Sentence examples for ex-rival from inspiring English sources

Many of the people he has retained or put in place have done well, including his ex-rival, Hillary Clinton.So what went wrong?

Last year, his Republican ex-rival and Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann was told by Tom Petty's lawyers to stop using his song American Girl.

Many Russians still consider this episode one of the most humiliating memories of the "turbulent 90s" – having to beg for food from an ex-rival superpower.

The Anglican communion, with 70m souls from Canada to Africa, is a creature almost as heterogeneous as ex-rival Rome, but without the slap of dogma to keep it in line.

He is the only candidate so far to collect all 50,000 signatures needed to officially register and he has won the support of his ex-rival Mr Klaus.He is also one of three candidates, alongside Mr Fischer and Mr Dlouhý, who was a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in the 1980s.

Is it because he wouldn't want his ex-rival's large-egoed husband to get credit for saving his bacon?

Within a week of his re-election on May 20, Mr. Nagin announced that two ex-rivals from the campaign — both lawyers, one a Republican and the other a Democrat — would be aiding him in urgent planning for the city's future.

Between them his prominent governor and ex-governor rivals – Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich – amassed a pitiful 7 per cent.

Instead, all Gingrich will be able to do is argue – as he did recently – that his ex-consultant rival is just a "competent manager," whereas he's a true "change agent".

We're mired in a League One relegation dogfight, the players are injured or knackered, and every day an ex-pro, rival manager or snarky journalist publicly reminds everybody I'm under pressure.

Is it far-fetched to see this as the turf for a titanic struggle which may come our way quite soon between George Osborne, the 'northern' chancellor with a Cheshire power base, and his equally metro-centric, ex-Bullingdon rival, the mayor of London?