Sentence examples for competition for authority from inspiring English sources

Mr Mandaville's primer, "Global Political Islam", is a well-informed account of the origins of mainstream Islamism, the strategies of Islamisation, the emergence of the radical fringe, the competition for authority among Muslim elites and the impact of globalisation on Muslim politics.

The current dispensation of democratic, representative rule has seen the balance shift and majority groups assert themselves, leading to intense competition for authority and resources.

However, then there is a second claim of the 'sovereignists', that is that the establishment of supranational, coercive power would mean a competition for final authority – for control of centralised authority – with the nation states.4 The case of the EU shows, as we shall see, that there need not be a struggle for final authority, when the legal basis is the same for all adjudicative bodies.

The corruption creates huge incentives for criminal groups to consolidate their markets through savage competition for voids in "authority".

Some of them daffed around the house quite happily for a while – Whisky, Bob, and a very enlightened Cairn terrier called Butch – before the competition for liver and moral authority would become too much, and the creatures would be sent back to the pub or the petshop.

Such is IMS's dominance that, in 2000, the firm was hauled before the European Commission's competition authorities for alleged abuse of its market position.

Aditya Mittal, son of founder Lakshmi and chief financial officer, said the group had already won clearance from US competition authorities for its paper-and-cash bid and expected to win the backing of national regulators in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Spain early next week.

Hart's timing is bad as his latest slipshod errors came 24 hours after Fraser Forster underlined his growing authority and competition for an England place with an outstanding display in Celtic's 1-0 defeagainstnst Barcelona.

In July last year the firm was fined €103m ($140m) by the German competition authority for complicity in a cartel that conspired to keep the price of railway tracks high.

GlaxoSmithKline has been fined £37.6m by Britain's competition authority for "illegal behaviour" in relation to its antidepressant Seroxat that resulted in higher costs for the NHS.

Albanian gangsters are the latest ethnic criminals to be presented by authorities as competition for the old and dying Mafiosi.