Sentence examples for rival fleet from inspiring English sources

After all, the company he now leads was formed when Mr. Gifford sold the venerable BankBoston, which he had led for nearly five years, to his rival, Fleet, in 1999.

Who that person might be appeared to be a secondary concern for most of those queuing to vote, though a rival fleet of megaphone-touting, poster-plastered Suzuki trucks made endless laps of the school building throughout the day in a cacophonous effort to convince them otherwise.

As soon as the new group are satisfied I'm not from a rival fleet they continue their conversation.

Similarly, air passengers have a choice of competing airlines and are far more likely to be aware of the merits of rival fleets than they are of different types of train.

And with fresh assertions that a foreign submarine was possibly involved in a collision with the Kursk, Russian officials betrayed some of the frustration and mistrust that were the hallmark of the cold war, even as an extraordinary collaboration among British, Norwegian and Russian sailors unfolded in the Arctic sea famous as a secret venue for rival fleets.

Most rivals on Fleet Street think this paper has also been selective in its embrace of freedom of expression, siding as it did with advocates of greater regulation of the British press.

Iceland has kicked off its EU accession negotiations saying it will not tolerate competition from rival fishing fleets in its waters.

Though China still has miles to go in developing a carrier fleet to rival America's, the landing demonstrates its ambitions.

Among the American automakers, Ford is improving its cars' reliability, and some of its fleet now rival top Japanese cars.

He says he has not ruled out introducing charges for the tablet editions, as most Fleet Street rivals do, but not in the short term.

The bus, by contrast, is rarely seen as anything other than a lumbering, lurching, coughing cousin of its fleeter subterranean rival.