Sentence examples for dissident factions from inspiring English sources

Now the P.L.O. is negotiating with Israel, and its own dissident factions, while relying on Syria, are much weakened.

Under Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's rule (1954 89), all political parties were closely controlled, including the dissident factions of his Colorado Party.

Matteo Renzi, the prime minister and leader of the centre-left Democratic party (PD), and Silvio Berlusconi, who heads the centre-right Forza Italia, both face simmering revolts by dissident factions.

Dissident factions of the LDP could defect to join the DPJ, thereby pushing the DPJ's tally of members of parliament above 50% and enabling it to form a government.

Most major threats to the political status quo have come either from dissident factions within the religious community or from groups that appeal in some way to Islamic values.

Mr. Putin has also beefed up the K.G.B. presence in the military, where spies have traditionally kept tabs on dissident factions and tamped down potential military resistance to government policies.

But on this day the dissident faction set up its own speakers some 30 feet away.

But after Soviet Communism collapsed, a dissident faction of the E.L.N. split off.

The email was sent to the Guardian by a dissident faction of the ANC.

And yet even in Utah the dissident faction is weaker than it might at first seem.

But in 1903 a dissident faction led by Emmeline Pankhurst began a series of boycotts, bombings, and pickets.