The big question is whether competing power centers will be able to develop over time both at the national and the state levels.

Companies may fear that this would create a competing power base at the head of the enterprise.

I believe your father was in the service of another power, a competing power.

The village was located along the border between several competing powers.

It has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among competing powers.

Such a development, they said, could complicate government by creating competing power centers.

In 1996, the commission ordered utilities to open their transmission lines to competing power companies.

A race between the competing powers of diesel, electric and steam.

"I don't see the church as a competing power.

Concessions to competing power bastions, namely the military, have been necessary.

Though he is careful to describe relations with Iran, a competing power in the region, as "cordial and professional."

Dearlove compared the competing power blocs to the nineteenth century.

The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers.

Problems can occur with getting all the parties to work together and with managing competing power centers.

Turkey's old guard has been locked in a battle with the ruling party for several years, mainly due to competing power interests.

He is unlikely to alienate competing power centres, who can stymie his reforms.

Zeno was a very able diplomat, but even he found it difficult to manoeuvre among the various competing powers of the era.

Under such a plan, local utilities like Southern would be unable to stop competing power shipments from out-of-state suppliers.

Conflicting interests between a large regional power with a superpower nuclear capability and other competing powers are not surprising.

It is a process whereby scarce resources are allocated among competing powers and claimants.

The new regime sought to realign these competing power bases, if only to ensure control over the nation's security apparatus.

"Europe must be strong and organized," he emphasized, after painting a tableau of competing powers emerging beyond the Continent.

Moscow and Leningrad were two competing power centers in the Soviet Union.

The reasons behind all this interest by competing powers in the South China Sea are twofold.

This time around, the conclave is divided into competing power blocs with different ideas as to what qualities the new pope needs.