War reflected the wider European rivalries that made Italy a prize for plunder and a defensive bulwark against the Ottoman Turks, that led to the explorations and conquests of the New World and to new contacts with Asia, and that erupted into open divisions over religious belief.
Street said that the issue was wider than any rivalry between Amazon, the online retailer that was heavily criticised on Monday by MPs examining tax avoidance schemes, and John Lewis.
Winding the story into his theme, Steiner suggests that Judas may have been jealous of other disciples, closer to the Master, and thereby evokes the wider theme of rivalry between disciples.
K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat appears to have taken advantage of wider political rivalries and allied himself with Calakmul, the sworn enemy of Tikal.
The Rack Pack places the rivalry in its wider context of the vibrant Seventies and Eighties snooker scene, when Chas & Dave reached number six in the charts with "Snooker Loopy", featuring Davis and other famous players on backing vocals.
As worrying as the activities of the hard-core firms, who tend to cause most of their trouble in pre-arranged clashes away from the immediate vicinity of football grounds, has been the spread of tribal rivalry among the wider world of football fans.
The Yankees and Mets rivalry is a classic city-wide battle, and since 2009, Yankee Stadium and Citi Field have been conjuring up stadium beef (no pun intended).
The move of Brisbane assistant coach Craig Bellamy to Melbourne has also been attributed to fueling the rivalry, as well as the wide spread of Queensland Origin players across their squads in the better part of the past decade.
While the loyalist groups are all part of the Protestant movement that wants Northern Ireland to remain a part of Britain, there is a wide perception that the rivalries are fueled by a battle for Belfast's illicit drug traffic.
Iraq's Pandora Box of ethnic and religious rivalries remains wide open and a more powerful and assertive Iran and its Shiite allies there (and in Lebanon) are perceived as posing a major threat to the interests of the mostly unstable Arab-Sunni regimes in the region (Saudi Arabia; Jordan; Egypt).
Indeed this new Melbourne rivalry has been a microcosm of a wider dilemma facing the relationship between the A-League and the W-League.
