Territorial rivalry between Innocent's family and the Orsini family led to rioting and finally open warfare in the streets of Rome in 1204, during which siege machines destroyed many ancient buildings.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said last year that the United States had a "national interest" in the South China Sea and could facilitate talks, worrying China that it was going to step into the territorial rivalry.
Theirs was a "mafia culture created by decades of paramilitary conflict".It is certainly true that territorial rivalry, and competition to control assorted criminal activities play a large part in this loyalist feud.
China claims most of the South China Sea and has territorial rivalries there with several south-east Asian states.
The $265 million deal, signed at the end of a two-day meeting of European Union energy ministers, is another move by both nations to focus on economic cooperation and set aside territorial rivalries that have brought them close to war three times in the past three decades.
According to the event's symbolic map above, territorial rivalries have begun to manifest in the technology world — as have areas of conflict.
In contrast to Beijing's fierce denunciations of Japan, the Philippines or Vietnam over territorial rivalries in the East and South China Sea, its tone is relatively mild on India and a dispute it describes as being "left over from history".
Competitive music and dance was a part of African American street gang culture, and with the success of some local groups, pressure mounted, leading to territorial rivalries among performers.
There are long histories of territorial rivalries, power struggles, and, within current evidence-based medicine, disagreements over what constitutes legitimate evidence [ 21].
Then, naturally, things begin to go wrong, as Adams expands the plot to introduce territorial disputes, political rivalry and corruption.
Like the conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, the argument combines religious rivalry, territorial dispute and historical grievance a poisonous mixture that tends to make would-be peacemakers give up in despair.
