Sentence examples for their common rival from inspiring English sources

Their common rival, the Soviet Union, took two decades to collapse.

To thwart Trotsky he entered into an alliance with Grigory Zinovyev and Lev Kamenev, forming with them a "triumvirate" that dominated the Politburo and isolated their common rival.

The two parties had hoped that their superior organisation and finances would win them enough momentum in last Sunday's elections to help them beat off their common rival in the presidential vote on December 6th.

In the year of Kamatari's death, the emperor conferred on him the new family name of Fujiwara ("Wisteria Arbour"), in commemoration of the place where the two had conspired to oust their common rival.

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft's four-month-long courtship of Yahoo has finally thrown Yahoo into the arms of their biggest common rival, Google.

From the outside they are united by a common rival.

Until now, these types have tended to be at war with one another – the battle of the high street against the mall has been going for decades – and they still are, even though they all have a common rival in the internet.

And the key to the chamber is alliances, in which like-minded parties back one another's candidates to avoid splitting the vote against a common rival.Half the respondents to our survey agreed with the statement: "We should be loyal to our own region first and then to India".

Go into battle against a common rival.

At the moment, the one big common rival in both of those scenarios is Amazon.

Both Instacart and these grocery chains have a common rival, Amazon, which is not only natively a digital commerce company, with all the logistics firepower that comes with that, but it has specifically made huge leaps in its own food delivery ambitions, first when it launched its own Prime-friendly Pantry and Fresh lines, and second when it acquired and expanded Whole Foods.