Sentence examples for struggle for office from inspiring English sources

"What mattered in politics... was not attachment to principle but the struggle for office," was Lewis Namier's description of politics in the age of George III.

Instead, it's the Florida post-election fight over and over, a brutal struggle for office in which each side believes the other is behaving despicably.

(p. 91) Historian Edmund Morgan wrote, "The fact that the lower ranks were involved in the contest (of the American Revolution) should not obscure the fact that the contest itself was generally a struggle for office and power between members of an upper class, the new against the established".

And it really altered the face of the struggle for female office workers to have their issues seen and heard.

In the ensuing struggle for power, Gamaliel managed to concentrate all communal authority in his office.

Unlike the Brotherhood, the Ummah Conference's leaders have shown little inclination to achieve their goals through long political struggles for domestic office, analysts say.

It has become apparent that the strike could contribute to the outcome of a struggle for the highest office in the land.

Internecine struggles for power followed.

But as Indonesia moves toward a July vote for the presidency — only the second direct election in its history — there is worry that the process has become a struggle for the spoils of office rather than a battle over policies.

Ibn Ra'iq's position was anything but secure, however, and soon a convoluted struggle for control of his office, and the Caliphate with it, broke out among the various local rulers and the Turkish and Daylamite military chiefs, which ended in 946 with the ultimate victory of the Buyids.

Ibn Ra'iq's position was anything but secure, however, and soon a convoluted struggle for control of the office of [amir al-umara, and the Caliphate with it, broke out among the various local rulers and the Turkish military chiefs, which ended in 946 with the victory of the Buyids.