Sentence examples for rival regions from inspiring English sources
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) represented not only differing ideologies but rival regions, clans and dialects.
For the 10th and 11th five-year plans, the government aimed at 7-7.5% growth, but this was treated as a floor rather than a ceiling by overzealous local officials, who see GDP as a key measurement to compete with rival regions, get promoted and secure bribes.
He and allies like Senator Strom Thurmond and Lee Atwater, the former Republican strategist, bridged the state's two rival regions, assembling a coalition of Charleston Republicans with upstate religious conservatives, many of whom were moving into the middle class and to the right economically.
Davies says rival regions the Ospreys, Cardiff Blues and Newport Gwent Dragons have similar numbers of players whose future is uncertain.
From the start of national competitions the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain: Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities.
Perhaps for the first time, Nigerian presidential elections will matter because the leading candidates are identified with rival regions and religions, identities more important to Nigerians than their national one.
Had the new plan omitted the West Coast zone, Fujian would have found itself feeling even more left out, because it also endorsed the development of a rival region centred around the Bohai Gulf in northern China.
According to Trivers, religions are more likely to split into rival factions in regions with high rates of infectious disease.
But that nation's leader blocked any spending and innovation that helped rival tribes and regions.
Behind the activity of the Gulf States, particularly Qatar, in the Syrian issue Moscow sees the rising regional influence of Saudi Arabia, Iran's bitter rival in the region.
Turkey is seen as France's rival in the region as a time when France is trying to re-establish its reputation in the region.
