The phrase "as a faction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a group of individuals united by a common interest or goal, often in a political or social context.
Example: "The members of the committee acted as a faction to push for the new policy changes."
Alternatives: "as a group" or "as a coalition".
These animosities later deepened, say local party members, as a faction sought control of Labour politics in Renfrewshire, which includes Paisley and two neighbouring Labour-held seats.
The MILF itself began as a faction that splintered from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which accepted autonomy for some largely Muslim areas in a peace agreement with the government in 1996.
Both in Cairo and during the Gaza celebrations, they treated Mr Shaath as little more than a cheerleader, and Fatah's armed wing in Gaza, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, as a faction under their command.
While the Taliban publicly disavowed the new group, Afghan intelligence officials depicted it as a faction of the Taliban that is "behind the current campaign of psychological and terror attacks," as one official put it.
A18 Reform Party in Chaos The Reform Party split apart, as a faction opposed to Patrick J. Buchanan's presidential candidacy stormed out of a meeting of party leaders and vowed to proceed on its own, perhaps as a new party.
This dynamic is inscribed in the modern history of the Republican Party; the G.O.P. of the past half-century has been home to some moderate politicians, but they have not often gathered behind an agenda, as a faction.
In effect, says Takao Toshikawa, editor of Tokyo Insideline, a newsletter, Mr Ozawa controls 140-odd "Ozawa kids"—about as large a faction as Tanaka ever boasted.
Amr Moussa, the 22-state Arab League's secretary-general, paid a rare visit to Gaza earlier this month but met Hamas officials as members of a faction, not as Gaza's official authority, and asked Hamas's security guards not to escort him.
His continuing pretensions gradually eroded his local support as well; finally, a faction of Zürich citizens, in an act of dubious legality, secured his arrest and subsequent execution.
They identify themselves as Faeries, a faction within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community that emphasizes nature, spirituality and self-expression.
When Moussavi was Prime Minister, in the nineteen-eighties, he belonged to a faction known as the Islamic Left.
