Both men have taken the sport to a new level with their record goalscoring feats -- Ronaldo has scored an astonishing 164 times in 160 appearances for the Spanish champions, while Messi hit 50 in La Liga alone last term.
But if they have any hope of emulating such feats -- or, more precisely, of deterring the Russians from threatening them in the first place by making it clear that they could emulate such feats -- today's Eastern Europeans have to do much more to prepare a robust defense.
The Citroen driver, who won the event for the fourth time last year, dominated the four-day race from the start to eclipse the feats of four-time victors Sandro Munari, Walter Rohrl and Tommi Makinen.
What is happening in Pune is more sophisticated than epic feats of metal-bashing.
The nation risks losing its space and technological supremacy if it allows other countries to achieve feats like sample-return first, he said.
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The world urgently needs a pop geologist, and Winchester fills the bill--literally, since he inserts himself into Krakatoa as a recurring character, a geological Indiana Jones given to occasional feats of derring-do.
Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
Those efforts can result in awe-inspiring feats, but as action sports stars continually fly higher, so does the chance for disaster.
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The works were enriched by the rubber-limbed and fluid-jointed feats of articulation that distinguish jookin', but each had moments of feeling forced.
Orlean describes the extra-canine feats that Duncan would train Rinty to perform as indelibly connected to a relationship of mutual respect between dog and man.
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Although swimmers and sprinters face no resistance beyond water and air, peak-performance feats in other sports must face strong defenses, which only improve as each sport gains sophistication.
We also showcased several feats of futuristic architecture -- a skyscraper zoo with a built-in ferris wheel and a shape-shifting solar bridge that purifies the air.
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Cardiff City manager Dave Jones also hailed McCormack's goal-scoring feats.
However co-boss Sheridan, who as a player with Barnsley helped pull off giant-killing feats on both Liverpool and Manchester United, believes Barrow can upset the form book against Graham Westley's outfit.
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One of the most troubling characteristics of those who make a living doing arms control and other feats of diplomatic derring-do is their tendency to dissemble about the true nature of things.
The evening show, inspired by the dark and twisted fairytales of the brothers Grimm, is a 45-minute, adrenaline-raising performance with a lot of knife throwing, motorcycle stunts and daredevil high-wire feats to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Engage allows users to view and upload trips to Trip Viewer, where they can review and re-live their feats.
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There are other remarkable feats accomplished by these lesser-known types of stem cells.
Their successes were huge -- involving such feats as fighting back against salacious rumors of affairs and charges of buying an election, fending off a huge battle against big labor and riding the Tea Party Express to victory.
The performance of those six auto-bots marks a new height in humanless feats: Though Stanford's autonomous Touareg "Stanley" won a 132-mile unmanned sprint across the Mojave Desert in 2005, that event's bots merely had to stay on the road.
When the academic piece is a non-issue and noteworthy feats are the norm, what sets some apart?
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It is sad because we want to know that our sports heroes accomplished their feats by doing it with God-given talents.
Such feats were not enough for Dai-majin, who got his nickname from an old Japanese film in which a "great genie" protects a village from its enemies.
Benin kings, or "obas, " often kept artists at the royal palace to create brass-cast artworks heralding their feats in trade and war.
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Masked chimney-sweeps climb houses in feats of bravery, witches shout at the audience accompanied by a band playing dissonant melodies, and white or brown bears demonstrate their strength.
In a culture that encourages the constant search for the limits of human achievement, we, the fans, the consumers of popular sports entertainment, revel in record-breaking, gravity-defying, barely believable feats on the field of play.
Both Kumbh Melas I saw were remarkable feats of organisation, occasions when the much-maligned Indian civil servants covered themselves with glory.
His remarkable feats have not gone unnoticed by the world -- Nadav has held meetings with Google executives and has been invited to speak about mobile applications and the internet at some of the biggest technology events in the continent, including the Tech4Africa conference.
Among her adult feats, she was able to multiply two random 13-digit numbers in a few seconds.
It is unclear where the idea for the sky-diving Easter Bunny originated, but such feats seem to be multiplying.
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