Political activity by servicemen on behalf of a particular faction or cause would clearly be detrimental to the needs of discipline in an armed force.
It would be useful to know whether the action was part of a well-considered and vetted program to eliminate cronyism — or instead just another example of it, with the only difference being that it is now being perpetrated by a different sheriff on behalf of a different faction.
We hijacked a train carrying nuclear waste through the center of London in order to reveal the weaknesses in the system on behalf of an antinuclear faction of the Occupy Earth group, and that was the point at which I felt like we'd peaked in our straightforward political high jinks.
Members of Mexico's ruling party on Sunday chose former Congresswoman Josefina Vazquez Mota as their long-shot candidate for president — the first time a woman will vie for the country's top job on behalf of a major political faction.
Indigenous rights advocate and W&J elder Adrian Burragubba and others – on behalf of an anti-Adani faction that includes Australia's first Indigenous senior counsel, Tony McAvoy – argues in an application filed in court that the four who took "sitting fees" to meet Adani exceeded their authority as representatives.
A series of media interviews given on Monday by a man identifying himself as Abu Umar, an al-Shabab commander in the Somali port of Kismayo, has fed speculation that he might be speaking on behalf of a mutant new splinter faction.
Most of what Russians call political parties are really factions organized on behalf of a single powerful politician.
Rand Paul's, on behalf of the Tea Party faction, swung more widely, with dark intimations about debt, free phones, and Montesquieu.
If you were human, I'd risk offending you by saying this, but you're anything but, so who cares: on behalf of my particular faction of "Game of Thrones" fans — the Littlefinger enthusiasts, the Tarly-ites, the supporters of the Targaryen restoration — I hope that, in the season finale this Sunday, Dany flies to Hardhome on Drogon and has him breathe C.G.I. flames on you and everything you inhabit.
