Sentence examples for ancient rival from inspiring English sources

Since China is such an ancient rival, its success is also a direct challenge to Vietnam.

Quarterly figures announced this week showed that China had overtaken its ancient rival.

The 16-run margin of defeat was the Yankees' largest against their ancient rival.

Canary Wharf, the "second City", an "evil twin" to London's financial district, has overtaken its ancient rival, according to the Financial Times.

While some argue that Oxford's admissions reflect the advantage in A-level grades enjoyed by pupils from independent schools, others point out that its ancient rival, Cambridge, has seen its proportion of state pupils grow in recent years.

This, Mr. Lewis wrote in 1990 in a celebrated essay in The Atlantic Monthly (which introduced the catch phrase the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington then made famous) "is no less than a clash of civilizations -- the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present and the worldwide expansion of both".

Centuries of tension between these ancient rivals reverberated during each possession.

This weekend, the Red Sox were not so much ancient rivals as bystanders to a roadside wreck.

After China's anti-Japanese riots last month, can Asia's two ancient rivals unwind together on the beach?

It has twice in the past half-century brought Greece and Turkey, ancient rivals and NATO allies, to the brink of war.

One of these four ancient rivals, all in the same towns since 1903, will have absolutely no chance to win the pennant or the World Series.