Sentence examples for faction which was from inspiring English sources

Popular beliefs state that Cofresí was influenced by the secessionist faction which was supporting Puerto Rico's independence from Spain.

On 23 May 1430 she was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction which was allied with the English.

The political scene in the aftermath of the Partition Sejm saw the rise of a conservative faction which was opposed to the Permanent Council, seeing it as a threat to their Golden Freedoms.

Swift concludes his sermon with: On the other side, some look upon kings as answerable for every mistake or omission in government, and bound to comply with the most unreasonable demands of an unquiet faction; which was the case of those who persecuted the blessed Martyr of this day from his throne to the scaffold.

The clan is allied with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, which is based in the West Bank.

It is, like his earlier masterpiece "The Executioner's Song," a work of "faction," which is Mailer's term for his hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Then there is a second faction, which is concerned less by parallels with the Soviet Union than by a perceived replay of the Japanese challenge.

Mr. Muhammad now leads a rival Taliban faction, which is also based in Afghanistan and has been attacking Pakistani border posts.

Hamas, which took over Gaza in 2007, and Mr. Abbas's Fatah faction, which is now concentrated in the West Bank, have still not reconciled.

Mr. Said, the sociologist, said of the prospect of elections, "What is missing is the more liberal, secular, democratic faction, which is not very organized".

The rebel faction, which is led by David Yau Yau and based on the Murle ethnic group, has been in revolt against the government of president Salva Kiir since 2010.