Sentence examples for a poor rival from inspiring English sources

As a meat, it's a poor rival to beef steak.

And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco".

Staying true to its image as the kinder, quirkier and poorer rival, Lyft chose to eschew the "pay-to-play" sponsorship route.

Some Afro-Colombian leaders see it as a poor imitation of the rival pageant, while reinforcing standards in which women are judged almost solely on their appearance.

Her indexer has done a poor job – Cahiers' chief rival, Positif (for long a much superior journal), figures prominently in the text but goes unmentioned in the index.

Nothing was ever the same again: European expansionism had finally been checked in Asia, though Japan was set to make a poor fist of its rival model.

However, by his own later admission, Rhodes had a poor match, while his rival for Peel's place in the side, Albert Cordingley, took nine wickets.

His first foray into management at Genoa was cut short after six games, sacked after a poor run despite overcoming rivals Sampdoria 3-0.

Even London Business School, which sets its own M.B.A. fees, is a poor cousin to its American rivals.

Other parts of India's hydra-headed government may feel more warmly towards China, but they will find it hard to silence the hawks.For China, which tends to look on India not as a rival but as a poor neighbour afflicted by bureaucracy and democracy, suspicion springs less from fear than from pique at India's spurning of Chinese investment.

Megson left last week with his team third in League One - just three days after the Owls had ended a poor run to see off promotion rivals Sheffield United in the Steel City derby.