Sentence examples for he vies from inspiring English sources
In power since 1979, he vies with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Libya's Muammar Qaddafi as Africa's longest-ruling ruler.
He vies with a motorcycle racer, Valentino Rossi, for the title of Italy's most-followed Twitter user.
He vies with the matador and the flying aces an object of thrilled adulation.... "He is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.
The $3.7 billion flotation of its property division in December sent his personal fortune soaring past $25 billion: he vies with Alibaba's Jack Ma for the title of the country's richest man.
It's probably just as well that Alford doesn't tell her about "Touch the Waiter," a private amusement in which he vies with tablemates to see who can touch a waiter the most often without the waiter becoming aware of it.
These days, he says, he vies for artworks with the governments of Qatar and Abu Dhabi and the royal family of Morocco in an intensely competitive market for Orientalist masterpieces, of which the pickings are increasingly slim.
In 1871 he vied with Sir Hugh Allan for a charter to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
He vied for every centimeter of roadway in thick traffic and sped as fast as possible when congestion eased.
First, he vied all year with Sammy Sosa, who briefly led with 66 home runs to McGwire's 65 but finished there while McGwire went on to hit 70.
In 1997, he vied to succeed Daniel P. Tully as the head of the firm, but lost out when David H. Komansky was named chief executive.
On Thursday, as he vied to win what was essentially a conservative beauty contest among potential presidential contenders, Walker boasted about a new war with unions.
