Sentence examples for putative rival from inspiring English sources

Nor were matters eased by her foreign secretary, Francis Pym, being a putative rival for her leadership.

His colleague and putative rival, First Minister Arlene Foster, poured cold water on the revival of Sinn Fein's demands.

See articleSeven South American governments founded the Bank of the South, a putative rival to the IMF and the World Bank.

While his works were highly praised, he never came close to achieving the fame or book sales of his putative rival Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Despite Walter Winchell's memorable epithet for Riefenstahl — "pretty as a swastika" — she lacked the smolder of a putative rival like Dietrich, who, she might also have noted, could speak English.

Commissioned by a mysterious stranger, written on the composer's deathbed, Mozart's Requiem was enshrined in the popular imagination even before "Amadeus" cast the stranger in question as Mozart's putative rival Salieri.

And while their putative rivals are not yet on the field, the stakes have been instantly raised.

The odd feature of the antitrust complaint brought yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission is that it accused Intel of victimizing putative rivals that are also customers.

In the semi-historic final meeting between teams labeled as "New Jersey and New Yorkrk," the Knicks did not even permit their putative rivals the courtesy of a home-court advantage.

He has already taken some away, by bringing back Alan Milburn, a former health minister, to produce what Downing Street promises will be an "unremittingly New Labour" manifesto; and he seems certain to grab more after the election.The risk for Mr Brown, of course, is that one of his putative rivals might get the Treasury and supersede him as the prime minister's natural successor.

The market is so tired of government meddling in the firm that, the string of bad news notwithstanding, Petrobras shares rallied last week amid rumours that Ms Rousseff's poll lead over her putative rivals in the presidential election this autumn was shrinking.