Sentence examples for contentious power from inspiring English sources

Arrington shows that while movements can use litigation to right tragic wrongs, gaining allies in government too early can reduce activists' reliance on the contentious power of litigation, limiting their ability to extract concessions.

WASHINGTON — On paper, the sweeping gains Republicans enjoyed last year in statehouses across the country gave the party a profound advantage in the nascent and increasingly contentious power struggle to create new Congressional districts.

Yob and Eilon, who were both involved in a contentious power struggle this year over which delegates would represent the U.S. Virgin Islands at the Republican National Convention, are not identified in Conservative Connector's corporate filings.

President Nicolás Maduro and his leftist movement have seized control of the country, not through a coup, but through a contentious power grab that has gutted Venezuela's democratic institutions and effectively eliminated any official political challenges.

Ann Juliette Roberts accused the Metropolitan police of breaching human rights laws by using the contentious powers against a disproportionately high number of black Londoners, of whom she is one.

"It doesn't have some of the more contentious powers that were in that bill.

Mrs May told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "It doesn't have some of the more contentious powers that were in that (2012) bill.

Some of the more contentious powers proposed in the Coalition government's 2012 version of this bill have been removed after listening to industry figures and civil liberties' groups, Mrs May said.

Supporters of the Maldives' former president have prevented the country's new leader from opening parliament, three weeks after he took office in a contentious transfer of power.

Since the Enlightenment, these relationships have become still more contentious as state power has grown and religious claims have shrunk.

And yet, the dispute between Mrs. Kirchner and the conglomerate, Grupo Clarín, one of the most contentious struggles over power and public influence in Argentina in years, is just heating up.