Sentence examples for contending groups from inspiring English sources

The community acted as a loosely coupled network of contending groups.

Yet if the concept of "politics" is to be explanatory it should show how power gets dispersed and rebalanced among contending groups.

This article describes an approach that we call "parallel informal negotiation" which encourages a collaborative effort between contending groups that were officially not even allowed to interact: international trade and environment policy makers.

With no big issue like war, recession or incumbency to give the 2000 race some shape, America looks more than ever like an indistinct montage of contending groups -- some new, some old standbys.

The strategy may unnerve rivals that expected the company to be chastened by the government's anti-trust case.MONEY & BUSINESS The Soupy Melting Pot With no big issue like recession or incumbency shaping the 2000 race, the electorate seems more than ever an indistinct montage of contending groups.

After the prime minister's repeated failures to win agreement of contending groups within the government on earlier nominees, he stood at the lectern in the Parliament chamber and presented the three men who emerged from weeks of overlapping vetoes by the main Sunni and Shiite political groups.

And we will create a huge mess, because Iraq is a fractious country of five thousand years of contending ethnic groups.

There is one choral episode in which, unpromising though the idea may sound, contending political groups sing antiphonal slogans at one another most thrillingly.

Broadly speaking, usually contending religious groups -- the basic political division here -- have been brought into an unusual alliance against the government.

They contend such groups are circumventing campaign finance laws and funneling soft money into the federal elections.

Though they provided no definitive evidence, Republicans contend the groups are violating that provision with their advertising.