According to Lebanon's power-sharing system, the president must be a Christian Maronite, the prime minister a Sunni and the parliament speaker a Shiite.

The amendments established a new political order, replacing the power-sharing system in effect since Lebanon became independent of France in 1943.

In the RSI model, human beings form power-sharing social systems in which they share responsibility for meeting needs and making choices that shape the social system's future.

In 1998, the Belfast peace accord created a power-sharing system, and began an overhaul of state institutions.

Whatever future peace Lebanon can obtain, it is not going to be under the power-sharing system that existed before the start of the civil war.

However, the government continued to resist demands for universal suffrage, preferring a power-sharing system.

And the change in the power-sharing system between long-range sensors and shields must have been designed and executed in just the last few hours.

Tuur concurrently began instead to publicly seek and advocate reconciliation with the rest of Somalia under a power-sharing federal system of governance.

President Bush called the blackout "a wake-up call" to modernize the nation's power-sharing system.

At the heart of that policy lies the fear that the refugees could upset Lebanon's already complicated and tenuous power-sharing system, based on ethnic and sectarian affiliation.