Sentence examples for geographic rivalry from inspiring English sources

But does a deep-seated geographic rivalry really require a map?

Liberal democracy versus fanatic Islamist fundamentalism: that's not a dialectic, or even a geographic rivalry — it's two worlds conceptually (though not, alas, physically) sealed off from one another.

Miami versus Tampa Bay is not exactly a geographic rivalry on par with the White Sox versus the Cubs or the Giants versus the A's.

With rolling eyes and dancing eyebrows, Ms. Kane put across numbers like "Litvak and Galitz," which mocks a geographic rivalry between more intellectual and more emotional Jews.

Pregame media coverage focused on the close geographic rivalry between the two teams and the success of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin in reversing his team's poor fortune from the previous season.

This geographic rivalry went on without Seattle for two years after 2009 saw the Sounders enter MLS, and was restored to all three cities when the MLS expansion teams in Portland and Vancouver began play in the 2011 season.

With 32 teams, the league seized the opportunity to create eight four-team divisions and new, geographic rivalries.

This is it!" The Florida-Florida State game is one of many traditional geographic rivalries to be contested in college football on Saturday.

THERE is disagreement— whether stemming from geographic rivalries or plain old confusion — on how best to draw a line around this boisterous, night-lively neighborhood.

McLeod added, "From a common-sense standpoint, I could see some reconfiguring that would make more sense regarding competitive balance and geographic rivalries".

SACRAMENTO — Two Southern Californians are poised to lead the state Legislature for the first time in four decades, after lawmakers put aside the geographic rivalries that typically cleave the powerful posts between north and south.