There is no reason the story of David and Goliath should have involved David and Goliath.
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This possibly may be a David and Goliath story in the making.
In the end, perceived success may be a David and Goliath fight, but I will side with quality over quantity every time.
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"Today it was David and Goliath, " Wigan manager Roberto Martinez said.
Burza's worldwide legion of fans includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Japanese emperors, and several New York chefs - an apropos marriage between the David and Goliath of world culinary capitals.
The David and Goliath scenario has featured heavily in the press, with leaked internal e-mails from Google providing a neat insight into how the search giant views competitors.
In the Biblical story of David and Goliath, David initially put on a coat of mail and a brass helmet and girded himself with a sword: he prepared to wage a conventional battle of swords against Goliath.
The David-and-Goliath angle is about the biggest clich going in entrepreneurship, but it sometimes works.
"It was kind of a David-and-Goliath situation, " recalls Mark Sweeney, a director at pipeline Sempra Energy, who negotiated with Aerie.
But it seems fairly clear that if Boxee is David and Apple is Goliath in this scenario, David is still missing a couple of stones in its arsenal.
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"It was kind of a David-and-Goliath situation, " recalls Mark Sweeney , a director at pipeline Sempra Energy (nyse: SRE - news - people), who negotiated with Aerie.
The appeal of the David-and-Goliath plot is intensified by solid dramatic carpentry, and by the fluent back-and-forth between live and archive in the heat of street battles and mass demonstrations, you can't tell if you're watching simulations or the real heart-pounding thing.
"It was David goes against Goliath, and this time David forgot to put the rock in his sling, " Huckabee said.
Only in this version, David has a domain name instead of a slingshot and Goliath is wearing pegged jeans and a bedazzled fedora.
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The meaning of the holiday changed over time, becoming a David versus Goliath tale among Mexican immigrants in the 1930s and embodying U.S.-Mexico unity during World War II and Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Hayes-Bautista said.
Goliath and, pebble in hand, now David is talking to the press.
Goliath huffs and puffs and prepares to squash David.com as if it were a bug, planning to destroy it with reach and power and weight.
David can beat Goliath by substituting effort for ability and substituting effort for ability turns out to be a winning formula for underdogs in all walks of life, including little blond-haired girls on the basketball court.
Now some people question whether or not the state law like this would supersede a federal bankruptcy court and, you know, that's kind of a David versus Goliath situation.
The NCAA Tournament's greatest appeal is its buffet of David versus Goliath matchups, in which colleges of polar-opposite basketball pedigree and academic tradition meet on the hardwood floor.
But I'm a believer in state's rights and I would remind people though that David did win when he went up against Goliath.
And Livingstone led a highly professional campaign to stop her, turning himself from a leader pilloried by the media, and unpopular with the public, to a folk hero, a David pitted against Goliath.
And yet foundations are pumping 95% into Goliath year after year while giving David a little 5% slingshot.
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"In the Valley of Elah" -- the name comes from the locale of David's battle against Goliath -- is not a great film, but its acute sense of anguish and betrayal may resonate in the same way that 1978's "The Deer Hunter" did 30 years ago.
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