Sentence examples for engaged rival from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Okah has refused to participate in the process and his associates in the delta's largest city, Port Harcourt, last month engaged rival gangs and troops in street battles.

As Touch Gold settled back to a close fourth entering the final sweeping turn, Silver Charm moved to the lead and engaged rival Free House to what everyone thought would be a stretch duel to the wire.

The temporary ban on dollar clearing means that BNP's clients must engage rival banks to send transactions through the financial system in the US.

Although Eddie daydreams that he and Gloria might get engaged and rival the tragic loves in This Side of Paradise or A Farewell to Arms, she is too complexly alive, too sexual, too alcoholic, too intelligent, too hopeful, too much her own person not to be mangled by the demands of the marriage plot.

It wasn't easy to make out, and journalists engaged in rival efforts at exegesis, all of them wrong in my opinion.

Rather than engage her rival, Mrs. Merkel has decided to remain above the political fray — what little there has even been up to this point — by running what Der Spiegel called "an election campaign that is in fact a non-campaign".

The early political strategies of both candidates are becoming more clear, with Mr. Perry waging a campaign in all of the early-voting states — the caucuses in Iowa and Nevada, along with the primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina — and Mr. Romney focusing on New Hampshire, but eyeing Iowa as a place to engage his rival.

The UK's mental health institutions came under fire this weekend, when the British Psychological Society (BPS) launched an attack on those engaged in the rival profession of psychiatry.

The country's mental health institutions came under fire this weekend, when the British Psychological Society (BPS) launched an attack on those engaged in the rival profession of psychiatry.

But tactical decisions have influenced how and when the Republicans have chosen to engage their rivals.

Speaking just above a hush, he is not the type to engage his rivals over the airwaves or make public guarantees.