical outcomes; adding a rival hospital and instigating patient choice substantially increases the quality of management.
Germany would be reluctant to step aside, and fellow Europeans would be reluctant to openly challenge the German choice, unless a rival who clearly outranks Mr. Koch-Weser -- like a seasoned central banker, a finance minister or a prime minister -- threw his or her hat into the ring.
When Bates's presidential bid failed, the triumphant Lincoln offered his erstwhile rival a choice of Cabinet positions.
We find that when players have full information on their rivals' choices, the imitation rule prevails, and such learning behaviour induces more competitive outcomes in the Cournot market designs.
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To this challenger it seems a little unfair, not to mention a touch hypocritical, for professional, lifetime politicians to attack Sheldon and Miriam Adelson who have done a service in giving the people of the ninth district of New Jersey what they surely deserve: a real campaign and a choice between rival candidates and political visions, which form the very fabric of American democracy.
What's more, having secured 38% of the vote in the first round, he needed to do deals to make himself - and not his rival - the choice for the other 18 candidates who couldn't make it to the run-off.
(About 75percentt of Camry buyers choose a four-cylinder engine, a choice that rivals from the Big Three do not even offer).
