7 sentences with 'rivals'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rivals and other words derived from it.
• « Each empire fought with its rivals at times, but also worked with them to protect trade routes. »
• « In turn, Sparta and Athens were, especially in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, rivals for the position of the most powerful polis in Greece. »
• « During the Classical Age, the Carthaginians, Phoenician naval rivals of the Greeks, maintained a strong naval garrison in the Strait of Gibraltar (the narrow gap between North Africa and southern Spain, between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean), which prevented Greek sailors from reaching the Atlantic and thus limited their direct knowledge of the outside world. »
• « Alexander the Great first ruthlessly killed his rivals and enemies in Macedonia and Greece, executing nobles he suspected of treachery, and then led an army through Macedonia, crushing the northern Thracian tribes that threatened to defect. »
• « However, they also clashed with each other, and the Ptolemies and Seleucids became particularly bitter rivals, frequently fighting over the territories that divided their empires. »
• « The Greeks held that the two ways in which a man could overcome his rivals and assert his virtue were battle and public argument and argumentation. »