adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
competing claims
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the competing claims of the political parties
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An alternative approach is to recognise the possibility of a more broadly-based balancing of the competing interests involved.
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As there are too few places, comparison between competing claims is necessary.
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I thought it would be fascinating to watch two such competing impulses in the same woman and in women of different classes.
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Last week's meeting in Paris presented the results of a two-year study of the competing projects.
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Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child.
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Similarly radicals overstate the degree of unanimity among the medical profession, which is in fact riven with dissension and competing ideologies.
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The senior staff have many competing responsibilities.
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They were for ever breaking up each other's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.