Sentence examples for faction under the from inspiring English sources

François Fillon, a former prime minister who is contesting his defeat in the leadership election, broke away from the UMP to set up his own faction under the unfortunate acronym, R-UMP.

The other K is Koichi Kato, who would also have been an important part of Mr Koizumi's government had he not already led an embarrassingly inept coup against Mr Mori, and ultimately the Hashimoto faction, last November.What Mr Koizumi has done is to unite the LDP's anti-mainstream forces against the Hashimoto faction under the banner of reform: change the LDP, change Japan.

When formulating the so-called plan, Chinese officials acknowledged that, compared to other countries, it had little knowledge of, or influence over, policy decisions made in Congress, which had a sizeable pro-Taiwan faction under the influence of a more established "China Lobby" run by the Kuomintang.

Speaker's Race Texas is now essentially a one-party state, and the real action is between factions under the Republican tent.

HERE is an attempt to portray various philosophical and political factions under the Republicans' big tent, taking account of the many overlapping concerns that unite them.

He encourages all factions under the conservative umbrella to put their differences aside and stop this "liberal nightmare" which threatens to destroy America.

Preeminent is the confrontation between the Arab factions, under the leadership of Sevilla (Ishbīliyah) and governed by the dynasty of the Banū ʿAbbād, and the Imazighen, presided over by Granada.

Yemen, having pulled back from the brink of war in 2011, is slowly embarking on a national dialogue aimed at reconciling its rancorous political factions, under the watchful eyes of Arab and Western monitors.

The clash occurred when Israeli soldiers, who conduct raids daily in Nablus, arrested Tayseer Khaled, a top leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, one of the factions under the P.L.O.

SADC hinted darkly at military intervention to return the ousted president, Marc Ravalomanana, to power.Seven months later, the same high-minded lot are celebrating an agreement between the various rival Malagasy factions under the auspices of SADC, with the AU, the UN and others all signing on.

The faction under which they fought, the al-Battar Brigade, was notorious for incessant suicide attacks and a merciless killing rampage after a takeover.