Sentence examples for a large rival from inspiring English sources
"It's hard to believe that someone can make that much in a single year," said an executive at a large rival energy trader who insisted on anonymity.
The $10.7 billion transaction, which will require approval from European antitrust officials as well as shareholders, would reduce the number of network operators in Germany to three from four, and would create a large rival to T-Mobile Germany and Vodafone Germany, which together have more than half of the market.
While Catawiki clearly has a large rival in eBay, it has also been working to differentiate itself from the auction industry giant.
Walgreens, a larger rival, is pursuing a similar strategy and has 770 clinics.
Near the end of 1994, the owner of the Square Deal, a larger, rival newspaper, died.
Maxtor is cutting prices to win customers from a larger rival, Seagate Technology.
USA Waste Services bought a larger rival, Waste Management, for $24.9 billion in 1998 and adopted the name.
The Spanish central bank rescued CajaSur in May after it rejected a merger proposal from a larger rival.
Also focusing bankers' minds was the unexpected collapse of CajaSur, a bank in Andalusia controlled by the Catholic Church that had refused to merge with a larger rival.
Societa Assicuratrice Industriale, a leading Italian insurer, said regulators blocked its purchase of a 1 billion euro ($900 million) stake in a larger rival, Fondiaria Assicurazioni.
The board of an Australian bank, St. George, accepted a takeover bid of 18.5 billion Australian dollars ($17.5 billion) from a larger rival, Westpac Banking, the companies said.
