Sentence examples for longstanding power from inspiring English sources

To me (and most others, I am willing to bet), the A.C.A. is fairly straightforward and uncontroversial application of this longstanding power.

It lies in a region around the city of Kirkuk, an area of vast potential oil wealth that is at the center of a longstanding power struggle between Kurds and Arabs.

PAGE A12 RAID ON UKRAINE ENERGY COMPANY Security agents raided the offices of Ukraine's state energy company in what appeared to be an escalation of a longstanding power struggle at the highest levels of the Ukrainian government.

The federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) fell short both because it operated in disregard of the States longstanding power to define marriage, and by means of that disregard, treated gay couples as second class or inferior contrary to the equal protection obligations all States must observe.

The expected Kuwaiti move, part of an effort to sideline Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, a member of the Gulf state's ruling family and one of world sports' most powerful men, and his brother, Sheikh Talal Al-Fahad, the head of Kuwait's National Olympic Committee (NOC), is the latest episode in a longstanding power struggle that has played out in Kuwaiti courts and international sports.

But there's little doubt that Mr. Raheem had entered perilous waters — particularly at a time when the military leadership faces an array of legal actions that challenge several pillars of the army's longstanding grip on power in Pakistan.

It has been fuelled by the longstanding competition for power between President Salva Kiir and the former Vice-President Riek Machar, whom Kiir had removed from his post a few months ago.

The backdrop to the conflict is the longstanding struggle for power in the predominantly Shiite south of Iraq between followers of Mr. Sadr and followers of the Shiite cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The push to pass a new constitution in Kenya, a cornerstone of the effort to correct longstanding imbalances of power and prevent the kind of upheaval that followed deeply flawed elections here, has attracted some unexpected interference — from more than 7,000 miles away.

Indeed this novel model of service provision, where GPs and NPs work alongside each other, may offer other benefits in building teamwork and shared expertise, despite longstanding differences of power, pay, status and gender between these two healthcare professionals [ 18].

In 2015, the White House's Office of Management and Budget decried the bill as a "radical departure from the longstanding separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches".