Sentence examples for faction could not from inspiring English sources

Many in the Zuma faction could not wait to yank the reins from Mr. Mbeki.

In the end, the conservative faction could not garner the eight votes it needed.

Although M23 is isolated in Virunga's dense tropical environment, security experts agree that the rebel faction could not remain this strong without the aid of a regional power.

In this case, since the factions could not agree on whether property destruction violates the movement's semiofficial code of nonviolence, there were two competing calls: one from the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (known as CLAC, its initials in French) and a Quebec City group called CASA, the other by an economic-justice organization called Operation SalAMI ("dirty friend").

According to a chronicle, Stephen sent envoys to negotiate a peace treaty, but the two factions could not agree and the war continued.

The bourgeois ministry was split into a liberal-centralist and a conservative-federalist faction; its members could not reach an agreement on policies to be adopted.

Hurried preparations were then made to defend Delhi, but the faction-ridden nobles could not agree on a strategy.

Because of the sporadic fighting that occurred between rival factions, central Beirut could not be reconstructed during the war, and all business moved out of the area to establish new premises in the Christian and Muslim sides of the city.

While anti-sectarian ideology became a central plank of the Baath Party, factions within it could not escape their sense of identity and tallying of who was lining up with whom.

Mexican news media said that the car bombs may have been made by Mr. Guzmán's faction, although the police could not confirm that.

The website cited sources from Palestinian militant group Fatah Al-Intifada, which is fighting Isis alongside the Palestine Liberation Army and other armed factions, and the account could not be confirmed.