I've spent my whole life competing with my Italian mother".
Since God cared about every aspect of life, competing groups and leaders often saw themselves as representing the side of God against his adversaries.
It's more like a narrative multiverse, in which different versions of Ursula's life compete for the reader's attention and keep a conventionally one-note story well out of reach.
"At Celtic Football Club and at Aston Villa Football Club I was privileged to live a life competing at a high level and playing the game I love, supported by the most passionate fans.
Martina Navratilova could give up her family trips, vacation getaways and the time she spends training her puppy in exchange for a life competing on the Tour at age 45 -- if only she wanted to.
In France he worked for Le Figaro Littéraire, and there were constant commissions from the US, where the fine glossy magazine Holiday and Henry Luce's Life competed for his work.
This is a sport where those who rely on a wheelchair in everyday life compete against those who never sit in one other than to compete, with the chair reduced entirely to the level of a piece of equipment, a static base from which the fencer addresses his opponent.
Initially, it was the determination of Afro-Caribbeans to be part of the mainstream of British life, competing with whites for blue-collar jobs, council houses and, increasingly, for sexual partners that made them unpopular; these days it has helped them to become accepted.
