According to both Abkhazians and Georgians reached by telephone, both sides have organized rival mass meetings in recent weeks in various towns in Abkhazia.
Kandinsky was an active animator of the avant-garde movement in Munich, helping to found in 1909 the New Artists AssociationNeueeue Künstlervereinigung). Following a disagreement within this group, he and the German painter Franz Marc founded in 1911 an informally organized rival group, which took the name Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), from the title of one of Kandinsky's 1903 pictures.
In both instances India, together with Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic Egyptt), succeeded in organizing rival conferences of nonaligned states that refused to take the strong anti-Western positions urged by China and, in 1964 65, by Indonesia.
But such reveries are often interrupted these days by the more ambiguous realities of democratic Poland, where former Solidarity colleagues are organizing rival political parties for the national elections.
Haftar's ragtag forces are better organized than rivals and easily took over the south, including the biggest oilfield Sharara, through negotiations rather than fighting.
The New York Daily News reported in 2013 that "Mexican drug cartels are recruiting American soldiers to act as clandestine hit men in the United States, paying them thousands of dollars to assassinate federal informants and organized crime rivals".
Originally intended as a one-time event, Mr. Morley renamed it the Miss World contest and turned it into an annual competition the next year, after American television organized the rival Miss Universe contest.
The project is extraordinary because it was organized by rival museums, the Palace Museum of Beijing and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, each of which claims to be the rightful home of the artifacts.
Pozarevac authorities organized a rival event to commemorate World War II Victory Day, and opposition officials said the move could have led to clashes between supporters and foes of the government.
The Chinese government has warned darkly of "chaos," while its media have said the mild-mannered trio and their supporters risk becoming an "enemy of the state". Hong Kong's business elite are so alarmed at the possibility of unrest that they have organized a rival movement.
Mr. Romney took that advice in 2007, spending more than $1 million to out-organize his rivals and win the straw poll.
