Tom is my rival.

Even if the competition is the old way of doing something.

I realized that my real competition was the beaver.

SHANGHAI The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.

For their members, international competition is a major threat as imports or immigrants may cut the wages of less skilled workers.

For unions, the new right is a competitive challenge for support.

This year, BNP s great rival, Société Générale, has been in the spotlight.

It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the US.

Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited because it owned 8.4 million shares of Google before the IPO took place.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3.0 the following year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

What an irony a currency designed to challenge the dollar for supremacy among global currencies, now needs US assistance to stop its meltdown.

By January 2007, Blu ray Discs had outsold HD DVDs, and during the first three quarters of 2007, BD outsold HD DVD by about two to one.

Airbus says its rival is sticking to a seat concept from the 1950s, when the average girth of the newly christened jet set was narrower.

Kerry's remaining competitor, John Edwards, talks about how the gap on trade between him and Kerry is wide and deep with Kerry on the free trade side.

He was such a freak and that clipboard probably saved his life, because they figured no other rival gang member would be coming up to shoot at them with a clipboard.

Brazil's Embraer SA, the world's third largest commercial planemaker and Bombardier's closest rival, reported a 10 percent fall in quarterly profit on Thursday.

By 2015, Wanda plans to outfit all of its shopping centres, hotels, and recreational facilities with e commerce services, the development of which Alibaba, now established as a competitor, will also be engaged in.

Rival Sunrise, hosted by David Koch and Samantha Armytage, was stuck in London as part of a week long series of international telecasts which also include Dubai, New York, Niagara Falls and Cancun.

Warner's newly formed Independent Liberal Party received 12,631 votes the United National Congress (the party of the current Prime Minister), the ILP's closest rival and the party which Warner formerly chaired, garnered just 5,126 votes.

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovich, wins on February 7.

But his half brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovych, wins on February 7.

The Dalian local government constructed an elaborate software development park à la Silicon Valley, where students returning from abroad can rent low cost office space for startup companies.

Video Lossy Theora based upon On2's VP3, it is targeted at competing with MPEG 4 video (for example, encoded with DivX or Xvid), RealVideo, or Windows Media Video.

Airbus this week called for an industry standard that would provide for a seat at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide in economy cabins, but its U.S. arch rival Boeing says it should be for airlines to decide.