Sentence examples for powerful rival from inspiring English sources

Actual ballot-rigging might prove challenging, given that powerful rival factions are involved in the jockeying for parliamentary power.

He will be a powerful rival.

The scandal and Mr. Heywood's death appear to have offered critics an opening to sideline a potentially powerful rival.

He has built Rede Record, bought for $45m in 1990, into a powerful rival to Globo, the country's leading broadcaster.

Tailor-made for this purpose is the "weakly interacting massive particle," or Wimp -- the paradoxically powerful rival to the Macho.

According to investigators, the arrested officials had been passing information to the Sinaloa cartel, a more powerful rival to the Tijuana mob.

This episode is also a chilling reminder to the international community of the continuing chaos in Libya — where fighting among powerful rival local militias is on the rise.

A cutlery industry thus grew, and Sheffield emerged in the 17th century as the main provincial cutlery town and a powerful rival to London.

But both men face a powerful rival in Paul Martin, the finance minister, whose supporters control many, perhaps most, of the 301 constituency Liberal associations.

The defeat of this powerful rival sustained the Romans' acquisitive momentum, and they set their sights on the entire Mediterranean area.

Moreover, cash flow growth at USA Networks Home Shopping Networkk has been lackluster compared with that of its powerful rival, QVC.