Unlike traditional fighting games, the health bars are essentially meaningless, as a single power hit can take down your rival.
In a league like the SEC, being good is no longer acceptable when your rival manages to be great every year.
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Within hours of appearing on a live radio debate with your rival candidates, a contentious story breaks... and you have to embrace the "instant rebuttal" position.
You qualified for the playoffs on the last day of the season with a losing record. (Laughter.) That's cutting it a little close, guys. (Laughter.) You beat your biggest rival, took down the defending champions on your way to the title game.
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Building trust and understanding your political rival's intentions naturally takes time and it is clear other unionists are wary about Sinn Fein's motives.
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"It's always good to compete against the person who's your main rival before the championships so you can determine what you need to do, " he said.
It also the smug feeling when your high school rival shows up at the reunion wearing an extra 100 pounds.
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Evasiveness will guarantee a fate similar to your Pac 12 rival USC.
Major airlines always have the ability to switch you to another carrier, but they are loathe to do this as it means passing your ticket revenue onto a rival.
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Recently, professors Rafael Corredoira from the University of Maryland and Lori Rosenkopf from the Wharton School even found a beneficial effect of your employees being poached by rival firms.
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Your friends might think that you rival Mario Batali in the kitchen, or that you can go sole for sole with the likes of Kenneth Cole.
Your friends might think that you rival Mario Batali in the kitchen, or that you can go sole for sole with the likes of Kenneth Cole (nyse: KCP - news - people ).
The rules are vague, the stakeholder list huge, the demands varied, the pace of change exhausting, the possibility of a rival or employee stealing your idea or IP nearly certain, and the number of rivals high.
Seeing your star employees being poached by a rival always seems a bit of a bummer.
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And, if you're a woman who's the less attractive one in a friendship pair, you're also more likely to view your more attractive friend as a mating rival.
The goal is to harvest resources (food, wood, gold and stone), construct buildings (including sawmills, watch towers and barracks) on a huge, randomly generated map in order to seek out and destroy rival races while simultaneously protecting your burgeoning town.
It's one thing to block a rival's Web address from accessing your site, notes Barry Parr, an analyst with International Data Corp.
If you were a successful broker on Wall Street in 2008 and 2009 your employer likely threw wads of cash your way to keep you from fleeing to a rival firm.
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Your benefactor may lose his position or may move his sponsorship to a rival.
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Add an antagonistic factor: if your product is the best it is always important to have a competitor or rival.
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Rival players and managers are being asked to say nice things about you, about your impact on the game.
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