Sentence examples for faction lead from inspiring English sources

In parliament a faction lead by a former prime minister, Girija Koirala, opposed Mr Deuba's attempts to extend the emergency regulations.

The ruling ex-communists are split between a supposedly modernising faction lead by the prime minister, Sergey Stanishev, and the old guard around Mr Petkov.

During the 90s she used her military connections to introduce him to the influential "chieftains" of the Communist party's Shanghai faction, lead by the then president Jiang Zemin.

Increasingly dominated by a militant-tendency faction lead by Abdus Salaam Ebrahim, their original goal, of 'standing-up to' the gangs morphed into a campaign of assassinations and bombings.

Byrne belonged to a criminal faction led by Kinahan.

Rukh split into two branches, with the new faction led by Yury Kostenko.

A driving force behind him was the arch conservative Rechabite faction, led by Jehonadab.

In Iraq, the Al Qaeda faction led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers.

Byrne belonged to a criminal faction led by Christy Kinahan, a convicted drug dealer.

The Taliban faction led by Sirajuddin Haqqani operates in the area where the attack took place.

The Mehsud faction, led by Khan Said, will now operate independently from its historical base in North and South Waziristan.