Sentence examples for faction of their from inspiring English sources

After a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion disbanded them, in 2006, a faction of their militias called al-Shabaab, or "the Youth," rose up in response.

While Freddie Mac's stock is down more than 16percentt since Friday, its bonds have lost only a faction of their value.

Gayoom, the former leader, has fallen out with his half-brother and formed a breakaway faction of their party, making for bitter politics in Malé, at odds with the idyllic resorts a speedboat ride away.

Republican doctors also appear somewhat less comfortable than Democratic doctors with evaluating physicians in terms of their adherence to simple metrics, such as the faction of their patients who receive flu shots of whether cardiac patients are taking appropriate medications.

Adopting an interventionist foreign policy in Ukraine reassures members of siloviki faction of their continued influence in Russian policymaking, and strengthens Putin's domestic position considerably.

"Today, those same Republicans have been driven away from the table by a small faction of their own party," he said.

Therefore, they are not likely to build factions of their own or to play internal politics.

The Castros have a history of broking deals among competing factions of their leftist allies in the region.

That would represent a major legislative achievement, but it would also put Obama and GOP leaders at odds with major factions of their own parties.

Yet Republican presidential candidates have decimated each other in an effort to curry favor from the Tea Party and conservative Christian factions of their party.

Granted, conservative commentators often have a much better grasp of the schismatic differences between the various factions of their own party, so the questions asked would be more penetrating when it comes to drawing distinctions between the candidates.