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To the contrary, Will argued, "Because [Jackson] is black, his white rivals sit silently beside him, leaving his foolishness unremarked.
Romans who delight in Bernini’s scorn for his rivals suggest that the Nile god covers his head rather than look at Borromini’s church of Sant’Agnese in Agone, and the river god of the Americas is poised to catch it in case it collapses.
The victors began looting, and hunting down the new leader's political rivals, one of whom has already been executed.
But McCain also defied the political playbook by deprecating himself in a shrewd effort to pre-empt criticism and turn up the heat on his rivals.
When Prohibition was lifted, Sam was one of the most powerful distillers in North America, and for the next 30 years, he bullied employees and terrorized rivals to make Seagram an international liquor powerhouse.