Faction
a faction (noun) - a smaller groups within a larger group (that usually don't agree or oppose each other, factions often form around one powerful person)
factionalism (noun) - the state of having many factions
factional (adjective)
the leading faction
the dominant faction
the dominant faction within
a disaffected faction
a military faction
a dissident faction
a right wing faction
a left wing faction
the faction leader
a faction of the political party
getting rid of a faction
the dominant faction
a partisan faction
a political faction
a rebel faction
a major faction
a conservative faction
a liberal faction
a parliamentary faction
feuding factions
a factional fight
a bitter factional fight
involved in a factional fight
factional struggles
break away
local factions
faction leaders
across factional lines
cooperation across factional lines
factional disputes
plagued by continuing factional disputes
loyalty to a faction
factional loyalty
factional disagreement
instigating factional disagreement
extensional of factional conflict to
factional strife
fierce factional strife
factional infighting
fierce factional infighting
factional violence
reputation for factional infighting
factional enmity
a prisoner of factional forces
Example sentences:
* The change in sales commissions led to a bitter faction fight, at the end of which most of the sales people who had recently joined the firm left.
* This is a sure sign that factional interests have been allowed to take priority, coming as it did at a time of national crisis.
* Fierce factional fighting had taken place over these offices, and the candidate that the dominant faction put up was accepted, rejected, and then accepted again.
* Leaders in the party were involved in a bitter factional fight.
* There has been an unprecedented level of factions feuding with each other in the office recently.
* Where disorder has occurred, it has more often been between the police and a faction or between factions staging the political protests.
* They've decided to recognize your faction's leadership rather than that of the rival faction.
* The organisation was broadly divided into a faction supporting the older leadership and a faction that consisted chiefly of new faces to the organisation.
* He continued to exercise de facto control of the faction.
* "Joseph Oronya, described as one of the most senior rebel leaders in eastern Uganda, and commander of another rebel faction, the Uganda People's Army, was killed by regular troops at a rally near Soroti town in late July."
* One faction of the largest political party lost all its seats in the last election.
* They are prepared to establish a breakaway faction rather than accept his leadership.
* The Prime Minister had been thought a prisoner of factional forces inside and outside his party.
* "The change from openness to selective accessibility fundamentally influenced the nature of factional politics at court."
* "The Republicans, plagued by continuing factional disputes over strategy, tactics and supply, proved unable to recapture lost territory."
* "There was some room for individuals and groups to experiment with limited co-operation across factional lines if they could temporarily forget their religious and sometimes political differences."
* We must try harder to transcend factional divisions before the coming election.
* There was a definite blurring of factional lines when people started switching parties before the election with great fury.
* His rise to power seemed quite unaffected by the ebbs and flows of factional politics.
* "In the struggle to advance, outmanoeuvre rivals and be heard by superiors, factional loyalty (loyalty to one's patron) may take precedence over policy interest."
* "Although there was no leadership cult, the leader developed an increasing knack of instigating factional disagreement in the movement at periodic intervals, and as a result of the lack of initiative, leadership and purpose, there was a high turnover of membership."
* "Factional conflict within Korea was extended to Japan and China."
* Factional strife amongst different ethnic groups was fierce.
* "The coup was apparently neither instigated nor expected by the authorities, and it brought a regime to power which was bitterly divided by factional differences."
* The opposition campaign lacked dynamism and the ability to form coalitions and had great difficulty in removing its recent reputation for factional infighting, a major cause of its election defeat.
* Rumours of lawlessness and factional fighting had increased since the government had withdrawn its troops.
* "The size and political diversity of the coalition, however, meant that it was subject to factional infighting which at times threatened its very existence."
* With the prospect of renewed factional discord looming, his ambition to succeed as head of the party Roh appeared to have been badly shaken.
* "The differences within the Cabinet reflected the factional nature of the coalition which Ramos had hurriedly assembled in support of his candidacy prior to the May 1992 presidential elections."
* He lost both office and influence at court as a result of factional enmity, but prince's disfavour ensured that the losses were permanent.
* "He reigned alone in the Frankish heartlands, and prevented filial or factional hostility from coalescing into any major revolt."
* "Bureaucratic office-holding was competed for by members of noble families who formed patronage networks leading to factional feuds between rival clientages."
