rival

rival
01. Larry's main [rival] for the job is a woman who works in another department.
02. The [rivalry] between the two brothers guaranteed that each boy always did his best, in an effort to outdo the other.
03. Police fear violence will explode between the [rival] gangs as a result of the murder.
04. The winner was almost a full minute ahead of his nearest [rival] in the competition.
05. The area has been torn by ethnic [rivalry] between the Serbs and the Kosovars.
06. Regular videos cannot [rival] the picture quality of a DVD.
07. The former [rivals] are now teammates on the national squad.
08. There is a Hebrew proverb which states that [rivalry] between scholars advances wisdom.
09. There is a Turkish proverb which states that there is no rose without a thorn, and no love without a [rival].
10. Benjamin Franklin once observed that he that falls in love with himself will have no [rivals].
11. Pope John Paul II once stated, "We thus denounce the false and dangerous programme of the arms race, of the secret [rivalry] between peoples for military superiority."
12. In 1933, the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany, and by 1934, Hitler had all his [rivals] assassinated, and had total control of Germany.
13. Nuclear [rivals] India and Pakistan are holding talks to bring an end to hostilities in the region.
14. Police have said they believe the murder of the leader of the motorcycle gang is in retaliation for the death of two members of a [rival] gang last month.
15. Although Nigeria was created because of European ambitions and [rivalries] in West Africa, its peoples had a rich history before the colonial borders were defined.
16. In 1873, the [rival] cities of Buda and Pesth were joined together to form the capital city of Hungary.
17. In the 1800s, Afghanistan became a battleground in the [rivalry] between czarist Russia and imperial Britain for control of Central Asia.
18. Ethnic [rivalries] have sparked recent violent clashes in China.
19. The [rivalry] between the Eastern and Western churches of Europe reached a crisis in 1054.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • rival — rival …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • rival — rival, ale, aux [ rival, o ] n. et adj. • 1636; « rival en amour » XVe; lat. rivalis « rival », de rivales « les riverains, qui tirent leur eau du même cours d eau (rivus) » I ♦ N. 1 ♦ Personne qui prétend aux avantages, aux biens qu un seul peut …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • rival — RIVÁL, Ă, rivali, e s.m. şi f. Persoană care aspiră, în concurenţă directă cu alta, la aceeaşi situaţie, la acelaşi succes; concurent, potrivnic, adversar. ♦ Persoană care aspiră împreună cu alta la dragostea aceleiaşi persoane de sex opus. ♦… …   Dicționar Român

  • rival — rival, ale (ri val, va l ) s. m. et f. 1°   Celui, celle qui aspire, qui prétend aux mêmes avantages qu un autre. •   Corrival.... est devenu vieux ; on ne dit plus que rival, qui aussi est bien plus doux et plus court, VAUGEL. Rem. t. II, p. 577 …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • rival — RIVAL, [rival]e. s. Concurrent en amour. Ils recherchent tous deux une mesme maistresse, une mesme fille, ils sont rivaux. voilà vostre rival. un dangereux rival, un foible rival. il a supplanté tous ses rivaux. elle a une belle rivale, une… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Rival — Ri val, a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. [1913 Webster] The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rival — vb 1 Rival, compete, vie, emulate can all mean to strive to equal or surpass another or his achievements. Rival (see also MATCH) usually suggests an attempt to outdo each other {a work . . . which contending sects have rivaled each other in… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Rival — Ri val, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rivaled}or {Rivalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rivaling} or {Rivalling}.] 1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. [1913 Webster] 2. To strive to equal or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rival — [adj] opposing battling, combatant, combating, competing, competitive, conflicting, contending, contesting, cutthroat, disputing, emulating, emulous, equal, opposed, striving, vying; concepts 542,564 Ant. assisting, associate, supporting rival… …   New thesaurus

  • rival — [rī′vəl] n. [Fr < L rivalis, orig., one living near or using the same stream as another < rivus, brook < IE * reie , to flow < base * er : see RISE] 1. a person who tries to get or do the same thing as another, or to equal or surpass… …   English World dictionary

  • Rival — Ri val, n. [F. rival (cf. It. rivale), L. rivales two neigbors having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a brook, fr. rivus a brook. Cf. {Rivulet}, {Rete}.] 1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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