Sentence examples for face the rivalry from inspiring English sources

It was the first one to face the rivalry of Amazon for printed book sales.

The facial injury was worked into the angle, and when Mercury returned wearing a protective covering on his face, the rivalry between the teams intensified with MNM actively seeking to injure one or both of the Hardys, even going so far as to attack and perform a Snapshot on Matt on exposed concrete following a match.

Upon Malcolm's death, Duncan succeeded peacefully, but he soon faced the rivalry of Macbeth, Mormaor (subking) of Moray, who probably had a better claim to the throne.

Vladislas was also faced with the rivalry of the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I for the Hungarian crown and was obliged to concede the Habsburg succession to his territories should his own line be extinguished (Peace of Pressburg, 1491; Treaty of Vienna, 1515); that agreement greatly contributed to the eventual formation of a Habsburg Danubian empire.

But following the Duke game, the Yellow Jackets faced Georgia in the rivalry known as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.

To end the rivalry, they faced each other in a Falls Count Anywhere match at WrestleMania X, which Savage won.

"The south got something to say!" he spat in the face of the coastal rivalry brewing that summer night.

Royal Bank of Scotland emerged yesterday as a possible bidder for a key stake in Bank of China, the country's second largest bank, in the face of stiff rivalry from a list of suitors that includes some of the west's leading organisations in the sector.

By the end of the 19th century, political leaders as well as social theorists responded to the need to build popular support and national unity in the face of increased rivalry between imperial powers and growing transnational movements for the empowerment of workers, women, and colonials.

As newly independent states, many of the NAM members had to face the challenges posed by superpower rivalry and the Cold War (Jansen 1966).

Google is determined to push its social network in the face of continued rivalry with Facebook.