Sentence examples for serious rivals from inspiring English sources

Mr Saakashvili has bolstered the presidency's powers; his party has a huge parliamentary majority; and he has no serious rivals.

Still, Mr Brown is popular and faces no serious rivals, so it is a good time to start.

Mr. Karzai is widely expected to win the election, with no serious rivals seen emerging to challenge him.

All major leagues are now multinational, albeit not to the degree the Premier League is, but two of them, Serie A and Ligue 1, are not serious rivals.

In the intervening years, smartphones and tablets have become much more serious rivals for a share of consumer spending on technology.

Tennyson's ascendancy among Victorian poets began to be questioned even during his lifetime, however, when Robert Browning and Algernon Charles Swinburne were serious rivals.

For the first time, al-Jazeera has a serious, dangerous rival.

Meanwhile, the president's most serious rival remains Sarath Fonseka.

Ms Macleod maintains that Labour is her only serious rival.

Peres wisely refused, leaving Netanyahu without a serious rival.

He begins to look like a serious rival".