Sentence examples for rival circuit from inspiring English sources

Other promoters, notably Lincoln, began to break the Joint Promotions stranglehold in the 1960s, and Hayes joined the rival circuit.

It is no small irony that at the same time that Rickey was trying to wedge his league into the majors, Lamar Hunt, spurned by the National Football League, was forming his own, rival circuit: the American Football League.

With that contingency still in play, the Grand Slam leaders and the I.T.F. could feel compelled to create a contingency plan of their own: a rival circuit independent from the ATP.

"It makes no sense if you compact 34 cars into basically what amounts to less than half a mile," said John Chuhran, a longtime racing writer and the former spokesman for the rival CART circuit.

Bunting switched from the British Darts Organisation to the rival Professional Darts Corporation circuit in January, less than two weeks after his success at Frimley Green.

Who won his first BDO World Darts title in January, switching to the rival PDC circuit less than a fortnight later?

One analyst who wishes to remain anonymous thinks that Solectron will have to get even more aggressive if it wants to keep up with rival Jabil Circuit, which recently acquired GET Manufacturing of Mountain View, Calif., a contract electronics manufacturer with multiple plants in China.

It was founded in 1996 by Tony George, the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, who broke away from a rival open-wheel circuit known as CART, for Championship Auto Racing Teams.

In 2009, Bagnell said, he and other twitchers were aghast when two elderly rivals on the circuit went for each other's throats.

Betz Addie and Moran (Gorgeous Gussie in the news media) became circuit rivals, Betz Addie wearing leopard print short-shorts to compete with Moran's famous lacy panties, which had caused an international stir at Wimbledon in 1949.

Roy and Rawlings are friends and longtime rivals on the rally circuit.