Sentences with phrase «leadership rival becomes»

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Under his leadership, Expedia's revenues grew from $ 2.1 billion in 2005 to $ 8.7 billion in 2016, and the company became the biggest online travel agency in the US by snatching up rivals Orbitz, HomeAway, Travelocity, and Hotels.com.

It will recount how May became the front runner in the Tory leadership race when her main rival Boris Johnson dramatically dropped out after being knifed by his ally Michael Gove.

She became PM without facing a full Conservative leadership contest after her key rivals from what had been the Leave side pulled out.

We didn't see this coming until it became clear that (a) the thousands of new «# 3 members» who joined to vote in the Labour leadership election were nearly all Corbynistas, (b) Jeremy was playing to packed houses of adoring crowds everywhere he went to campaign and (c) his rivals were fighting lacklustre campaigns in comparison.