In 1889, following a drawn-out series of provocations regarding the honour of his wife, Tomić stabbed to death a liberal political rival, Miša Dimitrijević, the editor of Branik magazine, in Novi Sad.

His liberal rival, Francesco Rutelli, the former mayor of Rome, was grilled for 12 minutes by the news anchor of another station owned by Mr. Berlusconi.

But FoxNews has positioned NPR as its liberal rival (a strategy James Fallows lays out thoroughly at the Atlantic), some kind of loud, angry bastion of the left.

Writers at The Post regularly point out gossip items that they reported ahead of the "Daily Snooze" - as they call their larger, slightly more sober and more liberal rival.

More emphatically, he said he would "definitely not" liken himself to Boris N. Yeltsin, Mr. Gorbachev's liberal rival.

Yet it is fast becoming conventional wisdom about the liberal markets of America, Britain, Canada and Australia, both at home and abroad in their less financially liberal rivals, such as Germany, Japan and France.

As a conservador (a member of Mexico's conservative faction), Ampudia was quickly relegated to a staff position in favor of his liberal rival, General Mariano Arista.

In 1954, the Times-Herald was purchased by, and merged into its more liberal rival, "The Post".

One of Al Gore's core strengths against Bill Bradley is that he is less likely to raise taxes than his more liberal rival.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was elected president shortly after Khomeini's death, and has been described as less revolutionary and "isolationist" than his rivals - "economically liberal, politically authoritarian, and philosophically traditional."