Sentence examples for contending for power from inspiring English sources
None of the parties contending for power has proved it can provide that.
Militant and moderate mullahs are contending for power in Shia areas.
Republicans never assumed they would be back contending for power this quickly after their losses in 2006 and 2008.
The last Ak Koyunlu ruler, Murād, who had been contending for power with his brothers Alwand and Muḥammad since 1497, was also defeated by Ismāʿīl (1503).
None of the states contending for power in the Middle East, Ukraine or the South China Sea can control or predict the consequences of their actions.
If you speak of any agreement at all-since they hardly knew one another-they merely had the intention of helping the Party which was legally contending for power by defending it against rival opposition parties.
For much of the 19th century Bhutan was plagued by a series of civil wars as the governors of the various territories contended for power and influence.
An alphabet soup of militias, with names invoking lofty abstractions like Liberation and Reconciliation, contend for power, split into factions and victimize civilians.
Within each party, and in particular within the Christian Democratic Party, these factions contended for power and for control of lucrative firms and agencies in the public sector to secure financial backing and jobs for supporters.
At the end of the 7th century bce and the beginning of the 6th century, aristocratic families on Lesbos contended for power, among them the family of Alcaeus and his brothers, Antimenidas and Cicis.
