Sentence examples for would vie for from inspiring English sources
Regional powers would vie for pre-eminence and assert their historic claims.
"If you were sat round a fire, or in a house, people would vie for attention.
Instead of competing in a sprint for cash, candidates would vie for votes.
When an order came in from Penberton, the drivers would vie for the chance to deliver it.
Young men in striped jackets and boaters would vie for the affections of equally WASPy young women.
Distinguished Slavists from around the world would vie for custody, debating how best to raise the tiny poets.
He recently told Entertainment Weekly that he'd enjoyed studying "Paradise Lost" in college, and that he'd vied for the role of Satan for three years, even filming an unsolicited audition in his kitchen.
Pack leadership also included wolf 754M, the beta male (755M's brother), who'd vied for 832F's admiration and then helped the alpha pair care for their pups.
In a general election contest with Mr. Trump, however, Mrs. Clinton would vie with him for the loyalties of white voters in a number of battleground states where support for gun rights runs deep.
Still, religious scholars are talking openly about the prospect of an invigorated, more moderate center of Shiite Islam developing in Najaf that would vie with Qom for seminarians, the most prestigious scholars and ultimate authority in the Shiite world.
At Guinegate the Landsknechte showed their mettle and would vie with the Swiss Reisläufer for primacy on the battlefield for more than a century.
