Sentence examples for class rivalries from inspiring English sources

An assiduous politician, Christina was able to keep the bitter class rivalries that broke out after the Thirty Years' War from lapsing into civil war but was unable to solve the desperate financial problems caused by the long years of fighting.

First, Earley knows Jim and his world with a sureness and an intimacy that always mark the most involving fiction; he understands even the uglier things that Jim is so slow to recognize, like the class rivalries between the more prosperous townspeople and the "lintheads" who work in the mills.

But by the mid-1760s these riots had subsided, and as colonial America moved towards revolution, the class rivalries featured during Pope Day gave way to anti-British sentiment.

In Burgess's hands, Yankees-Mets class rivalry becomes a comment on how fairness is doled out in New York as a whole, and dramatizes a theme running through the novel: revenge.

Although often interrupted by episodes of oligarchic or tyrannical rule and by periods of civic dissension and class rivalry, the main theme of governmental development in the Greek city was the elaboration of structures that permitted the control of political affairs by its citizens.

The characters' goal is to persuade the gods to bring rain, but politics, class divisions and bitter family rivalries intervene.

The historic rivalry between the first and second cities of Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh – "a middle-class rivalry made up by middle-class comedians" according to comic Janey Godley – has been underlined by the yes/no divide of Thursday's vote.

Peacock will lead the field at Saturday's IPC Grand Final in Birmingham before rekindling his world-class rivalry with Oliveira and Browne at the World Championships in Lyon next month.

More and more, Byzantium was at the mercy of its foreign competitors and enemies, who promoted and exploited the political and family rivalries among the ruling class.

Bellew shows class transcends rivalry.

Maria Padian, the author of two previous young adult novels ("Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best" and "Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress"), offers plenty of story in "Out of Nowhere": romantic rivalries, class tensions, family pressures.