10 sentences with “rival”

The politician made a veiled reference to his rival in his latest speech.

Charles Sorensen, Knudsen's rival in the Ford hierarchy, was too astute ... and most of the other executives went along with him.

Meanwhile, the early kings were almost certainly war leaders who led their city-states against rival city-states and foreign invaders.

The most prominent Phoenician city was Carthage in North Africa, which centuries later was to become the great rival of the Roman Republic.

To the north, beyond Mesopotamia itself (the land between the rivers), a rival state known as Assyria traded and fought against Kassite-controlled Babylon.

Philip II began a campaign throughout Macedonia and the surrounding areas to the north, defeating and usually killing his rival nobles as well as hostile tribes.

Also, the threat of invasion from both rival cities and foreigners (both 'barbarians' and more organised groups) threatened to disrupt whatever stability existed.

When rival polis fought, phalanxes from each side would clash and stab each other until one side broke, threw down its shields and ran away (by far the deadliest part of the confrontation).

Instead, after the New Kingdom, Egypt was often divided between rival claimants to the title of pharaoh, and beginning with a civilisation discussed in the next chapter, Assyria, Egypt itself was often conquered by powerful rivals.

However, they were still very effective against hapless peasants with spears, so it seems that when rival Mesopotamian city-states fought actual battles, they consisted largely of massive groups of chariots carrying archers who shot at each other.