Rival in sentence

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Once war started, Wilhelm became Supreme War Lord, and his chief function would have been to adjudicate among rival elements within his government.

Such initiatives provide rare opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between rival communities.

It is possible that the opposition’s awkward coalition will be tested by their rival presidential dreams.

The Republicans’ presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, has also presented a radical tax plan, as did his last remaining rival, Ted Cruz.

Similarly, Sanders and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, favor effectively doing away with differential treatment of capital gains – a major reason why the richest Americans often enjoy lower rates.

Similarly, on all aspects of European defense integration within the European Union, France had long been the most ardent advocate of the sanctity of national sovereignty; her recent rapprochement to NATO was possible only because the Western Alliance, with the collapse of its old rival, has become a more traditional military pact anyway, less shaped by American leadership and more open to intergovernmental bargaining.

For example, Uganda's Idi Amin and Ethiopia's Haile Mariam Mengistu--deposed tyrants who rival Saddam in the scale of their criminality--have taken care not to stray from their shelters in Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe, respectively.

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovych, wins on February 7.

China is far more interested in focusing on the United States, its major trade partner and rival, and on South Asia and Iran, which supplies much of China’s oil and regards it as a more reliable ally than Russia.

There are legitimate concerns that Israel might use the withdrawal of US troops as a pretext to intensify its attacks on Iran and Hezbollah in Syria – a decision that could escalate into all-out regional conflict, one that draws in the US, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s main rival for regional hegemony.

What would be the repercussions of losing a historic “partner” (many Chinese today would bristle at such a description), and potentially strengthening a rival, for China’s own political system or foreign policy?

In the long term, the US and China need deeper dialogue and a shared vision for the international order, so that individual countries will not be tempted to form rival blocs among themselves.

In today’s Asia, it is impossible to manage rival ambitions through hegemony, given the size of the countries involved and the structure of their alliances.

Crisis management is no way to sustain relationships that are economically close but riddled by rival claims and bitterly contested historical narratives.

Of course, Europe’s tech sector still has its weaknesses, reflected in its failure so far to produce a tech giant to rival the behemoths of Silicon Valley.

But, whereas US antitrust law rightly focuses on whether consumers are being harmed, EU competition authorities also consider whether rival firms have lost out – including old-fashioned shopping portals, such as Ladenzeile.de,

From the Warring States period (403-221 BC) to the warlord period of the twentieth century (1916-28) – and many times in between – China’s territory has splintered into separate, rival regions.

Flug was finally offered the top job only in the absence of a male rival, though she was already occupying the position temporarily while the board searched for Stanley Fischer’s successor.

Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP’s nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.

But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.

The proxy competition among rival monarchies, which led some of them to withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar in March, is intensifying violence and instability throughout the region.

Rival currencies have risen like heavyweight contenders, only to fall back as economic conditions in their home economies became more complicated – think of the yen or the euro.

This perspective fuels the risk of the so-called Thucydides Trap, in which an established power’s fear of a rising rival leads to conflict.

Indeed, even while in office, Berlusconi consistently claimed that he was being attacked by the judiciary, by rival businessmen, by “communists,” by the political establishment.

China’s approach reflects what the Chinese general Zhang Zhaozhong this year called a “cabbage” strategy: assert a territorial claim and gradually surround the area with multiple layers of security, thus denying access to a rival.

This approach severely limits rival states’ options by confounding their deterrence plans and making it difficult for them to devise proportionate or effective counter-measures.

The pattern has become familiar: construct a dispute, initiate a jurisdictional claim through periodic incursions, and then increase the frequency and duration of such intrusions, thereby establishing a military presence or pressuring a rival to cut a deal on China’s terms.

Here, as elsewhere, China has painted its rival as the obstructionist party.

They employ a worker only if there is a surplus of his contribution over his cost and if this surplus is not smaller than the respective surplus that a rival worker in another country or a robot could generate.

Meanwhile, the Saudis do not appear to want to mediate between Shia and Sunnis, or even between rival Sunnis.

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