21.   It was the end-game to the most intense rivalry in sports at that time, and the vibes in the Garden were electric, and heavy.

22.   Missing the latest installment of this increasingly intense rivalry, mind you, is what hurts most.

23.   Now most of those leaders are dead, victims of ethnic militancy or intense political rivalries that turned lethal in unsettled times.

24.   She and Ms. Sawyer have an intense rivalry, at least according to people at the highest levels at ABC, but both women deny it.

25.   That goes a long way to explaining the intense rivalry between the three video-game player manufacturers, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

26.   The announcement reflects the intense rivalry between two competing groups of physicists at the four-mile-circumference Fermilab accelerator ring.

27.   The center was roiled by intense factional rivalries that echoed much of my own turmoil.

28.   The decision was a difficult call because of the intense rivalry between India and Pakistan and the strife between the two nations over Kashmir, among other issues.

29.   The first game ever played between the New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday should be the forerunner of an intense rivalry.

30.   The intense rivalry between the nations was rekindled by the bidding for the World Cup.