Sentence examples for rival claimant from inspiring English sources

There is in India a rival claimant to the incarnation, with some influential backers.

Thus, when the duke of Burgundy died without an heir (1002), Robert went to war against a rival claimant.

The election of Damasus as pope was immediately challenged by a minority who supported a rival claimant, Ursinus.

Between 1461 and 1466 he was at the court of René, duke d'Anjou, rival claimant to the throne of Naples.

A rival claimant, Charles of Durazzo, took over Sicily and had Joan murdered before Louis could come to her aid.

Ms. Guerrero was Roland Pacheco's girlfriend and is the mother of his son and now, a rival claimant.

(There have been a few rival claimants).

Mahmud began by curbing the power of rival claimants.

It prefers to pick off rival claimants one by one.

China insists that negotiations with rival claimants must be bilateral.

On his death in 1553, the Sūr dynasty broke up among rival claimants.