Former rivalries must be left behind to embrace new and long-lasting cooperation frameworks.
Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
The world champion will renew her old rivalry with the former world No1 Marianne Vos at the Women's Tour, in June; with the Dutchwoman absent on Saturday, the opposition looks set to come from sprinters such as Lucy Garner and Floortje Mackaj and seasoned campaigners such as Kirsten Wild, Tatiana Guderzo and Marta Bastianelli.
The former bitter rivalries and divisions have begun to fade.
International games echo former warlike rivalries, Holland against Germany, Poland against Russia, England against France.
Perhaps it's a local derby, perhaps it's a long-running feud, perhaps it's a manager returning to a former club: rivalries form the meat of what it means to be a football fan.
The Beatles broke up in 1969 an exhausted, fractured and embittered group of former friends, rivalries and resentments having torn apart the most brilliant and famous musical partnership of the 20th century.
Is linked to Mr. Obama by: A former, though brief, rivalry in the 2008 presidential campaign.
A15 Antiterror Agencies Fumble A year after a sweeping government reorganization began, the agencies charged with protecting the United States against terrorist attack remain troubled by high-level turnover, overlapping responsibilities and bureaucratic rivalry, former and current officials say.
Such ceremonies often bring together current and former presidents with rivalries, grudges or awkward relationships.
