That leaves conflicts that rage in weak and failing states (as in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan), or in ungoverned space (in parts of Somalia), where rival non-state actors, terrorist groups, militants and warlords do battle.
And the Internet remains what it always was, crawlable and indexable by rival commercial and non-commercial search engines and those yet to be created.
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This is not to say that non-sports programming is meaningless as the FCC recognized in its Comcast-NBCU Order, the refusal to supply a collection of non-sports programming could impair a rival distributor.
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Europe's leading insurance companies rival it in terms of non-life premiums written and balance-sheet oomph.
If a non-governmental, unfunded group can rise to rival the police, then, indeed, anything in Medan can be accomplished.
As his chemists laboured to find the best emulsifiers and flavourings, the world's first non-dairy topping, Delsoy, was creeping from rival nozzles elsewhere in the state.
The numbers also reveal a much leaner company that is cutting its headcount and a renewed focus on acquiring non-governmental clients in India to take away share from rival Wiproo (WIT).
Analysts and gamers will be looking for details such as whether PlayStation will have a better online service to rival Xbox Live and whether it will have non-traditional controllers akin to the ones Nintendo offers.
It should not take a strident Mayor to rival a high-profile teacher strike in order to replace non-performing teachers.
The global system for licences allows for rival companies to agree the use of patents under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions.
Clinton echoed rival Bob Dole's call, earlier in the day, for a ban on contributions from non-citizens.
The threat posed by Lotus SmartSuite, a rival to Microsoft Office, infuriated Microsoft, and three days after the Lotus deal, Microsoft became non-responsive to efforts to finalise a licence for Windows 95.
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