Sentence examples for past rival from inspiring English sources

Green returned, however, to lead the Spartans at home past rival Michigan.

Until now, although he is a past rival of Mr Hollande, Mr Valls has been studiously loyal.

It has already nosed past rival General Motors and has plenty of momentum in China, the world's largest car market.

His mantle as leader of the Republican Party is about to pass to Mr. McCain, a past rival who invokes Mr. Bush's name on the campaign trail only when he talks about tax cuts and Iraq.

How many other friends?" Most ballplayers who are discussing a past rival or a teammate go directly to the man's craft — what pitches he could hit, his arm, his range afield, or (with pitchers) his stuff and what he threw when the count was against him.

The Indonesian palm oil sector itself emerged from active facilitation of the state in the past (Rival and Levang 2014; Casson 1999; Pramudya et al., 2017a), and therefore seeing the state as an important agent for sector transformation is undeniable.

Others, including past rivals, defend Romney's motivations.

IT HAD been purring along nicely, handling the twists and turns of the world economy, powering past rivals, inspiring envy.

Rudy Gestede settled a scrappy Second City derby as Aston Villa edged past rivals Birmingham in the Capital One Cup.

Merely reliving their envy of past rivals apparently caused them to pay more attention to current peers, even though there was nothing obviously threatening about these two people.

It is considerably lighter, stores far more energy, has a much longer lifetime, and is quicker to recharge than either of its past rivals, nickel-cadmium ("nicad") and nickel-metal hydride batteries.