The two companies are fierce rivals, competing in a number of different markets, including phones and televisions.
And the easy bonhomie that was Hawaiian surfing's public face has been supplanted by something more ugly and fierce, with surfers competing not just for prize money but for territorial rights to an increasingly crowded sea.
Since he assumed his role in February 2011, the board has become ground zero for a fierce clash between competing visions for higher education in Texas, including two of Mr. Perry's pet issues: how much degrees should cost, and how university faculty members should balance teaching and academic research.
Changes in federal rules usually emerge, when they do, from fierce struggles among competing interest groups that rage behind the high-flown verbiage of public occasions.
Earlier this month, Didi announced that it is taking over Uber's China unit and forming a new company; the two decided to end a fierce war after competing head-on for years.
All summer, Amazon and Barnes & Noble have been locked in a fierce battle over their competing e-reader devices.
People say these two cities, united by the wide, muddy-blue Rhine, are fierce opponents, divided by competing Carnivals, sports, money, politics and beer.
This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors' African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.
It takes me a few beats to realize that she's talking about the newbies competing in a fierce dance-off next door.
Local troupes battle each other with a fierce, highly athletic style of dancing, competing for ultimate supremacy.
