Sentence examples for overcome rivals from inspiring English sources

Oklahoma will have to overcome rivals Texas and Nebraska.

In the round of 32, Devon defeated the Somerset County League 5-4, while Jersey overcame rivals Guernsey 3-1.

Barcelona opened up a four-point lead at the top of La Liga by overcoming rivals Real Madrid at the Nou Camp.

Doha is still buzzing after overcoming rival bids from the United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea to claim the 2022 World Cup.

The shadow sports minister, Clive Efford, called for a rerun of the vote, in which Qatar overcame rival bids from the US, Australia, Japan and South Korea.

Leaning on his identity as a small-town guy just trying to survive in the big world, Erickson made his players believe they could overcome mighty rivals like Florida and Florida State.

So far as the average is concerned, Maureen believes that there are more good women players today, but she doubts that any of them is better at the net than Alice Marble was or more formidable from the baseline than Helen Wills; nor does she believe that any has had to overcome stronger rivals in winning the championship than did those two.

A caucus in St. Charles County was shut down early and the police were called when people in the crowd began chanting, "We make the rules!" The burden of avoiding a convention fight largely rests on Mr. Romney and whether he can overcome his rivals in the pending contests.

Tonight's final tellingly features Werder Bremen, 10th in the Bundesliga, against Shakhtar Donetsk, 12 points behind Dynamo Kyiv in the two-horse race that is the Ukraine league but mightily pleased to have overcome their rivals in the semi-final to become the first Ukrainian team in a European final since gaining independence from the Soviet Union.

Did those new cleats help the German team overcome its rivals?

Wrexham have overcome Conference rivals Macclesfield Town and Woking to reach the second round.