Sentence examples for contest for power from inspiring English sources

He knows that Egypt is the real game in the Islamist contest for power.

By May 2008 Tymoshenko was engaged in a direct contest for power with President Yushchenko.

The truth is it is a contest for power, not for liberty.

ELECTIONS in Russia have long ceased to be a contest for power or a competition between ideas.

The battle for Gardez and the rest of Paktia Province is at root a contest for power and money.

This is more a bitter contest for power among the regime's political elites than any genuine social divide.

Some of it is directed or abetted by states who are in contests for power there.

We become absorbed with our abstract arguments, our ideological disputes, our contests for power.

Bilateral proxy contests for power and influence have continued, though in different forms.

And as we've already seen, calls for change may give way, in some cases, to fierce contests for power.

But once they withdrew, and these countries became independent, the contests for power began, and minorities were exposed.