Sentence examples for and vies from inspiring English sources

The half-hour show, on Monday night at 9, is CBS's biggest comedy hit and vies with NBC's "Friends" as the No. 1 sitcom in the nation.

In Brazil, too, a market which Carrefour entered in 1975, the company is treated like a local and vies for leadership with a Brazilian firm.

The E-Class accounts for nearly a third of Mercedes's worldwide car sales, and vies with the M-Class sport utility as the company's best seller in the United States.

THE historic city of Reims, an easy hour-and-a-half train ride from Paris, is the home of one of France's greatest cathedrals and vies with nearby Epernay as the capital of Champagne: many of the largest and most legendary houses -- Taittinger, Pommery, Krug, Ruinart, with its Gallic-Roman wine cellars carved out of limestone -- are here.

28 Centenary of the birth of Patrick White, the prickly Australian novelist who won the Nobel prize in 1973, and vies with Elias Canetti and Alberto Moravia for the coveted title of major author whose works are most often seen in secondhand bookshops.

Was not Alfred Nobel an arms maker before he became a prize-endower?Many carp about Mr Nguema's regime, perhaps because he snatched power in a coup 30 years ago and vies with Libya's Muammar Qaddafi as Africa's longest-serving leader.

"The males are flying and vying for the females.

Friday's, Einstein Brothers, Wolfgang Puck Express and Vie de France.

They fall in love and vie to die first.

Competitors develop their own products and vie to win the most users.

Both were heirs apparent, and vied for approval from their king.