Sentence examples for controlling factions from inspiring English sources

Even more striking are the issues, like drunken driving, where the three controlling factions generally agree but one, two or all three refuse to compromise.

As soon as Justice Kennedy announced his retirement in June, some liberals began calling for Democrats to prepare to expand the court by two justices when they regain power, permitting a future Democratic president and Democratic-controlled Senate to try to transform the court's controlling faction from its five Republican appointees to six Democratic ones.

The wealthier the territorial base, the greater the potential power of the controlling faction.

Stop the War's controlling faction dismisses that as a Blairite line tantamount to approving the occupation.

In succumbing to the trendy siren song of those who would have the fleeting "constitutional" sentiments of a temporarily controlling faction bring the court to heel, Larry Kramer risks playing Pied Piper to a large and potentially impressionable universe of readers and students.

"To the degree that they control factions in Lebanon, they should use this influence to see that the United States marines are not shot at from Druse positions," he said of the Syrians.

The beauty of Madison's thinking (and he was not alone) was a way not to remove but to control factions.

Radiant Dawns multifaceted plot and lack of a permanent main character leads to the player controlling different factions in the game.

This tarnished Arafat's image in many western nations, including the United States, who held him responsible for controlling Palestinian factions that belonged to the PLO.

At the same time, a series of costly external shocks to the economy resulting from fluctuations in oil prices and Iraq's war with Iran weakened the capacity of the regime to monitor, co-opt, coerce, and control factions of Iraqi society.

The device, which has been derided as an atomic "Frankenbomb," has prompted criticism from arms control factions.