Sentence examples for competed for power from inspiring English sources
Its secular government and religious oversight branches have long competed for power.
Its members returned to Korea, where they put together their own political organizations in what came to be South Korea and competed for power.
Traditionally in many European countries, notably Italy and France, several parties competed for power and no one party proved able to command stable majorities in the parliament.
Tan Malaka returned to Java in 1944, during the Japanese occupation in World War II, and afterward competed for power against Indonesian president Sukarno.
Indeed, her ancestors, the Ranas, and Dipendra's ancestors, the Shahs, were historically the two families who competed for power as well as intermarrying.
Two local councils, one in judicial affairs and the other in public finance and administration, centralized Spanish government from the reign of Charles V. Parliament and the Inquisition competed for power with the viceroy.
What drives states is the fact that the best way to survive in the system is to be very powerful, and every state understands that, and, therefore, they compete for power.
