Sentence examples for rival attractions from inspiring English sources

So: weather, recession, rival attractions – that's all as expected.

That could hardly last, and cricket has since lost ground against the rival attractions of sports like soccer and basketball.

His feeble showing at the election was due mainly to the rival attractions of another northerner to whom many northern federalists switched their support: Mr Berlusconi.

Despite rival attractions on the track, the entire stadium urged on the trio of Chinese jumpers who were pursuing Rutherford, along with the Australian Fabrice Lapierre.

The Prodigy and Chase & Status's testosterone-fuelled techno was thrillingly brutalist enough to distract fans from rival attractions with names like Nightwish and Axe Wound.

And like all children their age, the rival attractions of CBBC and computer games do sometimes prevent them getting off the sofa and venturing outside.

Traders reported volumes were thin, however, with the rival attraction of Ascot well underway.

The rival attraction, the Church of St . Johann Baptist has something the Cologne Cathedral cannot match: a leaning tower.

Overall the FTSE 100 finished 31.18 points higher at 5163.68, despite the rival attraction of the opening of the World Cup.

Yet as the only rival attraction yesterday was the medical inspection of the three-day event participants (horses, not riders), it seemed beyond bizarre to deny the sport its biggest moment on these shores since 1066.

Firstly, they do not want this soap opera to become a rival attraction to a World Cup still being hosted by England, hence the insistence that there will be no rush to blame.