Sentence examples for a power battle from inspiring English sources

In reality though it was simply a power battle in which the most powerful country won and the others — the USSR and its supporters excepted — were compelled to accept the settlement, because they got more from being part of the US-led system than they did from refusing to be part of it.

The nationally televised Dallas-Boston game should have been a power battle.

Some journalists are talking of a power battle within the Fund, with more Keynesian elements perhaps taking the upper hand.

By then it was obvious a power battle was under way about the appointment of McDonnell, his closest political party ally, to the shadow chancellorship.

Over the coming weeks, a power battle will play out between Schwarzenegger and Chiang over whether and how to implement the pay reduction.

Yet even as Mr. Monti, a technocrat who has won the confidence of Parliament but not its loyalty, struggles to restore faith in a government asking for sacrifices, he is facing a power battle — and a culture clash — with lawmakers.

For Mr. Ahmadinejad, who has a year left in his second term, perhaps it is less a power struggle than a battle for survival.

Under the increasing influence of Saudi Arabia, Qatar has become a major player in a wider power battle with Iran.

Pinter's vision of private life as a political power battle in which memories, whether true or false, are a vital tactical weapon, is also one that most of us would now recognise.

From the moment Illingworth became involved he wanted total control and there appeared a constant power battle between himself and Atherton.

Vatican experts speculate that the scandal over the butler leaking confidential information was part of a complex power battle within the Vatican by factions that wanted to undermine Cardinal Bertone, a canon lawyer and a former archbishop of Genoa.