8 sentences with 'factions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word factions and other words derived from it.
• « Although the Shi'a rejected Uthman's authority in theory, there was still no open violence between the two factions within the wider Muslim community. »
• « However, Henry V died quickly and the conflict erupted into a series of alliances and counter-alliances between rival factions of English and French nobles. »
• « As rival factions developed in the upper echelons of the Church hierarchy, one group of French cardinals elected another, the French pope (Clement VII), and Europe was thus divided between two rival popes, who excommunicated each other as heretics and impostors (the term used at the time was "antipope"). »
• « The end result of the English Reformation was that England and Scotland were divided between competing Christian factions, but very different from those in the British Isles compared to the more direct conflicts between Catholics and Protestants on the European continent. »
• « France was divided between two major factions, led by the fanatical Catholic Guise family and the Huguenot Bourbon family. »
• « There was almost a macabre humour in the fact that the leaders of all three factions were named Henry - King Henry III of Valois, Prince Henry IV of Navarre, and the leader of the Catholic League, Henry, Duke of Guise. »
• « Various factions attempted to impose and maintain censorship, but were largely unsuccessful due to the political fragmentation of the period. »
• « The Massachusetts resistance to British authority united different factions in Britain against the colonies. »