Sentence examples for powerful competing from inspiring English sources

There was one powerful competing influence: that of the Bolshoi Ballet, when it came West for the first time, in 1956, a year before the première of "Agon".

It comes as the Army wrestles with two powerful, competing needs: finding enough soldiers to fulfill commitments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and finding ways to make those tours less onerous for the soldiers and their families.

But the real reason that transformation is hard – as Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey make clear in their book Immunity To Change – is that people (and organisations) have powerful "competing commitments", or reasons not to change.

They insist that elected governments negotiate, and that the CFP protects them, even shielding it against powerful competing interests in Whitehall likely to trade UK fishing stocks for other concessions.

The scandal that brought down Mr. Bo is arguably the biggest one to shake the party in decades, and China's leaders have had to take into account powerful competing forces — from liberal party officials who have denounced Mr. Bo to revolutionary families still close to him — while preparing for the trial.

The US is a pluto-democracy - a democracy in which the rich and powerful compete for office, and the 'transition' to office, not to say office itself, sees a lot of campaign debts being honoured.

But Kismayu has always been a tricky place to rule, with several powerful clans competing for influence and significant port fees to fight over.

Liot said Alcatel's new box can connect ten times more DSL connections than Redback's and is more powerful than competing gear from Siemens and Cisco.

Moreover, Iran and Saudi Arabia are considered to be the two most powerful players competing for influence in the region, making the possibility for a strange-bedfellow relationship with Israel not totally inconceivable.

We acknowledge this limitation and in response, we herein develop new tests that utilize the continuity of information among observations that exceed the threshold of interest, are more powerful than competing tests, including the Wang-Allison tests, in most cases, and remain valid under the null hypothesis of no effect on 'maximum' lifespan.

For decades, hedge funds have been portrayed as the smart money, with the power to frighten chief executives and destabilise governments; rich individuals and powerful institutions competed to give them money.