Sentence examples similar to almost rivalry from inspiring English sources
The matchup blossomed into an almost-rivalry as early as 2007, when Jim Harbaugh's 41-point underdog Stanford team shocked USC.
An almost continuous rivalry with the emperor Frederick III ran through Matthias' reign.
Still, associates of both men said, that relationship was always more pragmatic than personal, a recognition by two very ambitious men, whose similar backgrounds almost ensured a rivalry, that they had stumbled across a chemistry that could deliver them the White House.
This rivalry almost seems ordained.
Political unrest and bitter commercial rivalries almost derailed Turkey's newest art fair.
Usually this time of year, college football enthusiasts gaze south -- at the Southeastern Conference, where national title contenders are eliminated almost weekly in bitter rivalry games, or toward perennial powers like Florida State and Miami.
While in the metropolitan countries from the 1960s onwards, the cold war was a conflict almost without violence, superpower rivalry helped to lay waste great tracts of what came to be called the third world.
If I can't say that by now, being almost 60.... ..... Connors's rivalry with Bjorn Borg, and Evert's with Navratilova, were the first of tennis's modern Open Era, which started in 1968 when tournaments began to allow professionals to compete with amateurs and pointed the game toward the nexus of Big Money and Big Media where all major sports thrive today.
Rivalry is almost irrelevant.
In Malaysia, the interest borders on obsession and club rivalries are almost as fierce as on the terraces of faraway English grounds.
