Sentence examples for competing claimants from inspiring English sources

On taking office, a new ruler — even one designated by his dead predecessor — had to fend off competing claimants.

Social tension grows as competing claimants on a shrinking pot slug it out in a substitute market-place, peopled by lobbyists, by interest-groups and, eventually, by streetfighters.The argument is familiar today.

A year later, "La Hamaca" is still being held by Sotheby's, awaiting a settlement between the competing claimants -- a familiar standoff for works of art from Cuba that were lost, abandoned or directly confiscated as Fidel Castro's government took control.

Mr Schelling tills the lower-lying valleys, discovering the most fertile fields of application and plucking the juiciest examples.In one of his more unusual papers, Mr Aumann uses game theory to shed light on an obscure passage in the Talmud, which explains how to divide an asset, such as a fine garment, between competing claimants.

Even if all of China's claims were removed, most of the South China Sea would still be claimed by one or more of the such other competing claimants.

Property possession norms are less costly to enforce than property ownership norms because it is easier for an enforcer to witness and to correct a forcible dispossession than to decide which among competing claimants "owns" a commodity that one of them has set down.

Specter of Conflict Among competing claimant states in the South China Sea, the Philippines and China arguably have the most toxic bilateral relationship.

"The real reason driving all of the competing Arctic claimants, is, of course, oil and gas," said Huebert.

Nowadays, some estimates even put one-quarter of the world's energy resources in the Arctic crust, giving the Canucks a second oil baby after the tar sands".The real reason driving all of the competing Arctic claimants, is, of course, oil and gas," said Huebert.  .

The story, full of implication for modes as varied as 19th-century nationalism and 20th-century feminism, renders "a figure not of history but of longing," Gordon writes, with claimants competing to use the myth of the girl-soldier to advance separate agendas.

For a few days or a few weeks, under that worst case, the nation would have had two competing almost-presidents-elect, like rival claimants to some European throne.