11.   Its intensity probably owed as much to turf wars between rival drug gangs as to political rivalry.

12.   Just as history is filled with political rivalries, so, too, is it replete with stories of mended fences.

13.   Mrs. Jobim thinks her husband has fallen victim to political rivalries between the mayor and the City Council.

14.   New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi quietly dropped his controversial financial adviser amid intensifying political rivalry with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

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

16.   So long as the drug trade flourishes, law enforcement officials said, it will fuel political rivalries, foster corruption and undermine the authority of the central government.

17.   Surely in this case political rivalries need to be set aside in service of the larger cause.

18.   The crisis appears to have smoothed over longstanding political rivalries within the convention.

19.   The dyspeptic Bob Dole and the bubbly George Bush had a great political rivalry.

20.   The deaths have come as a result of internal score-settling, business disagreements or, increasingly, political rivalry.