Sentence examples for a few rival from inspiring English sources

(There have been a few rival claimants).

Mr. Johnson's detractors also include a few rival spokesmen on the Hill, who have taken to calling him "Congressman Johnson" for his high public profile.

"I reassured him that we can fulfil his ambitions," said Bruce with undue confidence while explaining why he, and a few rival managers, should court a bothersome player at all.

In light of the proposed merger and the efforts by regulators to mandate that Time Warner's cable system be opened to at least a few rival users, questions have been raised whether such regulatory distinctions any longer make sense.

By Christmas Eve, he was back in Durban with a wonderful scoop (his own escape) and quickly found himself "a popular hero", though a few rival newspapers suggested that the Boers would have been entitled to execute him for muddling military and civilian roles.

But a few rival platforms have emerged "in the last few years" — and here she reckons Zizoo has managed to outgrow the startup competition "thanks to our unique vertically integrated business model, offering suppliers a booking management system and making it easy for the user to book a boat holiday".

The Citizens United decision has only a few rivals as the most significant one of the Roberts court.

In later life, he sometimes boasted that in 1915 he had been a gold prospector in the Klondike and had shot up quite a few rivals who tried to jump his claim, but no record confirms this reminiscence, and such acts of violence would seem rather alien to his normally mild disposition.

The idea seems to be that co-operating with a few rivals who share many of the same customers will give those customers enough variety to dissuade them from going to other competitors' sites.All this activity may be less revolutionary than it appears, however.

He allows a few rivals to give speeches early in the gathering, but prime time is reserved for a speech by his aide Beelzebub, who straddles the hawk-dove divide by proposing a coalition-building compromise: send someone to the newly created creatures on earth to "seduce them to our party".

Google's shopping queries, for example, demoted all but a few rivals' sites from the first page of search results, the commission found.