Sentence examples for contest control from inspiring English sources

Sunni and Shia politicians bitterly contest control of key posts in government and the security forces, while their militias clash over control of territory.

The crisis between the government of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the Kurds, who make up 20 per cent of the population, is coming to a head now because a resurgent Iraqi army is beginning to contest control of areas which Kurds captured when Saddam Hussein fell in 2003.

Maybe, after each three years of inconclusive combat, each of the two sides should select an elite team to contest control of a small village using both weaponry and political guile over a month's time.

The Taliban control much of Kandahar Province and are contesting control of the city.

But the example does show that there are good reasons why most public contests control the options on offer, and institute a bar to entry.

It also seemed to spell certain defeat for ABN Amro, a big Dutch bank, with which BPI had been bitterly contesting control of Antonveneta since March.

Loyal and rebel generals are contesting control of the capital.A five-day ceasefire, to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid, began in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is hitting Houthi rebel forces that have driven out the internationally recognised government.

These assumptions are often underpinned by environmental discourses contesting control of natural resources, rather than by objectively measured trends and causalities.

The Taliban hold or are contesting control of nearly all of the province's 14 districts.

The engagement was one of several between rival frigate squadrons contesting control of the French island base of Île de France, from which French frigates had raided British trade routes during the war.

As the Overseas Development Institute's report, "State building for peace" points out, there is often tension between efforts to build equitable and high functioning institutions in fragile states (state building) and brokering the compromises among warring factions and foreign interests contesting control over state institutions (peace building) [ 54].