Sentence examples for contesting for power from inspiring English sources

However, there are some militias in the east of the country that are not part of this agreement and are still contesting for power," explained UNICEF Country Representative in DR Congo Anthony Bloomberg.

If you are identified as a settler, you are simply a guest in someone else's home, told to stay quiet and abide by the rules, and not raise trouble by contesting for political power.

But with no agreement on the scope of the problem, those contesting for political power clash over what to do about it.

And this is why it is urgent for U.S. policy in Egypt to change course, because if the democratic path to contest for political power in Egypt is closed to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslim Brotherhood decides to try to seize power by force, everything that has happened so far will seem like a walk in the park.

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

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

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

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

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

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.