Sentence examples for competing centers from inspiring English sources

For nearly a year, Mr. Zuma and Mr. Mbeki represented two competing centers of power.

"But with a system that is so much more complex, inevitably competing centers of power will develop".

He has appointed Steve Bannon as chief strategist and Reince Priebus as chief of staff, an unprecedented arrangement that threatens to create competing centers of power.

The new one will pick up from there, cover about 150 years and chart the emergence of competing centers for tapestry weaving.

It has four competing centers of power: the Army, which participates on a National Security Council; the judiciary; an elected parliament that determines who is Prime Minister, the head of government; and a President, who serves as head of state.

While the old regime concentrated power in Jakarta and suppressed competing centers of authority, newly democratic Indonesia has allowed far more regional autonomy and greater deference to traditional systems of law.

The government was formed five months ago after inconclusive results in national elections; it is an awkward, midwifed partnership between Italy's competing center-left and center-right parties.

And even if the project never comes to pass, Brooklyn, which in Harvey Lichtenstein's boyhood was the world's capital of the "white ethnic," has already become a competing center of cool, both among young people and artists.

Such a development, they said, could complicate government by creating competing power centers.

The proposal is expected to be controversial, in part because hospitals not doing angioplasty would lose patients to competing medical centers.

"Cianci has created a cult of personality that has neutralized the opposition and prevented competing power centers from emerging," said Darrell West, a political scientist at Brown University.