1.   Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.

2.   This may be due to competing demands for attention.

3.   The difficulty in defining coherent and stable goals has meant that in practice priorities among competing demands on the railways have frequently been established by ad hoc government intervention.

4.   Besides the cost of child care, there is also the added stress of juggling the competing demands of family and work.

5.   A close look at some of the recent blunders shows just how gullible the analysts can be and just how many competing demands they have on their time.

6.   A number of senior Republicans in the House have also expressed concerns about how to balance military spending against competing demands for money for education and health care.

7.   But the resolution sidesteps the competing demands by the five countries emerging from the breakup of Yugoslavia.

8.   Faced with those competing demands, Aristide seems for the time being to have chosen a third course, diplomats and military analysts said.

9.   For others, it may be more difficult to balance the often competing demands of work and home.

10.   For years, linguistic research was snagged between these two competing demands.