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11 sentences with 'faction'

Example sentences and phrases with the word faction and other words derived from it.


• « An expansionist faction of the Roman Senate successfully persuaded the Centurion Assembly to declare war. »
• « Ruled by a secular nationalist faction, the Baath Party, since 1968, Iraq represented another form of autocracy in the region. »
• « There was also a growing conservative faction in Rome led by Cato the Elder who emphasised Roman moral virtue over Greek weakness. »
• « The US military quickly invaded Afghanistan, ruled by an extremist Sunni Muslim faction known as the Taliban, for harbouring Al Qaeda. »
• « A crisis occurred at the end of his reign when a parliamentary faction called the Whigs tried to exclude his younger brother, James II, from being eligible for the throne because he was openly Catholic. »
• « At the same time, the Church was divided between a 'High Church' faction that favoured all the trappings of Catholic ritual, and a 'Puritan' faction that wanted a moralistic and austere approach to Christianity, more akin to Calvinism than Catholicism. »
• « His son, Charles I (r. 1625 - 1649), was a much greater threat from the perspective of parliament. He strongly supported the "high church" faction of the Anglican church as Puritanism among the common people grew, and began to openly encroach on parliamentary authority. »
• « Again, Britain provides the iconic example: the triumph within the Labour Party of a centrist faction that created "New Labour", a political philosophy that supports the welfare state but also accepts the position that the free market is the essential engine of economic growth. »
• « This hope for a new beginning was not limited to the Soviet Union itself. In October 1956, a reformist faction of the Hungarian Communist Party inspired a mass uprising that called not only for a reformed and more humanist communism, but for the complete expulsion of Soviet forces and "advisors". »
• « Under the leadership of Martin Van Buren, New York's Republican "Bucktail" faction (so called because its members wore a deer's tail on their hats, a symbol of membership in the Tammany Society) gained political power by cultivating loyalty to the will of the majority, not to an elite family or a figure of renown. »
• « However, as the crucial weeks of late June and early July unfolded, a faction of conservative nobles and the queen tried to persuade King Louis to use force to remove what they correctly perceived as a fundamental challenge to royal authority, and he cautiously moved forward with a plan to summon troops to police the proceedings. »

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