Sentence examples for a common rival from inspiring English sources

And the key to the chamber is alliances, in which like-minded parties back one another's candidates to avoid splitting the vote against a common rival.Half the respondents to our survey agreed with the statement: "We should be loyal to our own region first and then to India".

Both Instacart and these grocery chains have a common rival, Amazon, which is not only natively a digital commerce company, with all the logistics firepower that comes with that, but it has specifically made huge leaps in its own food delivery ambitions, first when it launched its own Prime-friendly Pantry and Fresh lines, and second when it acquired and expanded Whole Foods.

To thwart Trotsky he entered into an alliance with Grigory Zinovyev and Lev Kamenev, forming with them a "triumvirate" that dominated the Politburo and isolated their common rival.

Their common rival, the Soviet Union, took two decades to collapse.

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft's four-month-long courtship of Yahoo has finally thrown Yahoo into the arms of their biggest common rival, Google.

The two parties had hoped that their superior organisation and finances would win them enough momentum in last Sunday's elections to help them beat off their common rival in the presidential vote on December 6th.

In the year of Kamatari's death, the emperor conferred on him the new family name of Fujiwara ("Wisteria Arbour"), in commemoration of the place where the two had conspired to oust their common rival.

At the moment, the one big common rival in both of those scenarios is Amazon.

In practical terms, they go beyond the more theoretical and polemical argument in France that Germany's insistence on subcontracting to the International Monetary Fund a possible bailout role in crises similar to Greece's makes a mockery of the Europe that wants to turn the E.U. into a world power propelled by a common currency rivaling the dollar.

It is a common feature in rivals' handsets.

It also proposed breaking all institutional ties back to the Treaty of Rome, while it returned to supporting a common European currency to rival the United States dollar.