Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. (Jefferson).
As for India, it never likes to be too far behind its Asian rival.
His reformist rival, Mehdi Karroubi, a liberal cleric and former speaker of parliament, has also boldly attacked the incumbent.
The Burj Dubai punctures the city's skyline with its telescopic steel spire, finishing more than 300 metres higher than its nearest rival, Taiwan's Taipei 101.
But there is a subtext: despite protestations to the contrary, the new body will be a rival to the Organisation of American States, which includes the United States and Canada, but not Cuba.
然而，就在一英里之外，迪恩·博伊斯也自稱執行主席，坐在新落成的rival辦公室裏，告訴困惑的員工們不要聽從瓦斯格和他的團隊發出的指令。
He was utterly unscrupulous in his competition with rival firms.
No single wall separates East and West; no one rival superpower is aligned against us.
The Classmate PC made by Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, is arguably a direct rival to the XO.
A rival perception, however, suggests that they are more like a couple on the verge of divorce: they agree on little, and trust each other even less.
The leading theory holds that he had fled there and froze to death after being shot with a bow and arrow during a skirmish with members of a rival tribe.
Their rival company is planning a hostile takeover.
Balm of a rose can rival a variety of other balm.
If some rival upstart threatened the ruler's sleep, he would send in this rabble to wreck their wedding parties or sack their palaces.
Participation in a death car race gives you the right to cut off your rival, ram his car, hit it in the rear and do anything that is not allowed on the road.
No one can rival him in this respect.
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), a rival, decided early on not to shun the broker-dealers but to embrace them.
He read the last paragraph of “The Theologians” aloud, a passage in which a character goes to heaven, only to realize that his rival is, metaphorically, his other half.
Its rival India has long had one. Thailand has one too. Japan, another rival, has a carrier for helicopters that could be adapted for fighters.
However, many of Marvel's best-known characters already have contractual obligations to various rival media conglomerates that will not be easily or quickly undone.
No one can rival him in eloquence.
Mr Berlusconi’s defenders are blaming the newspapers, the magistrates, the foreigners and his arch-rival (and erstwhile supporter), Gianfranco Fini, for their man’s difficulties.
Trains rival politicians as a subject on which the only acceptable attitude is one of permanent disappointment, leavened with rage.
The standoff between their rival governments in Abidjan has grown increasing violent over the past week.
The job of chairman is to oversee a management team's efforts to rival the City of London.
He'll try to stay with his rival.
Then in April Mr Rudd dropped a second bombshell by announcing that none of the bids, including that from Telstra's main rival, SingTel Optus [2], was up to scratch.
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