Sentence examples for dividing power from inspiring English sources

To Israeli intelligence, the reform fits a familiar pattern for Mr. Arafat, of preventing any clear successor or challenger from emerging by dividing power below his level.

Many also object to Lebanon's system of dividing power strictly along religious lines and its heavy dependence on Iran for political guidance.

But, in a system that prides itself on dividing power so as to avoid them, they are scarcely tolerated at all.

The Northern Ireland Assembly, which operates on a formula dividing power between the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority, was suspended in October when Protestant leaders threatened to close it down because of disclosures of I.R.A. spy activities.

Simply put, submetering makes it possible for co-ops and condominiums that have one master electric meter to charge shareholders and unit owners for the power they use, rather than dividing power costs among the residents on the basis of their proportionate interest in the co-op or condo.

While the budding furor in Yucatán has nothing to do with segregation, it may have something to do with dividing power between states and the federal government and everything to do with the old guard's resisting changes under a new government.

Compromises would also have to be worked out in dividing powers between central and regional authorities to grant constituencies enough of a sense of self-rule to override narrow nationalistic aspirations.

Federalism is the theory or advocacy of federal principles for dividing powers between member units and common institutions.

–Rather than dividing powers within ministries, it appears that whole ministries instead fall under the dominion of particular parties.

The war ended, in 1990, with an agreement to divide power and positions fifty-fifty.

Negotiations are deadlocked, council members say, over how to divide power among groups from different regions.