Example sentences for: power-sharing

How can you use “power-sharing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WTO continues to dominate, leading at USA Today , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times off-leads the story, going instead with the official start Thursday of Northern Ireland's new home-rule, power-sharing government, a story nobody else fronts.

  • An impasse on disarmament could paralyze the two-month-old power-sharing government in Belfast and may ultimately spur the UK to re-impose direct rule.

  • "We have said 'yes' to many things which would be countenanced in no other democracy," he said--to "power-sharing with former terrorists" and to "a system of allocating ministries in the proposed Executive which would lead to an over-representation of nationalists."

  • The Times of London took the same view, saying that a power-sharing executive without an IRA commitment to disarmament "would be less a democratic political body than bureaucratic cover for a protection racket."

  • But Martin McGuinness, one of Sinn Fein's top leaders, told the paper he believes there is no way the new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland would let peace collapse over the arms question.


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