Sentence examples for take on rivals from inspiring English sources

The transaction was a rare chance for Robert E. Diamond Jr., the American president of Barclays, to take on rivals like Morgan Stanley.

Bertelsmann A.G., Europe's largest media company, said today that it was reorganizing its Bol.com online bookseller unit to help it take on rivals like Amazon.com and prepare for further expansion.

Stotus, a team made up of White House staff members, gathered on humid summer evenings last year to take on rivals like the Democratic National Committee and then would sometimes celebrate with snacks and drinks afterward at local restaurants and bars.

As part of its strategy to take on rivals, Sainsbury's said it would reduce spending and profitability.

Saints take on rivals and Super League leaders Wigan at the Magic Weekend in Manchester on Sunday evening, knowing that a win will nove them to within three points of the Warriors.

It provides evidence that Square, founded back in 2009, may finally, quietly be starting to turn on its first services in Europe, and specifically the UK, to take on rivals like iZettle, SumUp and Paypal, and expand beyond Square's existing footprint in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Australia.

In it, Rodin takes on rivals from the past and battles with the inner power of sculpture itself.

This is where six players form a club that takes on rivals and stamp their driving supremacy all over Sony's servers.

Amazon has launched its own music-streaming service in the US, taking on rivals such as Spotify and Google.

The deal means Apple Music will now be well-placed to take on rival service Spotify, which recently announced it had reached 20 million paid subscribers, a number Apple hopes to cut into by opening Music to everyone at launch.

The company had eschewed making iPhones with larger screens until last year, and the decision to take on rival Samsung and others with a larger smartphone appears to have paid off.