contending interests

There will be contending interests in the use of resources, the distribution of power.

The patent office has become a place where the essential politics - the checks from contending interests - are out of balance.

Balancing the contending interests has been difficult.

In the courtroom, lawyers for contending interests in lawsuits are pitted against each other.

According to the strategy marked out by the younger notary, this battle of contending interests had now reached the point where victory was certain for Madame Evangelista.

One word that appears often is "Kultursmog," Tyrrell's term for "a politicized culture whose values, discourse and anxieties are polluted by the left's many contending interests."

Within the pluralist tradition, Robert Dahl developed the theory of the state as a neutral arena for contending interests or its agencies as simply another set of interest groups.

Finally, a summary of policy issues raised and discussed during one academic year (1987-88) is used to demonstrate the pattern of contending interests and the extent to which they can or cannot be accommodated.

In this reading of things, each bureaucracy has become adept at marking out turf and advancing its own interests, whilst the Party-State leadership finds itself in the position of 'broker' between contending interests and 'constituencies'.

Part of the gap in understanding is the natural conflict of contending interests: newsrooms are cost centers and always want more, while circulation and advertising departments are profit centers and would like to return more to the bottom line.

It now comes with two or three mini-essays a week by William Saletan on the order of his "Frame Game" feature: shrewd analysis of how an issue is being framed by the contending interests and who is winning the frame game.

The substance of much present-day Western analysis consists of frictions between contending interests and élites, accommodations, bargains and rear guard actions: a political set-up in which the Armed Forces General Staff, with its prestige and professional competence, is seen to have acquired a firm foothold.