As a result, dead males may act as plugs to prevent other males from copulating, ensuring that the suicidal male, not a rival, fathers the offspring.
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However, unlike Mexico, Germany are not a bitter rival, only a competitive and respected one.
No sweeping search for an outsider took place, and internally not a single rival emerged.
The first step should be picking a partner that is not a direct rival, according to Mr Ghosn.
Such people are often considered for the top spots in their companies, but often find that their path is blocked not by a rival but by an executive team who understands that if you want to run a business unit, or a company, you need to work with people, not in spite of them.
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At that moment he did not feel like a rival but I suppose that is what will happen.
Web surfing on an EV-DO connection may not quite rival a home broadband experience, but it's often more than adequate for most Web tasks.
The United States was in a very different position, and in the realms of technology and economics did not really have a serious rival for a generation.
Before it gets to the climax, however, "Body of Lies" offers a long, elaborate setup -- involving ingenious computer hackery and a not very believable sting operation that creates a rival for Al-Saleem.
Saudi Arabia now uses it for natural gas and will not free it for a rival's oil.
It might not be a feud to rival Heath vs Thatcher or Blair vs Brown but the row between Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Louise Mensch is in the tradition of great Westminster spats.
If overpaying hugely for a rival does not count as inept, then what does?
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It should not take a strident Mayor to rival a high-profile teacher strike in order to replace non-performing teachers.
But its chief objective seems to be defensive: to pre-empt the stunning rise of Google, a search engine which, though not a portal, could soon rival Yahoo!
Mr Monti, who leads a centrist coalition while not standing as a candidate himself, also attacked conservative rival Silvio Berlusconi.
Shares in Verizon have had a good 2013 thus far, outperforming not only its largest rival but also the market and by a wide margin.
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"If it's possible to source the raw ingredients for a mobile phone - and I am not talking anything to rival Apple - I'll certainly have a good bash, " he says.
But competing against Linux is not like competing against a normal commercial rival, however fearsome.
And it is understood that a rival club would not have to pay out any compensation if he were to want to move on.
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While not a perfect comparison, its main rival, Oracle Corp.
So would a big vote for his nearest rival, Mustafa Barghouti (a clansman but not a close relation of Marwan), who is campaigning on another issue that bothers Palestinians a lot: corruption in the Palestinian Authority.
Why would a company not only introduce its own competition, but share the profit with a rival?
Archipelago will help it do that, but not if Archipelago gets picked off by a rival in a counteroffer.
The players refused to adhere to demands from the board that they should not endorse products from a sponsor's rival.
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After Powell's announcement, McCain told FOX News he considered Powell and himself "longtime friends" and that he respected him, but that the endorsement of his rival did not come as a surprise.
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The position he'd been offered in a future takeover by Barclays had not been attractive, he added, and Scott-Barrett presumably believed he would not have held a suitably senior position under rival suitors, Royal Bank of Scotland, either.
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Yet the Saudis will not be unhappy to see Iran, a regional rival, squirm.
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