Sentence examples for and the rival of from inspiring English sources

Hovering at the edge of it all, some officials whisper, is the man who, to some Iraqis, is the most enigmatic and perhaps most threatening of all, Uday Saddam Hussein, at 38 the president's oldest son, and the rival of Mr. Hussein's other son, Qusay, 36.

Moreover, consumer groups and the rivals of the Bells say that if the rules are ultimately abolished, rates will rise.

Ironically, though Van Gennep was regarded as the rival of Durkheim and pushed aside in his lifetime, through the efforts of Gluckman and Turner etc., his points have been integrated into the structure-functionalism (Turner 1974:ch.5).5

Syria, Egypt, and Anatolia were first the teachers and then the rivals of Constantinople (Istanbul).

She is very good on the cities where Humboldt lived and the rival atmospheres of Paris and Berlin.

In all likelihood, that would make them the clear majority in the Iraqi National Alliance, a predominantly Shiite coalition and the leading rival of Mr. Maliki.

During the 15th century the French kings continued to face threats both from the English and from the rival factions of the Burgundians and the Armagnacs.

The Mongols had united under his leadership, and defeated the rival tribes of the steppes.

Still, Conan Doyle chose to have Holmes use fingerprints and not the rival technique of Bertillonage or anthropometry.

However, Hussein's regime was dominated by Sunni Muslims and regarded the rival branch of Islam as a political threat.

An unscrupulous alliance against John was made by Eudoxia, the wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius, and the archbishop of the rival see of Alexandria, the powerful Theophilus.