1.   Early returns show bitter rival and outgoing President Slobodan Milosevic well ahead in the race.

2.   Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.

3.   The two manufacturers, who were once bitter rivals, have now joined forces to develop a new sports car.

4.   The two men are bitter rivals for the party leadership.

5.   They have long been bitter rivals.

6.   They still remain bitter rivals.

7.   After a clammy handshake, the two bitter rivals squared off for a no-holds-barred debate.

8.   For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club, for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics.

9.   The OSS, fore-runner of the CIA, was born out of his obtuseness, and remained his bitter rival.

10.   And it almost certainly will further sour relations between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed neighbors and bitter rivals for control of Kashmir.