Sentence examples for faction for which from inspiring English sources

His fall was contrived by his adversaries in Parliament and by the court faction, for which he was a scapegoat to save the Duke of Buckingham not only from public anger but also from open aggression (Mathews 1996).

Each year, all sixteen-year-olds must take an aptitude test that describes the one faction for which they are best suited.

To understand Chaput's scorn for Clinton you need to know that he is an intellectual leader of the right wing of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States, a faction for which Clinton's support for legal abortion is anathema.

Since 2014, the army has waged an offensive targeting a federation of insurgent groups known as the Pakistani Taliban, a breakaway faction of which claimed responsibility for the Easter bombing.

At the time, the officer corps was split into five different factions; the Damascus faction which supported the ancien régime, supporters of Akram al-Hawrani, a Nasserist faction, a Ba'athist faction and a group of independents.

I base this on the first Red Faction for the PS2, which I don't recall enjoying at all.

The introduction of public funding for political parties in 1994 weakened the fund-raising function, as did an electoral reform at the same time that replaced multi-member constituencies (for which party factions therefore competed) with a mixture of single-member seats and proportional representation.

The attack, for which no Palestinian faction claimed responsibility, caused no damage.

Justice Antonin Scalia, a leader of the court's property-rights faction, objected that "this was a general social problem for which the entire society should pay".

Of the 75 hopefuls, 19 are former bureaucrats and 53 have made public their factional loyalties, despite Mr Koizumi's plea for all candidates to abandon the LDP's faction system, which gets the blame for some of the party's most backward habits.

The war pitted the Morris faction against the Koch-backed Brownback faction, which included the Tea Party-controlled House of Representatives.