Sentence examples for intense rivals from inspiring English sources

We were very much intense rivals.

Mr. Carter and Mr. Kennedy were among the most intense rivals of their generation.

Though the country's clans are intense rivals, Somalia has few differences of ethnicity, language or religion and is among the most homogeneous places in Africa.

But it has never happened quite like this, with such intense rivals making the deal and the primary figure such a notorious character.

Soon after that, her sister began writing her own column, using the name Abigail Van Buren and titling the column Dear Abby, and the two became intense rivals and stopped speaking to each other.

But for the most part the two are intense rivals, both seeking votes from the Protestant community, which means it cannot be taken for granted that they will act as a united team of 10.

The die-hards seem not to care, either sloughing through the traffic on busy thoroughfares or duking it out with an equally intense rival: distance, which pits riders against fatigue and travel time.

On the stand, Mrs. Sandusky saw no evil, heard no evil and spoke only a little evil — against the cherubic-looking boy, now a tightly coiled 28-year-old, who was the most intense rival for her husband's attentions 15 years ago, getting what he called "creepy love letters" from his predatory "father figure".

To blame are plunging prices across the board for their products, brought about by intense competition from rivals in South Korea and Taiwan as electronics increasingly become widely interchangeable.

BMC, which makes programs for managing mainframe and server computers, left the storage software market this year, attributing its exit to a lack of return on its investment amid intense competition from rivals like I.B.M. and Veritas Software.

The Boston exchange said BeX struggled to gain market share because of intense competition from rivals.