Sentence examples for rival current from inspiring English sources

Although the positivist mood prevailed at least until World War I, it was contested by a rival current of thought that from the 1890s onward began to assert itself.

Muhammadu Buhari has just been elected as the next president of Nigeria by a margin of more than 2m votes because on the issues that mattered to Nigerians, he had more credibility than his rival, current president Goodluck Jonathan.

Santander, Halifax and Nationwide Building Society are currently winning the biggest share of the UK's current account switchers while Barclays and NatWest are losing the most customers to rival current account providers.

He was speaking after his rival, current President Abdoulaye Wade, admitted defeat in Sunday's run-off.

De Blasio pointed to Spitzer's rival, current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, as his choice for comptroller instead, adding that Stringer possessed "real integrity".

Finally, in a closely watched race, the Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, has made her argument that the state should sue the investment banks--like Texas and many other states did successfully against tobacco companies in the 1990s--a 1990s--a 1990s--ath her Republicampaignl, current Attorney General Greg Abbott.

(To this day, the party contains rival currents and groupings which actually use some of these labels).To these were added some extreme-left Social Democrats who defected in bitterness and disgust after the SPD enacted labour-market reforms under Gerhard Schröder, Mrs Merkel's predecessor.

As a statement of intent, an early scene where Peggy navigates the New York throng in a smartly tailored red, white and blue ensemble is a strong start, and she rivals current champ Taylor Swift in the deployment of her red lipstick – as both fashion statement and spy gadget.

Such results are extremely promising, and shall be reported at a later date, but suggest infrared micro-spectral imaging can provide a sensitivity and specificity that rivals current screening protocols.

That, she said, is what she and her former rival, and current boss, did.

The deal valued Supercell at roughly the same level as Zynga, an American rival, whose current market capitalization is around $3 billion.