But equally perilous rivalries seem renascent in the fundamental contest of the euro crisis between (German-led) proponents of hard work and austerity and those who plead for less individual pain.
Initially he improved relations with the Soviets, believing that closer ties would restore balance to Canada's international position and deemphasize Canada's role as a partisan of the West, but Trudeau did not contest fundamental U.S. policy regarding the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and even American involvement in the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
RHP may consist of the fundamental ability of contestants, such as physical strength ('fighting ability'), modified by further influences on contest ability, for example, positional advantages and prior-ownership.
He said, the people behind the release were "agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human-caused climate change.
The debate has emerged as so consequential, in fact, that operatives for Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush said they had suspended many important strategic decisions, at least until Wednesday, so they could gauge whether the fundamental dynamics of the contest have been shifted.
Like the American civil war, the state of undeclared hostility between the US and the Soviet Union from 1945 to the late 1980s was "a necessary contest that settled fundamental issues once and for all".
In classes on political parties and the presidential selection process, they weighed whether 2008's contest could bring a fundamental shift in the American political debate.
Thus, we are brought back to Galeano's magic galleon and Mulford's beauty contest, and to the fundamental point that resource scarcities in the context of health policy must always be understood with reference to their origins in political choices and macro-scale social and economic processes.
It likely reflects the diminished importance that voters are placing on a purely symbolic contest, rather than anything more fundamental.
That contest was determined by the fundamental politics (rejection of the Bush legacy, the charm of Mr Obama), as November's will be (the jobless "recovery", disappointment with Mr Obama).
