Sentence examples for acute rivalry from inspiring English sources

The Roman clergy's stay (866 870) soon became a sore point in the acute rivalry between Rome and Constantinople.

Acute rivalry led to "organised processions" in honour of the classics written by poets of the respective sects.

Two-thirds of St Paul's residents think the inter-city rivalry is acute; fewer than half the people of Minneapolis feel that way.

Tensions are also acute over the economic rivalry between the countries at a time when China is struggling to maintain its growth rate.

The rivalry is more acute in India, where Tencent backed homegrown Amazon rival Flipkart in a funding round that included participation from Microsoft and eBay.

Surely, now both Dames in their 70s, with all the most prestigious literary prizes between them (Byatt won the Booker for Possession in 1990), the old rivalries are less acute?

If both countries savor victory, and fear defeat, in ways that are more acute than in other soccer rivalries, they do so now, mostly, with a wry sense of humor that tells its own story about the power of sport as a bonding agent between nations, exactly what World Cups are supposed to represent.

The rivalry is keen.

Yet the sense of rivalry  between these two is acute.

This is particularly true in the countries where perceived U.S.-Russia rivalry is said to be most acute, like Ukraine.

The rivalry between Bradford and Leeds is particularly acute.