9 sentences with 'rivalry'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rivalry and other words derived from it.
• « From then on, rivalry and assassination remained an essential part of royal intrigue, but it was now carried out by assassins, and royal suitors who were killed were unlikely to be effective even if they survived. »
• « His plan was to use the rivalry between France and Austria to his advantage by getting France to support some form of Italian independence from Austria in order to weaken the Habsburgs. »
• « From this point on, the great powers of Europe were in open competition with each other, fearing and resenting each other more than they feared the revolutionary forces within - one manifestation of this new rivalry was the wars that saw the birth of Italy and Germany, described above. »
• « The most significant background factor of World War I was the rivalry that existed between the "great powers" of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. »
• « Not only had conservative elites appropriated nationalism to shore up their own power (as in Italy and Germany), but nationalist patriotism came to be identified with rivalry and resentment among many citizens of various political persuasions. »
• « Thanks to the nationalist rivalry described above, the great powers sought to shore up their security and power through alliances. These alliances were firmly in place by 1914, each of which obliged military action if any power was attacked. »
• « The term "Cold War" refers to the decades-long rivalry between the two post-war "superpowers", the United States and the Soviet Union. This was a conflict that, fortunately for the human race, never became a "hot" war. »
• « If one analyses how the conflict was built up within the group, it is likely to be discovered that power struggles are its origin and that, in reality, it expresses the existence of jealousy, competition or rivalry. »
• « The arrival of Columbus in 1492 accelerated the rivalry between Spain and Portugal, and the two powers competed for dominance through the acquisition of new lands. »