Contrary to general opinion, demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance.
At the culmination of the War of the Spanish Succession, at the Treaties of Utrecht and Rattstatt, Cosimo did not vie for international assurances for the Electress's succession.
These three campaigns do not vie with editorial fashion for attention; in fact, editorial fashion has taken to emulating its once barely tolerated money-grubbing ugly sister--a reversal of the positions of advertising and editorial "content" which couldn't have been imagined fifteen years ago.
It did not win, and vied for attention during Oscar weekend with the advertising blitz for "Act of Valor", a drama starring active-duty Navy SEALs.
Like it or not, there is an increasingly important hurdle for the candidates vying to be mayor of New York City, and it does not always have them cooing: a working knowledge of Spanish, or at least a well-honed ability to fake it.
It doesn't have to, Ms. Churchill said, because so many competitors are vying for the right to sell new Hummers.
It doesn't hurt that Linus Roache is as beautiful to look at as the very different women (one worldly, one virginal) vying for his attention.
Predictably, it didn't take long for the knockoffs to descend on the scene, each vying for a piece of Street Fighter II's success.
Predictably, it didn't take long for the knock-offs to descend on the scene, each vying for a piece of Street Fighter II's success.
Students who don't require aid are not vying for the same limited resources.
