Then began the famous rivalries between the great nobles, rivalries out of which were born the political parties of the times, in which the Guises, the Montmorencys, and the famous Châtillon brothers figure so prominently.
Again, then, we hail your advent among us; and we may express the hope that your connexion with this enterprize will be sufficiently prolonged to place you in competition with other rivalries in the same honourable strife.
Thunders of applause from the English soldiers, as well as from the citizens and peasants, showed how far the love of brave and knightly deeds could rise above the rivalries of race.
The king began trying to set them by the ears; and out of these rivalries and intrigues, with the help of a Presbyterian army from Scotland, there arose the second Civil War.
The Powers of Europe were, in fact, too bitterly divided by rivalries and quarrels of their own, either to combine for the purpose of suppressing Mohammedan piracy, or even to allow one another to act with energy.
Then, too, the Royalists knew very well that time would be required to accustom France to the idea of a King, and to adjust the keenrivalries between the older and the younger branches of the Bourbon House.
We have no space in which to detail the rivalries of French and British missionaries and agents at the Court of King M'tesa and his successor M'wanga, or the futile attempt of Dr.
The dissensions and rivalries of the Federal leaders added to their discomfiture.
The rivalriesand jealousies among the great leaders of the revolutionary period are a blot on our history.
Even those of most enlarged national sympathies and purposes accepted the fact of sectional rivalries and combinations as fundamental in their policies.
Should the political rivalries and wars of Europe to acquire territory be excluded from the western hemisphere?
In the rivalriesof their leaders these sectional differences found political expression.
There they see no promise save the same exploitation, the same poverty, the same inequality and the same wars over the commercial rivalries of the imperial nations.
Economic rivalries are the basis of modern wars and economic rivalries are the warp and woof of capitalism.
To-day the rivalries are economic--in the fields of commerce and industry and finance.
The same rivalries that preceded 1914 are more active in the world to-day than ever before.
As economic rivalries increase, competition in military and naval preparation will come as a matter of course.
Thus one of the principal causes of European rivalries and animosities is about to cease.
Besides, we may hereafter expect rivalriesamong the members of the Union.
The rivalries of Pylades and Bathyllus occupied the Romans as much as the gravest affairs of state.
He not only knew the people, but he knew all about them, their personal idiosyncrasies, their rivalriesand jealousies.
Their hopes and fears, their rivalries and ambitions were, in truth, about the same.
It was due, perhaps, to the commercial rivalries of myself and Mr. Hardy, in whose house you are staying.
Rivalries might be keen and colonial boundary questions acute; nevertheless, in their calmer moments, the white peoples felt that the expansion of one white nation buttressed the expansion of all.
The so-called "independence" of brown states has long been due more to white rivalries than to their own inherent strength.
Jealous rivalries and mad ambitions smouldered till they burst into a consuming flame.
The history of the Opera in England is, more than in any other country, the history of feuds and rivalries between theatres and singers.
These rivalries between singers have occasioned, in various countries and at various times, a good many foolish verses and mots.
The long-continued struggles and rivalries that have led to the present subdivision of territory pertain to history, and although full of interest from the point of view of the geographer, cannot be discussed in the present treatise.
But the Morgan experts knew that if the four men were allowed to meet, the old hurtfulrivalries would break out afresh and the project might snap off like a broken dream.
Among these different types of reapers, and the numerous variations of each type, the bitterest rivalries prevailed.
Its earliest annals contain little else than the accounts of rivalries under Lord Carlisle's patent and other patents.
To-day it is the traditions which used to obtain in politics, and the individual tendencies and rivalries of rulers which do not count; while, on the contrary, the voice of the masses has become preponderant.
Scarcely a century ago the traditional policy of European states and the rivalries of sovereigns were the principal factors that shaped events.
For a woman to dream that she is displeased with her apparel, foretells that she will find many vexatious rivalries in her quest for social distinction.
To dream of a custom-house, denotes you will have rivalries and competition in your labors.
Since then, as the result of industrial progress, there have arisen in one country and another, rivalries which are every day growing more bitter.
On the contrary, the terrible industrial and commercial rivalries growing up around us indicate future conflicts, and there is nothing to assure us that France will not one day find herself involved in a great European or world conflagration.
Many in our time have come to think that civilization must reach a better way of composing the rivalries of the nations.
Political Unrest--the Arming of the Nations Following on closely with the signs in the heavens, there appears also the awakening to national aspirations and rivalries in Europe, out of which has grown the arming of the nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rivalries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
