Sentence examples for competing authorities from inspiring English sources

At times, forging a consensus among the city's government's competing authorities has been complicated, with someone always wanting to have the last word, said Ms. Luken, who worked with the city for three years.

Although Maori resistance was quelled by the mid-1860s after a decade of fighting, Grey was caught between competing authorities and was unable to carry out much of his legislative program.

The Shiite and Sunni endowment offices, which administer mosques and other religious and cultural sites around the country, are the competing authorities at the center of the dispute over the rebuilding of the shrine and the possible development of surrounding areas.

Building institutions to support livestock mobility is political not only because of the act of inscribing physical boundaries but also because recognition requires a negotiation among competing authorities.

The conclusion that transparent roofs are inappropriate for the conservation of outdoor wall paintings might seem obvious for experts in the field, but the competing authorities requested empirical evidence prior to approving the roof change.

This is an important week for Libya, which began Monday with a gathering of foreign ministers in Vienna to shore up support for the new United Nations-backed government, one of the three competing authorities in the country — and the one's that's getting Western backing to fight the local Islamic State (IS) offshoot.

(3) TEK is perceived as being a competing authority with science, creating divisions between indigenous expert authorities and scientific expert authorities (Kofinas 2005; McGregor 2008).

However, a number of improvements may be made to the proposal with regard to environmental protection, the protection of workers, the provision of information to users, competing operators and competent authorities, the continuity and quality of the public service, the maximum duration of contracts, the transitional period and various other points.

He argues for the authority in the interpretation of Scripture to be given to that same earthly sovereign, and not to competing ecclesiastical authorities (whose competition had been seen to exacerbate the miseries of war both in Britain and on the continent) (Ibid., Ch. 33).

From a geostrategic perspective, it played an important role in the colonial rivalry between the competing military authorities of French Algeria and French Sudan".

From a geostrategic perspective, it played an important role in the colonial rivalry between the competing military authorities of French Algeria and French Sudan". The importance of Tessalit to the French led to the construction of the Amachach military garrison, 7km south of the town.