Sentence examples for competitive rival from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — As effective as Mitt Romney's campaign has been, it has benefited from one unusual advantage: the absence so far of a fully competitive rival for the Republican nomination.

"The preference is to have a competitive rival in the same team.

Combining Verizon, AOL and Yahoo will create a new powerful competitive rival in mobile media, and an open, scaled alternative offering for advertisers and publishers".

This opens some interesting doors for the company, making it either a competitive rival (or interesting complementary acquisition) not just for the Autodesks and Adobes of this world, but massive photo agencies like the Gettys, as well.

Shakespeare, as Ben Jonson, his competitive rival, wrote, "was not of an age, but for all time!" What could be a more appropriate than knighting ever-living Shakespeare on his 450th birthday in the second Elizabethan era?

Of course, Facebook will remain an immense force in the cyber world for years to come because, well, Marky Z has about 500 million friends to support him and no sign of a truly competitive rival in social networking to challenge his supremacy (of course, that's what they said about MySpace and watch out for Google).

Some large retailers are expanding by taking business from smaller, less competitive rivals.

In Courchevel 1850, places like Aspen are not considered competitive rivals.

"In turn, the influence business in Brussels has become ever larger and more competitive, rivaled only by Washington's".

"They are on track to become globally competitive, rivaling the Apples and the Facebooks and the Googles," Ms. Bayrasli said.

The very fact that six highly competitive rivals were willing to bury their hatchets showed the depth of the problem.