Sentence examples for shared power for from inspiring English sources

In recent months, President Bashir has sidelined Hassan al-Turabi, a powerful Islamic politician with whom he had shared power for years.

Mr. Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, then the leader of the National Party, shared power for two years in a government of national unity.

The two men have shared power for decades but in recent years, as Saleh began to position his son Ahmed for succession, relations have grown increasingly tense.

The conservative Liberal Democrats, who with their precursors have held or shared power for 62 of the past 63 years, led Japan from bombed-out rubble to economic miracle, while keeping it firmly in Washington's camp.

But the administration was also unable to foster an arrangement in which Mr. Maliki shared power for military and security policy with Ayad Allawi, the leader of the Iraqiya Party, a largely Sunni bloc of lawmakers that includes Mr. Hashimi.

The Greek voters repudiated the two parties that shared power for decades, Pasok and New Democracy, in the May 6 elections; the Irish voters did much the same to Fianna Fail 15 months earlier.

Mr. Coke's case shed light on the longstanding practice in Jamaica of politicians and gang leaders sharing power, for the benefit of both.

The two sides have agreed to share power for six years, after which the south will be allowed a referendum on whether or not to secede.The bad news is that a lot of people feel left out.

Such elections would require that Fatah and Hamas be willing to share power for a short time, perhaps six months, and build a joint police force in Gaza to ensure a fair vote.

Lleras and Gómez, who had met in Benidorm, Spain, in 1956 to discuss the ouster of Rojas, returned the following year to Sitges, where, on July 20, they agreed to a plan devised by Lleras whereby the two parties would share power for the following 12 years.

Under the country's complicated voting system, he needs to finish first among the candidates from the province to avoid a humiliating defeat that would all but end the political fortunes of a couple who once had dynastic hopes of sharing power for 12 uninterrupted years.