"rival" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Scott was 'the victim of a combination of envious rivals as selfish as it is ignoble'.
- To be fair, the bumptious Barnum never claimed coinage; indeed, according to the Columbia World of Quotations, he later thanked his envious rival for the publicity.
- The frenzy has left Mr. Bush's rivals stunned, envious and, in some cases, deeply dispirited and feeling shut out, a year before the voting begins.
- By 1793, however, Lavoisier fell victim to the calumnies circulated by his envious scientific rival, Jean-Paul Marat, who was also a Jacobin pamphleteer.
- Louis B. Mayer, his apparent colleague-in-arms but also his envious rival, had told his two daughters not to get romantically interested in Irving because he'd never last.
- Court Jews frequently suffered through the denunciation of their envious rivals and co-religionists, and were often the objects of hatred of the people and the courtiers.
- There are envious rivals" - Falsythe seemed distressed at the thought - "who sometimes try to pry into our affairs by sending pretended customers here.
- She embodies the rise of London as the headquarters of global capitalism and successfully defends it from envious rivals.
- Page A1 International A3-15 Soviet entrepreneurs have it rough as they fend off obstructive bureaucrats, envious professional rivals, criminal rackets and a public that seems increasingly hostile.
- Several Soviet groups have sprung up to defend business people against Government bureaucrats, envious rivals, criminal rackets and a sometimes hostile public.
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