factional

Electable bodies such as Anglesey Council abrogate much of their power to people who act as monarchs, and then waste much of their time and efforts in factional infighting.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Electable bodies such as Anglesey Council abrogate much of their power to people who act as monarchs, and then waste much of their time and efforts in factional infighting.

The Anglesey Question 2009

"Allegations and counter-allegations of appeals to base racist sentiments may advantage the short-term factional interests of political parties, but they will leave a legacy of resentment and ethnic tension which will bedevil our region for years to come," Mr Keegan said in a statement.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

MR. LOCKHART: The so-called factional in-house fighting has not advanced since this morning.

Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart ITY National Archives 1999

Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting “an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang”—without specifying which group was which.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting “an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang”—without specifying which group was which.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

Kang Sheng, Mao's intelligence chief, and Mme Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting 'an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang' without specifying which group was which.

WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

The concentration of minority supporters in STW, including its national leadership, raised the possibility that it could become, or be seen by the majority as, what in Maoist parlance would be called a factional headquarters.

Splintered Sunrise splinteredsunrise 2010

And Khamenei has come off his perch as supreme leader and is now a kind of factional fighter on the side of President Ahmadinejad.

CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2009 2009

This reinforced the union's belief that the graft probe against the president was a "politically inspired campaign" using state institutions to settle "factional" disputes within the ruling party.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007