Sentence examples for stepping up rivalry from inspiring English sources

The Patrick Corporation, Australia's No. 1 port cargo handler, agreed to buy half of Richard Branson's discount carrier Virgin Blue for at least 260 million Australian dollars ($136 million), stepping up rivalry in the aviation market.

They are really stepping up.

Now Microsoft is stepping up.

As the United States and China step up their rivalry in Southeast Asia, Indonesia — officially hewing to a longstanding foreign policy of nonalignment but leaning closer to Washington — represents by far the biggest prize in a region caught uneasily between China's rise and America's renewed engagement.

The rivalry between Mr. Green and Mr. Hevesi stepped up yesterday over what it meant to be a Democrat.

In the course of the spring of 1866 both sides stepped up their preparations for a military solution to the Austro-Prussian rivalry.

We stepped up.

Who will step up?

Everyone stepped up.

Will he step up?

Guys stepped up, everybody stepped up.