Sentence examples for deadly rivalries from inspiring English sources

Such deadly rivalries make for a nervous campaign.National politicians are watching carefully.

Undermined by deadly rivalries and by federal investigations, the family was shunned by the other New York Mafia families as a fractious, unreliable partner.

★ GEMINI 21 May-20 Jun Key partnerships (and even deadly rivalries) are up for renegotiation over the next couple of weeks, with war hatchets buried ready for the season of goodwill.

Soon, Kano — a quiet, stone-cold killer with little worldly experience but a steely attitude — sets men's hearts aflame throughout the unit, sparking deadly rivalries among his cohorts and rattling his commanders, notably the cunning and tautly controlled Toshi (Takeshi Kitano).

The civil war that erupted in 2013 has escalated from a dispute between President Salva Kiir, from the dominant Dinka ethnic group, and exiled vice-president Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, into a full-blown crisis of deadly rivalries, cattle raiding and revenge killings.

But Lebovich said talk of deadly rivalries between the two appeared to be overblown.

Near the end of his life, Girard worried about the deadly rivalry of nations armed with nuclear weapons.

It's a fantastical 19th-century confection about illusion, performance and a deadly rivalry between magicians – rather than acrobats and dogs on bicycles.

As a result, the Syrian Baʿthists established their own Pan-Arab central committee, thereby creating a deadly rivalry with the Iraqi Baʿthists, as each claimed to be the legitimate leader of the Pan-Arab nationalist cause.

Exploring the dramatic world of illusion and ambition of two magicians locked in a deadly rivalry, Christopher Nolan's film was an opportunity for Jackman to show that he could do showmanship without enormous extendable metal claws.

Interestingly, this is essentially the same verdict that Josephus delivers, except that, instead of a personal dispute over a party invitation, he talks about the deadly rivalry between political and religious factions.