Sentence examples for catholic faction from inspiring English sources

Louis XV disliked him, and the pious Catholic faction at court remained acutely hostile.

Ormonde's attempts to conclude a peace were blocked by a Catholic faction that advocated complete independence for Ireland.

Nevertheless, O'Neill and the other members of the Roman Catholic faction eventually had to ally with the English Anglican Royalists against the English Independent Parliamentarians.

At this time such an election would probably result in a government more inclined to openly assist the Catholic faction in the North.

In the January assembly the political alignments were not identical with religious divisions; nonetheless, the first estate included a powerful Catholic faction, and the second estate was predominantly Hussite.

Small and swarthy, ambitious and devious, but a leader of the moderate Roman Catholic faction called the Politiques, he secured in the general Treaty of Beaulieu (May 6 , 1576 a group of territories that made him duc d'Anjou.

He has maneuvered between the demands of Catholic factions to his left and right.

The pontiff also tried to reconcile the Orthodox and Catholic factions in Ukraine.

The southern liberal and Catholic factions opposed to William's rule joined in 1828 (the "union of parties") and petitioned the King for political and religious reforms.

A REPORTER AT LARGE about visiting Northern Ireland & the friction between Protestant & Catholic factions there... Tells about the security measures writer encountered at his hotel.

One aspect of the peace accord was a weighted voting procedure intended to protect the interests of Northern Ireland's rival Protestant and Catholic factions.