Sentence examples for faction from an from inspiring English sources

In May 2000 Fiji saw its second coup, led by a civilian, George Speight, but backed by a faction from an elite army squadron.

A military offensive by United Nations forces has succeeded in clearing a breakaway military faction from a strategic road leading into Sierra Leone's capital, officials said today.

After the collapse of the Baath Party's first brief reign in 1963, the party splintered and Aziz, who did propaganda work for the party, joined a faction from Tikrit, a city in north-central Iraq.

The army's ceasefire declaration comes after some factions from an alliance of militias controlling the capital, Tripoli, announced a truce on Friday.

"It's like a war is going off on the streets," says one 17-year-old gang member, describing an ongoing feud between two factions from an estate dubbed "Dodge City" in Netherton and nearby Fernhill.

On August 10, tear gas-wielding police tried unsuccessfully to prevent the faction from holding a congress.

Two at-large members were selected by the factions from a list of three names they had nominated.

The corresponding FST value of 0.02379 indicates a low degree of genetic differentiation, among the studied groups, which might probably be attributed to the recent formation of the different factions from a common ancestral group.

Sign up for Thatbest of VICE, delivered to your inbox daily.

Besides the five New York families and the Bruno-Scarfo faction from Pennsylvania, New Jersey has an indigenous group, the DeCavalcante family.

It included a large faction from the Muslim Brotherhood, a party that had been in exile since it was outlawed in Syria in the 1980s.