Sentence examples for faction with a from inspiring English sources
Hamas ended more than 40 years of unchallenged leadership by Fatah, the more secular faction, with a victory in a parliamentary election in 2006.
With Mullah Muhammad Omar acting only as the Taliban's spiritual head, the opportunity has emerged for an enterprising faction with a driven commander — as was the case with Mr. Duan — to unify or dominate the divided Afghan insurgency.
Shortly after the Iranians were captured, a video was released by a militant faction, with a rebel leader saying, "They are Iranian thugs who were in Damascus for a field reconnaissance mission".
Amy Allison is a longtime mainstay of New York City's small but determined country-rock faction, with a high voice that sounds more suited to a mountain cabin than to urban tenements.
And even in liberal-democratic countries, state authorities do act as "arbiters of truth" in all sorts of ways, for example in their education policies.But the USCIRF paper is certainly right to stress that blasphemy laws can become a deadly weapon in the hands of an individual or faction with a personal or political grudge.
Whether he replaces them with "quiet revolutionaries", as Mr Nakagawa puts it (including presumably himself), or instead rewards each party faction with a Buggins' turn will give a strong sense of Mr Fukuda's resolve.For now, colleagues many critical just weeks ago give him the benefit of the doubt, and say his mood is ebullient.
After the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Clinton signed what some former U.S. officials called a "covert action finding" authorizing CIA operations against al Qaeda, then regarded as a marginal Islamic militant faction with an eccentric, Saudi-born leader.
The risks of a hijack by cliques and factions with a particular axe to grind are high.
Supports Darwin He is a Baptist minister, and has split the evangelicals into warring factions with a book called The Lost Message of Jesus, in which he rejected the idea of what theologians call penal substitutionary atonement to explain the crucifixion of Christ.
Pop factions with a will to conquer, like teen pop and hip-hop, feed off the the attention, but subcultures that prize authenticity, like alt rock and rave, begin to act like children with abusive parents.
Ditto Yemen, a hodge-podge of tribes and factions with a dangerous al-Qaeda presence.Until Mr Obama gives his larger speech on the significance of the Arab awakening, much of the White House's focus will continue to be on developments on the ground in Libya.
