Sentence examples for contests for power from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Previous amnesties did not come during fierce contests for power, but only after the dust had settled.

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

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.

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.