Sentence examples for unlikely rivals from inspiring English sources
Mr. Geithner and Mr. Summers emerged quickly as the unlikely rivals for the post.
The unlikely rivals shook hands and slapped backs, exchanging pleasantries and barbs as they warmed up for a game some had crossed the country to play.
But the emergence of unlikely rivals in the mobile game market — the iPhone and iPod Touch, both by Apple — have raised the pressure for Nintendo to launch a new game system.
Gus Poyet's side had their feathers ruffled in midweek with a painful defeat to unlikely rivals Crystal Palace but took the lead through the former Valencia winger Vicente, scoring for the Seagulls on his first start.
But recent footage shows they have some unlikely rivals - dogs.
While the nation's best-known retail chains are pulling out all the stops to lure shoppers and bolster their abysmal sales, their customers are defecting to an unlikely rival: the local thrift shop.
Brazil is experiencing a full-fledged rodeo boom, and while city dwellers may view the phenomenon as a bizarre foreign import and an unlikely rival to soccer, the view from the vast interior is very different.
His unlikely rival in the same, western half of a still-divided city was Herbert von Karajan, nearly 80, silver-haired and impeccably tailored, with most of his achievements as music director of the illustrious Berlin Philharmonic already in the past.
The Swede may now have an unlikely rival in the warped arthouse comedy stakes, however, in Bruno Dumont – an auteur whose particular brand of Bressonian severity has hitherto yielded about as much wry humour as the Little Red Book.
Even as NetApp attacks EMC from below, it is being chased by an unlikely rival that makes an even lower-cost solution: Microsoft.
