No level of international pressure is going to eliminate the core business rivalries between elites from the Tutsi, Nande and Mushi ethnic groups, just to mention three of most prominent.
But if the US and China drift towards more open competition, the core of that rivalry will be who has better friends, and everyone in the region will have to make hard choices.
So he is hard-core about musicians' rivalries.
But at the core of this story of rivalry between former collaborators was a problem that still plagues the start-ups in the Cambridge "technology cluster", namely how to make the transition from being a small team of bright people to being a global company.
The Strindbergian drama of the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan rivalry is at the core of Susan Orlean's "Figures in a Mall," from 1994.
Despite its foibles, the LOI has a core group of supporters who treat rivalries, like the 97-year-old Dublin Derby a matchup of crosstown foes Rovers and Bohemian as part of a holy trinity alongside church and dry stout.
What is at stake in the conflict over Israel and Palestine are land and sovereignty — the traditional core issues of colonial and anti-colonial rivalry — not theology.
The area where this rivalry is most obvious (outside of the core cloud computing services) is in machine learning.
"Party political strife cannot justify overriding core democratic principles," Mr. Barroso said, an allusion to the bitter rivalry between Mr. Ponta, who leads a center-left coalition, and the center-right president.
That Australia and England share a long, often fun, often fraught sporting rivalry has been well documented, and it remains at the core of Australian-Great British Olympic enmity.
