Sentence examples for professional rival from inspiring English sources

But his professional rival, Steve Jobs, knew that years ago.

"HEDDA GABLER" -- Martha Plimpton as Ibsen's ruthless heroine who drives her husband's professional rival to suicide.

Envious hostility toward a professional rival is more like an embarrassing body function: please do not share.

Mikami and a professional rival have a competitive history in martial arts, which is significant to the levels of respect in their relationship.

His ostensible purpose is to liberate a vast new source of thermodynamic energy, but he seems more immediately concerned with convincing his new bride (Janette Scott) that she made the right choice in picking him over his handsome young colleague and professional rival (Kieron Moore).

Hedda Gabler Tesman may do enormous damage — to the stuffy, harmless pedant she married; to Eilert Lovborg, his professional rival and her former admirer; and to Thea Elvsted, the old school friend whose frantic arrival at the Tesman home sets the plot in motion.

For one thing, the men are more than professional rivals.

He harassed his professional rivals, and kept the gags coming.

They start out as friends and fellow apprentices, but quickly become bitter personal and professional rivals.

Husbands, wives, parents, children, professional rivals, all fighting for any scrap of power they can get over one another.

Even so, it is one thing to wow professional critics, but quite another to leave your professional rivals grasping for superlatives.