Sentence examples for a longstanding power from inspiring English sources

It lies in a region around the city of Kirkuk, an area of vast potential oil wealth that is at the center of a longstanding power struggle between Kurds and Arabs.

PAGE A12 RAID ON UKRAINE ENERGY COMPANY Security agents raided the offices of Ukraine's state energy company in what appeared to be an escalation of a longstanding power struggle at the highest levels of the Ukrainian government.

The expected Kuwaiti move, part of an effort to sideline Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, a member of the Gulf state's ruling family and one of world sports' most powerful men, and his brother, Sheikh Talal Al-Fahad, the head of Kuwait's National Olympic Committee (NOC), is the latest episode in a longstanding power struggle that has played out in Kuwaiti courts and international sports.

To me (and most others, I am willing to bet), the A.C.A. is fairly straightforward and uncontroversial application of this longstanding power.

The federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) fell short both because it operated in disregard of the States longstanding power to define marriage, and by means of that disregard, treated gay couples as second class or inferior contrary to the equal protection obligations all States must observe.

The merchants of the bazaar, a longstanding pillar of the mullahs' power, still protect their own cartels.

However, a longstanding tax credit for wind power that has broad bipartisan support was snagged on presidential politics after Senate Republicans removed it to show their loyalty to their presumed presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

A longstanding tax credit for wind power that has broad bipartisan support was caught Wednesday in presidential politics when Senate Republicans removed it from a usually routine package of business tax breaks to show their loyalty to their presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

When McCain later had to explain his comment because it was tremendously awful, he cited a longstanding, ugly truth of American power: we occupy a lot of countries.

As a longstanding, stable democracy, it has moral power.

Last week, he declared that he would suspend constitutional amendments allowing him to remain in power for life, a longstanding demand of the Islamist-led opposition, and promised that his son would not inherit his rule.