Sentence examples for competing states from inspiring English sources

The difficulty of coordinating any plan between those competing states, however, hampered progress.

If the tests are successful, Lockheed will decide where to base the project among the 15 competing states.

And with the demise of the Soviet Union, Europe now has no enemy to unite its competing states.

They also objected to the focus on charter schools; competing states were rewarded with 40 points — out of 500 possible points — for encouraging more charter schools.

By 1236, the year Iltutmish died, the Delhi sultanate was established as clearly the largest and most powerful of a number of competing states in north India.

Historians propose many reasons: the fracturing of Mughal India into tiny, competing states; the military edge that the industrial revolution had given the European powers.

Hamptons regulations are often contradictory, run by competing state, village and town ordinances, leaving authorities at a loss to explain their purpose.

In public-service reform, for example, the main idea is to increase the introduction of market forces in order that those who commission services may choose from a mix of competing state, private and third-sector providers.

According to The Guardian, the proposed plan, led by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, could take the health service down the road of becoming a national insurance system, with care being provided by competing, state-owned, private and charity providers.

The timer is started to get ready for the competing state.

But this explicitly 'totalitarian' project encountered important limitations posed both by competing state agencies and by the basin's geology.