Sentence examples for power rival from inspiring English sources

Competing banners scream "No to nuclear power!" Rival neighbors within villages have stopped talking to one another, and some have had shoving matches that led to lawsuits.

Mr. Zahir's main power rival in the area is Abdul Rahman Jan, a fearsome former police chief whose forces had such a nasty reputation that people in Marja reached out to the Taliban for protection.

After Empress Wuhou died and the Tang dynasty was restored to power, rival sects of Zen appeared whose members claimed to be more legitimate and more orthodox than the Zen teachers who had been associated with the discredited empress.

The Saudi prince, who is also the defence minister, said it was right of his country to suspend diplomatic relations with fellow Opec member and regional power rival Iran, but played down any prospects of physical conflict.

In 11 of 15 cases since 1500 in which a rising power rivaled a ruling power, the outcome was war.

And it emerged from the cold war with no credible great power rivals in sight, a condition that persists over a decade later.

The head in question belongs to Josué Nadal, a young attorney employed by an industrialist whose power rivals that of the President of Mexico.

Mr. Ozawa, a shadowy kingmaker whose power rivals Mr. Hatoyama's, is said to have warm feelings for China, where he has often visited, and he is widely seen as the force behind Japan's latest overtures to Beijing.

Political experts describe Mr. Ozawa's control of the party's purse strings, and its campaign to win crucial parliamentary elections this summer, as giving him power rivaling that of Mr. Hatoyama.

An austere home in a dusty alleyway here has become a center of power rivaling the American occupation headquarters in Baghdad -- and the scene of fierce inner struggles for one man's ear.

Already, they claim, solar power rivals other means of generation in the developing world, where more than a billion people are unconnected to a central power grid.