Sentence examples for contests for influence from inspiring English sources
Afghanistan is myriad wars within a war, with varying terrain, climates, economies and insurgent groups creating a puzzle of shifting contests for influence.
Interest group pluralism presumes that public policy outcomes are determined principally through a contest for influence among organized pressure groups.
Southeast Asia is now the cockpit of a contest for influence involving several large and middling powers.
The contest for influence in the Middle East has pitted largely Sunni Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States, against largely Shiite Iran.
Secretaries of state and defense contest for influence, with national security advisers of varying talents brokering between the two or pushing their own agendas.
As the best organized and most extensive opposition movement in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was expected to have an edge in the contest for influence.
Since then, both countries have actively courted the new leaders, resuming the contest for influence in this rugged, landlocked country of about five million people.
There is a wider contest for influence going on, and thus far China is winning.Aidan Foster-Carter Honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea Leeds University.
Adding to the complexity of the situation, Myanmar, by the nature of its location between India and China, is now the focus of a geopolitical contest for influence by the region's big powers increasingly hungry for natural resources.
It is the latest twist in the contest for influence and resources in Washington that has been a central feature of the struggle against terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001.
