Sentence examples for violent rivals from inspiring English sources

Chandor's film stars Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales, a New York businessman trying to build a heating oil empire, and coming up against violent rivals as well as law enforcement.

"They were the business equivalent of the street gang, and McBride's salary depended on how well he organized his newsboys to avoid losing their corners to one or more violent rivals".

But he is the best partner Israel has, and Mr. Netanyahu's belligerence, including the settlement activity, increases the stature of Hamas, Mr. Abbas's violent rival.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the attack, but the area is home to violent rival gangs often involved in drug trafficking.

Although the Soviet Union suppressed most expression of political opinion until the late 1980s, domination by a central authority protected the basic human rights of some groups from violent rival minorities.

While it is plausible that Homo sapiens owed much of its rapid brain evolution to natural selection's favoring individuals that were smart enough to defeat their human rivals in violent competition, it is also plausible that we became highly intelligent because selection favored those of our ancestors who were especially adroit at communicating and cooperating.

"We saw [notoriously violent Brownsville rivals] the Hoodstarz and the Wave gang, they would go out and compete for money," Palmer told the crowd.

Another clue that testosterone is not the whole story here is that teenage girls, while not as violent, certainly rival boys for downright bloody-mindedness during their adolescent years.

At professional meetings, peace often reigns because the adherents of the different schools go their separate ways; but occasionally there are (intellectually) violent clashes, rivaling the tumult that greeted Derrida's nomination for an honorary degree at Cambridge in 1992.

For two days in a row, the New York Post has warned that -- with NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy in question -- New York could soon become beset with an increase in violent crime rivaling that of Chicago.

His more violent followers prevented rivals from campaigning in almost a third of the country, and murdered several of them.