Sentence examples for rivalry for control from inspiring English sources

The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era in the United States.

For the next century and a half, the region was a focal point for French-English rivalry for control of North America.

Kyrgyzstan has featured in US-Russian rivalry for control of Central Asia, and various Kyrgyz leaders have proved adept at playing the country's competing allies off against each other, although more recently, Russia appears to have gained the upper hand.

However, the European rivalries for control of the larger Guinea region only intensified.

But there are also networks and overlays of crime, corruption, political power plays, ethnic rivalries and local factions in competition for control over vital areas.

This grand rivalry has begun with an intense competition for control over pipeline routes that will carry Caspian oil to foreign markets.

Rivalry for the control of lucrative criminal businesses fuelled violent feuds and delayed the decommissioning of weapons.Loyalist groups first called a much-breached ceasefire in 1994, and the UDA's announcement this time was undermined by the refusal to hand over its guns.

In the absence of a coalition, the alternate postures of rivalry and battle for control erupted.

The French then became the allies of the Algonquin in the rivalry that began for control of the inland fur trade.

Protesters said they used to view the Alawites as a privileged ruling elite but now saw them as persecutors acting out both an ancient Islamic rivalry and bid for control of the region on behalf of Iran.

Simultaneously Hanover gained from the resolution of the Great Northern War which had been caused by rivalry between Sweden and Russia for control of the Baltic.