8 sentences with “competing”

War began in May 1754 over these competing claims between Britain and France.

It establishes a clear division between ordinary citizens and elites. Elites competing with each other for the vote of the population are the defining element of this form of government.

Just as the history of Spain's rise to power is linked to the Reconquista, so too the history of early globalisation is linked to the history of competing Christian groups in the Atlantic world.

The Protestant Reformation was the permanent split within the Catholic church that gave rise to multiple competing denominations (essentially competing versions) of Christian practice and belief.

The very nature of the break with a single authoritarian institution provoked a number of competing movements, some of which were directly inspired by and connected to Luther, but many of which soon were not.

The world had entered a new phase after the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, however, one that (for Marx) simplified that continuous struggle of many competing classes to just two: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

The Library of Alexandria was eventually destroyed, although to this day there are competing versions of the blame for its destruction (from the forces of Julius Caesar during his involvement in an Egyptian civil war to Christian or Muslim fanatics centuries later).

The end result of the English Reformation was that England and Scotland were divided between competing Christian factions, but very different from those in the British Isles compared to the more direct conflicts between Catholics and Protestants on the European continent.