Sentence examples for faction structure from inspiring English sources

Koizumi's reforms considerably weakened the faction structure of the LDP, though the question remains as to whether the factions will reemerge as important features of the LDP's internal politics.

It's a more emotionally rewarding story of accelerated childhood than I Declare War (Kaleidoscope, 15), an initially arresting but finally laboured Canadian tale of pre-teens gone wild in the woods over the course of a single summer's day; as two rival factions play structured war games without adult supervision, little happens that Lord of the Flies wouldn't already have led you to expect.

Next, the DPJ would have to clarify its policy platform (necessarily a fraught process, given its faction-ridden internal structure and lack of ideological unity) and assert control over a civil service that has become used to working with the LDP.

Predicting the sizes and compositions of the resulting factions, given the structure of the social interaction network before the split, attracted a lot of attention.

Within this rigid structure, sociopolitical factions developed.

Vertical protection is pivotal in the inner structure of factions (Walder 1986).

Vane made an impassioned speech that brought him to the front of his faction, claiming episcopacy (the governing structure of the Church of England) was a corrupt doctrine "hastening us back again to Rome".

Under this governing structure, all the factions in the diverse County would have an equal say.

Hong Kong's pro-democracy protest organizers need to rethink their strategy and bring disparate factions together under a new structure to help lead the movement forward, a prominent left-wing lawmaker from the semiautonomous city urged this week.

Incompetent rulership, faction-ridden bureaucracy, a mismanaged tax structure, and domination by eunuchs toward the end of the Eastern Han first prompted widespread protests by the Imperial University students.

Once velayat-e faghih ('rule of the jurist') was established as the structure of the Islamic Republic, factions in the 1980s coalesced around economic policy and the question of whether Iran should foment revolution abroad.