Sentence examples for because of rivalry from inspiring English sources

The next year the audience dropped to 13.4 million, partly because of rivalry from reality shows like "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" on ABC.

Because of rivalry and corruption, such consensus is rare in Romanian politics and quite tenuous, noted Dr. Aurel Braun, a professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto and research associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

It led to a lot of trouble on and off the field because of rivalries running to hatreds.

He was forced to flee Syria with his immediate family as a child because of rivalries in the Assad clan, which has dominated Syrian politics since the 1970s.

Trade ties between Iraq and Syria were solidified only in the late 1990's, after the two countries opened border posts that had been closed for nearly a decade because of rivalries between the two governments.

For example, because of rivalries between army and navy intelligence offices, which did not want to jeopardize the "security" of their information, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not given sensitive information about Japan in the months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Bo Xilai's supporters in Chongqing certainly feel he has been brought down less because of any corruption on his own part, more because of rivalries among China's communist elites.

Over two decades the archipelago fleet went through several changes caused by the competition between the Hats and the Caps, the dominant political fractions at the time, and because of rivalries between army and navy.

"There is a sense of rivalry, because we know we're not like them," said Magdalena Barajas, a member of a fan group that supports F. C. Tucson.

But because of the rivalry, people can't handle that".

"That was the best memory of last year because of the rivalry with Tottenham," he adds.