1.   In the face of competing claims on scarce resources, the allocation process can also become highly political.

2.   Instead, agencies find they must tread a tricky path between the competing claims of state regulation and free enterprise.

3.   What emphasis should be given in resource terms to the sometimes competing claims of effectiveness versus user-friendly services?

4.   Already competing claims have led to revisions.

5.   Ancient property disputes must be redressed, and competing claims to religious sites adjudicated.

6.   And in a political system where there are many competing claims by far needier people, it would be.

7.   And those attitudes are full of parallel arguments and competing claims.

8.   Art may belong to the human clan, but in practice, legal battles over ownership can entangle a work in competing claims.

9.   At the tourist stores outside the site, the two old farmers may continue their competing claims for just as long.

10.   A court hearing on the competing claims has been scheduled for June.