faction

Definition:
1. A clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue.
2. A dissenting clique.

Use 'faction' in a sentence:

• 1. It is almost impossible for the prime minister to stand above the factions. He always seems in hock to one or another.
• 2. Arkath is the patron deity of the Dwarves (Fortress faction).
• 3. Logistic regression analysis of risk faction in children with learning difficulty.
• 4. Both factions have broadly agreed that the UN plan is a possible basis for negotiation.
• 5. To what faction do I belong?
• 6. A breakaway faction of the rebel group has claimed responsibility for the killing.
• 7. Chocolate improves blood vessel faction.
• 8. But the royal faction did not give up without a fight.
• 9. Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
• 10. The Fatah faction shrinks from elections, unable to agree on a leader to replace Mr Abbas, who wants to retire.
• 11. A ceasefire has been agreed by the country's three warring factions.
• 12. They attacked a stronghold of a clan aligned with the rival Fatah faction, and gunmen there returned fire.
• 13. Each faction has a unique cultural theme.
• 14. I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.
• 15. About faction prestige online I want to say: too low.
• 16. The gens also lives on in the "factions."
• 17. Everything that one faction considers bad, another faction transvalues and considers good.
• 18. Both factions accused each other of using the organization as a Trojan horse to advance their causes.
• 19. If you join a faction (and have enough money) you can recruit the second branch from towns.
• 20. A ceasefire has been agreed on by the country's three warring factions.
• 21. Many of these anxieties are expressed by the “realist faction”.
• 22. You can choose your faction colour, and name.
• 23. Arguments break out between different faction at the party conference.
• 24. A group of people so powerful they're practically a faction unto themselves.
• 25. Most animals in the game are Neutral, allowing them to work in any faction.
• 26. Gandhi was accused by some of trying to appease both factions of the electorate.
• 27. Two factions within Japan are fighting over foreign policy.
• 28. Its appeal in rural areas is weak. And a smaller faction of it, led by Arthur Mutambara, has now endorsed Mr Makoni.
• 29. There are some factions in the party.
• 30. As social intellectuals, we have to cooperate with one faction within the party to defeat the other faction.
• 31. But he left a possibility for the more moderate Fatah faction to persuade Hamas to change its mind.
• 32. Red Faction: Guerrilla.
• 33. HOMELESS, faction-ridden and riding a losing streak, Pakistani cricket was already having a bad year.
• 34. Government leaders mostly come from a single faction in the civil war.
• 35. He appealed to all factions to refrain from violence.
• 36. It is very important that players are not limited to working for only one faction at on time.
• 37. A fierce conflict erupted between the two factions.
• 38. The warring factions have not yet turned in all their heavy weapons.
• 39. These items have to be taken back home or destroyed, lest they fall into the hands of one faction or another.
• 40. No, but it will be possible to learn languages and communicate with players of the opposing faction.
• 41. The country is afflicted with faction.
• 42. Normally, in a real-time strategy game each faction would use the same resources.
• 43. In Chinese traditional culture, the bamboo includes abundant Ru factions idea.
• 44. Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.
• 45. Where faction is the faction name. This is the portrait for the first leader of that faction.
• 46. All the factions intrigued against each other, resorting to deception and fraud.
• 47. Mr. Takeshita became the party's kingmaker, handing the largest faction over to one of his own disciples.
• 48. The party split into petty factions.
• 49. It is time for opposing factions to unite and work towards a common goal.
• 50. They agreed to form a council composed of leaders of the rival factions.
• 51. A rebel faction has split away from the main group.
• 52. There now seems little chance of rapprochement between the warring factions.
• 53. Radical factions say the talks are getting nowhere and they want to withdraw.
• 54. Leaders of some rival factions signed a peace agreement last week.
• 55. New proposals have been put forward to break the deadlock among rival factions.