Sentence examples for a powerful rival for from inspiring English sources

Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn Boozy Patrick has a powerful rival for the attention of his wife Mary: his baby son Thomas.

So it is just possible that Mr Montealegre, rather than Mr Ortega, might be the main beneficiary of Mr Lewites's demise, which has removed a powerful rival for the centre ground of politics.Mr Ortega stood in each of the past three presidential elections, losing to the Liberals each time.

The result, which was anticipated, stops the three industry leaders, Tesco, J Sainsbury and Asda, from absorbing Safeway, the country's fourth-largest supermarket chain, and may now create a more powerful rival for them.

He has built Rede Record, bought for $45m in 1990, into a powerful rival to Globo, the country's leading broadcaster.

He will be a powerful rival.

Maldonado acknowledged he was facing a powerful rival in double world champion Fernando Alonso, who starts second in his Ferrari.

From his modest Moscow surroundings you wouldn't realize that Lebed is a powerful rival to Luzhkov.

Intentionally or not, she has positioned herself as a powerful contender for the role, and thus as a rival to James.

His choice of powerful rivals for his Cabinet was, Goodwin writes, "evidence of a profound self-confidence and a first indication of what would prove to others a most unexpected greatness".

The scandal and Mr. Heywood's death appear to have offered critics an opening to sideline a potentially powerful rival.

Russia, China and Japan -- which for centuries jockeyed for supremacy on the peninsula -- are hardly enthusiastic today about the possibility of a newly powerful rival in the neighborhood.