He then bought himself a little time by shuffling his cabinet, bringing in some LDP heavy-hitters who recalled the party's history of corrupt faction-ridden politicking, but at least, in the public eye, went some way to filling the government's competence deficit.
In Afghanistan we backed a corrupt tribal faction.
Some corrupted powerful political factions in Baghdad are simply preventing the flow of money to Kurdistan, trying to arrest their evident progress.
In the continuing competition among leading Roman families for control of the papacy, the Tusculan faction had elected the corrupt Benedict IX (1032 44), but the Romans drove him from the city and replaced him with the candidate of the Crescentians, Sylvester III (1045).
Another faction is the very corrupt business tycoons who have amassed uncountable profits making deals with the state and have the influence to cause trouble.
It should be noted that Maré, a complex of 16 favelas with 130,000 residents, is home to three drug-trafficking factions and militias of corrupt ex-policemen, with a dysfunctional police battalion thrown into the mix.
We don't have a partner for peace in either of the Palestinian leadership factions, which are as corrupt and inept as they always have been.
The most likely candidate was Emerson Docc" Beauchamp, the sitting lieutenant governor, but Beauchamp was not a good campaigner and his ties to Logan County – where politics were dominated by sometimes-corrupt political bosses – gave the anti-Chandler faction pause.
Hamas organised clinics and schools which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.
Moderate rebel groups still existed but were often led by corrupt warlords, and lost fighters to more competent jihadi factions.
Plenty of people think the ANC is too far gone (too corrupt; too addled with weird ideologies; too riven with factions) to fix South Africa.
