The aging inventor took out newspaper advertisements, calling his would-be rival out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun] Reference

There is certainly no shortage of would-be martyrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Vs. Terror] Reference

These are unsettling times for would-be physicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future Shock For Med Students] Reference

Yet would-be visitors face difficult moral questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Good To Be True] Reference

Some would-be workers also resent having to pay the extra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Wait] Reference

Try GreatPlateExchange. com, the would-be eBay of vanity plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [ONLINE: TRADING PLATES] Reference

Why walk? dailycandy. com: Cheat sheet for would-be urban hipsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyberscope] Reference

The would-be czar of this new global energy elite is Vladimir Putin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Energy Wars] Reference

But that was not the worst news for would-be monitors of cyberspace.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Place For Kids?] Reference

Resumes poured in from would-be Powell pollsters and media consultants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why He Got Out] Reference

My would-be assassin may yet determine how and when I die but not how I live.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Won't Let Fear Stop Me] Reference

It requires a Christ-like forbearance to pardon a would-be assassin, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgive And Let Live] Reference

The resulting Tower of Babel has good news and bad news for would-be populists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enter the Foxulists] Reference

In corporate America these days, the breakfast of would-be champions is dog food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Power Breakfast] Reference

For would-be visitors, that means the waiting probably won't be over anytime soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Wait] Reference

Their newly hand-made parabolas line entire Kabul streets, luring would-be buyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Kabul, Part 2: Tv Hunting] Reference

I'm sure such an argument will be made by some of his would-be successors inside Labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voting For Peace?] Reference

Nasrallah is at once a militia leader and a would-be leader of global Islamic radicalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best-Laid Plans] Reference

Soon other would-be authors were sending Stringer manuscripts, and Triple Crown was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [IT'S GANGSTA LIT] Reference

In fact, isn't the point of the would-be criminal to stand in opposition to social cohesion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: Thugs Are People, Too] Reference

Many more would-be immigrants brave the Mediterranean in fragile wooden boats or rusty scows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Time Bomb] Reference

Out back is the yacht Granma, in which Castro and 82 would-be rebels first landed from Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For A Revolution] Reference

What made the quiet librarian ultimately fall for the backslapping businessman and would-be pol?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Calm Amid The Storm] Reference

No journalist could turn down the offer: a face-to-face interview with would-be suicide bombers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone, Afraid, In the Company of Men Dreaming of Death] Reference

Well, there are some Democratic reasons for running, reasons common to all the would-be candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: Is Bush Unbeatable In 2004 Election?] Reference

Already on the southern fringes of the European Union, would-be laborers sometimes storm the gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Time Bomb] Reference

In 1995, the Park Service began screening all would-be climbers, but novices still slip through the cracks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangling At 19,000 Feet] Reference

About 300 would-be demonstrators were in the building at the time; all were ordered out and several were arrested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Ready For 'Seattle Ii'] Reference

For the would-be Masters of the Universe looking to enrich and empower themselves, day trading looked simple and profitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters Of Their Own Universe?] Reference

For weeks the Taliban told the volunteers to stay put -- "don't call us, we'll call you" was the message to would-be martyrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing A Long, Cold War] Reference

A recent study by CNW Marketing Research showed that 32 percent of would-be GM buyers were scared off by the fear of bankruptcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Ford Pull Ahead?] Reference

In fact, Williams rebukes his own poetic nature in a scene where Jim, a would-be writer, attacks "" literary punks '' like Keats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Menagerie] Reference

As would-be terror atrocities go, the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow were evidentiary goldmines for British police.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's to Blame?] Reference

In the poorest neighborhoods, would-be employees often lack even "soft" skills, such as how to follow orders or get to work on time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yup: Help Wanted] Reference

So given my proximity to these would-be terrorists, I decided to drop by my friends 'houses to do a little Operation Tips-type snooping.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: My Terrorist Friends] Reference

Orchestras in actual or would-be Olympic cities -- Melbourne, Australia; Atlanta, and Salt Lake -- have signed her up as a guest artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [No More Fun And Games] Reference

And what a Babel: 113 delegates, plus reps from the 13 would-be members of Europe, holding forth in all 11 working languages of the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Founding Fathers] Reference