Sentence examples for rival states from inspiring English sources

Rival states replaced its congenially porous old empires.

Folks in Michigan, a birthplace of carmaking, hate watching new car plants open in rival states.

(The king has not finished subsuming all rival states and creating the Qin empire).

Thereafter, as the Zhou empire was broken up among rival states, many local styles in the arts developed.

Football teams are inherently divided, with the offense and the defense existing like rival states within the same country.

Saudis and Iranians employ hateful rhetoric - Safavids versus Wahhabis - as a vehicle for the competition of rival states.

In addition, the bank's performance has lagged behind that of its chief rival, State Street.

There is an effort to broadcast television signals into Libya to rival state TV.

Such a move would end speculation that Worldwide could merge with Channel 4 to create a rival state-funded organisation.

Eventually Babylon established a lasting national state in the south, while Ashur dominated a similar rival state, Assyria, in the north.

Mr. Houghton's remarks — and the speed limit that inspired them — have been rendered moot, though not by a rival state.