| At one time Ani had a population of over 100,000, rivalling Baghdad and Constantinople. |
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| India in particular is a world power in its own right, rivalling the EU in influence. |
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| Sofia dailies were rivalling each other in coming out with candid photos of the two. |
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| Their many restaurants are sophisticated and serve dishes rivalling the best to be found in Europe. |
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| Increasingly, blood pressure levels among children in the age 12 range are rivalling those of obese middle-aged adults. |
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| The more modern theatre revelled in violence, in sharing traumatic indignities and violations, rivalling the slaughter on the streets, spilling blood and gore on the stage. |
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| To the extent that it has become a state within the state, rivalling the political authority. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for a speech rivalling that of the parliamentary secretary in both length and relevance. |
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| From the end of the eighteenth century onward, the rivalling North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company controlled this trade. |
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| In the financial year to March 2008 its sales reached £8 billion, almost rivalling BT's traditional business. |
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| Very few 'chanteuses' come close to rivalling Nana Mouskouri's presence on the European music scene. |
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| The Court has been used by the rivalling parties as the last resort in the legal and often political arguments. |
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| Water consumption for industrial use will also have increased by 2030 and will be rivalling that of energy production. |
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| It seems that the world and his wife now offer this service, which provides the home user a speed rivalling the internet connection you get in the office. |
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| But the album stops someway short of rivalling the classic status of its predecessor due to the fact that certain tracks feel as though the band are on auto-pilot. |
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| This quiet, friendly town is only 10 kilometres from the popular tourist resort of Ayia Napa, which is fast rivalling Ibiza as the clubbing holiday capital of Europe. |
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| If Joint Task Force 2 continues to expand, and exactly to what number from what number would open some debate and discussion, it will soon be rivalling the size of a small regiment anyway. |
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| The poets, of whom little is known, appear to have come at the close of a priestly poetical tradition, rivalling one another in allusions to obscure exploits, in language often opaque and at times intended to mystify. |
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| The result, he says, is energy costs for most Quebec greenhouse operations that represent between 20 and 30 per cent of production costs, rivalling that of labour. |
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| The policy that has been adopted could conceivably result in a high rate of growth, rivalling that of the United States, but it is unlikely to prevent social exclusion or achieve social cohesion and regional balance. |
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| This is not the hallmark of a great ambition and the Union is far from rivalling the United States or Canada with this Blue Card, assuming moreover that that is itself a laudable objective. |
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| Under such scenarios, China and to a lesser extent India will rise to the rank of global powers, rivalling the weight of America and Europe at least in economic terms. |
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| Organized Crime has discovered that the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit goods are easy ways of generating huge profits rivalling those in the drug trade but with very little risk of getting caught. |
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| Because the toner grain is smaller and homogenized, it creates a sharp dot shape and consistent half-tone image capable of rivalling offset quality. |
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| In fact, despite the technological gap between the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean, the Internet in Arab countries is now rivalling television. |
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| A Eurobarometer poll of the European Commission published at the beginning of 2006 showed that Austria has become one of the most Euro-sceptic countries in the Union, rivalling even Britons. |
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| Recent reports in the U. S. press note that the U. S. municipal bonds have a great value, rivalling the market for U. S. T-bills, with more attractive rates. |
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| Capi's owner had called Bao Sinh Dog-Cat Resort, a one-stop shop with services rivalling anything on offer to humans. |
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| Under him, the corps de ballet was recognised as rivalling and even excelling the best anywhere else in the world. |
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| By 2018 the shore of the island is expected to be studded with giant cultural institutions, each of them rivalling Sydney's famed opera house in eye-catching monumentality. |
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| Even by the crazy standards of today's art market this staggering re-evaluation of an artist's worth takes some beating, rivalling Van Gogh's dizzying ascent. |
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| Yet mainstream politicians will not see off UKIP by rivalling the populism of a party whose 2010 election manifesto amounted to £120 billion in unbudgeted spending pledges. |
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| Bombastic talk of the euro rivalling the dollar is gone. |
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| This was for many years a leading guide to the Pennine Way, rivalling the official guide book by Tom Stephenson. |
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| Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisterliness. |
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| The NFTS offers its students a studio that includes two film stages, a separate large television studio and post production facilities rivalling those of many professional companies. |
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| She knew how to tease beauty out of waxy rock, and to experience her rutabaga casserole was to partake of a miracle of transformation rivalling the one that killed my prince. |
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| Even small nations now had armies rivalling the size of the Great Powers' forces of past wars but most of these were poor quality forces only suitable for garrison duties. |
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| And after thrilling sell-out crowds in Dublin and Belfast this week they can boast about being one of the biggest boy bands around, even rivalling the likes of Westlife. |
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