Sentence examples for a vicious rivalry from inspiring English sources

In the days that followed, Shaaliver came to embody the worst possibilities of urban teenage life: a repeat offender caught up in a vicious rivalry with other gang members, one that erupted into violence at a time when most boys his age are home, safely asleep.

She discovers a Druse boy who murdered his beloved sister after she left the house unaccompanied; a pair of Israeli schoolgirls with a vicious rivalry; and a Bedouin smuggler who was in jail when his wives ran off, so he wrote withering poems about them.

Still other officials say the mayhem may be partly a result of a vicious rivalry between two Qaeda subcommanders in Mali, Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, a clash that underscores the kind of autonomous jihad cells that counterterrorism officials say are particularly hard to combat.

But for some -- and Spanish cabdrivers, it must be said, seem to number high among their ranks -- the revelation provokes a gleeful, even vicious, rivalry.

Instead the vote, organised by a little-known Swiss film-maker and businessman, sparked vicious rivalry, bickering, backstabbing and allegations of corruption among the 21 finalists.

Maybe Killing Season is going to be about their vicious rivalry.

The McLaren drivers were known for their vicious rivalry on the track and their battles within the team.

The hearing for Dmitrichenko, 29, set 22 October as the start date for the trial, which is expected to dredge up the murky intrigue and vicious rivalry that exists backstage in one of Russia's grandest cultural theatres.

Just two days later, he went ahead and played the Smile Jamaica concert designed to cheer and unite the people ahead of the December 1976 general election, which was contested against a backdrop of vicious rivalries – between the gangs and the two main political parties – with the dons and politicians alike all seeing Bob as a figure they wanted on their side.

THE commercial theater is famous for "creative differences" — also known as vicious rivalries, titanic egos, abrupt firings, explosive fights and nasty backbiting.

I learned about the vicious rivalries, the bitter feuds, the drug deaths, the judging fiascos, the nobility and the sacrifice and the determination, the redemptive power of posing to music in a tiny pair of spangly trunks.