Sentence examples for faction in which from inspiring English sources

Tris, who is living secretly as a "divergent" (someone who fits into more than one group), decides to leave the faction in which she was reared (Abnegation) for Dauntless.

Bullock was endorsed as the lead candidate on the WA Senate ticket under a deal between the rightwing faction, in which Bullock's union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association ( Shoppies), wields power, and the left faction, where Smith's United Voice dominates.

The fighting did not cease, and Angola was devastated by a 27-year civil war between M.P.L.A. and Unita factions, in which about 500,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.

Carmine Persico's plan to have his son installed as acting boss when he was paroled in 1994 provoked an internecine war between two Colombo family factions in which at least 10 reputed gangsters and a bystander were killed in the early 1990's, according to the F.B.I.

It's not so difficult to imagine a scenario with slightly better leadership, and slightly less obstreperous Republican factions, in which the legislation would have gone through both chambers and eventually to the White House.

His family and other business leaders had groomed him since at least the mid-1990s to become chief executive, and he received the early but quiet support of the so-called Shanghai faction in Beijing, which includes former President Jiang Zemin.

In the 1950's he took an active role as a leader of the Arab nationalist faction in Lebanon, which supported President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt against the policies of Lebanon's pro-Western President Camille Chamoun.

When a child turns sixteen, they're given a test to determine which faction they belong in, which is usually that of their parents, though the teens are still allowed to join whichever faction they want.

It also places the Kurds in the delicate position of acting as peacemakers between warring Shiite and Sunni Arab factions, a battle in which their own future is at stake.

That enraged some Taliban factions in Pakistan, which outlawed vaccination in their areas and threatened vaccinators.

Sunni factions in Lebanon — which still bears the scars of its own sectarian civil war — have also sent fighters to Syria, on the rebel side.