Sentence examples for a regional rival from inspiring English sources

Iran was also once a regional rival of Pakistan.

Yet the Saudis will not be unhappy to see Iran, a regional rival, squirm.

All three fear lest the vacuum left behind be filled by a regional rival.

Its biggest expansion came in April, when it doubled in size by acquiring Sterling, a regional rival.

Nor would they rush to congratulate longtime nemesis Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the leader of a regional rival with nuclear ambitions.

Garber, a Queens native, has wisely said the league needs a 20th team, a regional rival to the Red Bulls, who play in Harrison, N.J.

A second shock came with Mr Obama's sudden moves towards rapprochement with Iran, a country the Saudis see as a hostile Shia power and a bitter regional rival.

Japan has longstanding ties with Taiwan, its former colony, but does not want to ruffle relations with China, a major economic partner, as well as a potential regional rival.

Turkey's economy is in dire straits, and Erdogan has found himself in a position to demand major concessions from a longtime regional rival in Riyadh, using hardball tactics to make the Saudi rulers squirm.

A reunified Korea allied with the United States would potentially be a powerful regional rival.

The Saudis instead fear Iran as a subversive regional rival, geopolitically in unstable countries such as Iraq and Syria, and ideologically as a Shia power challenging the Saudis' fundamentalist Sunni creed.