Sentence examples for faction against from inspiring English sources

If you concentrate on balancing one faction against another, the debate moves on, often against you.

Monasticism in 9th-century Byzantium was centred upon the Studites, who came to be a faction against the court.

"What that speech essentially did was side thousands of Syrians inside Egypt with one faction against another.

Rowan Williams has spent his time at Canterbury balancing one faction against the other and it patently hasn't worked.

"He'd back one faction against another, and when the dirty work was done he'd turn on the faction he had backed so they didn't get too powerful.

Some believe that the movement will implode, with the next phase of Afghanistan's interminable warfare involving one Taliban faction against another.

The agency accused Mr Jang of forming "factions" against the state, corruption and "depraved" acts.

By playing factions against each other, he increased the influence of the Hamdānids and Sāmānids.

Gabriel Byrne's independent gangster-gunsel simply sets the factions against one another and watches everybody die.

But he has made it about himself and so he's uniting the factions against him".

He thus managed to accomplish what the Chadians had not managed to do themselves: unite all warring factions — against him.