Sentence examples for power tussle from inspiring English sources

The trailer hints at a power tussle in the town's leadership.

Beijing's telecoms policy, as a result, appears to be the product of a power tussle among these three.

The volatile sectarian power tussle leaves little concern for the health and safety of millions of refugees, the majority of whom are women and children.

RABAT — A decision by Morocco's Islamist-led government in April last year to make television reform one of its top priorities has turned the country's media industry into a pawn in an escalating power tussle between the governing Justice and Development Party and the Royal Palace.

The cause was a political row within the governing party - a power tussle between the President, Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar, relieved of his duties last year.

One upshot of the Islamic Republic's intolerance is that power tussles now centre on personalities, not ideas.

The case also shows how the profligate lifestyles of leaders' relatives and friends can weigh heavily in backstage power tussles, especially as party skulduggery plays out under the intensifying glare of media.

Those stuck in the middle — ordinary Libyans — now stand to have their opportunity for a peaceful democracy ripped to shreds by Cairo and Doha while the domestic clients of these regional powers tussle over the scraps.

The talks are no longer Ahmadinejad's department since he lost a power-tussle with the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, last spring, but he no doubt has a sense of which way the wind is blowing.

Correction to this articleIN THE Byzantine corridors of Iranian power, a tussle between Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is becoming steadily more bitter.

For much of the time Britain seemed doomed, if not to spectacular melt-down, at least to genteel decline as others overtook a once-great power.Historians still tussle over how to interpret the period, especially the three decades before 1980.