Sentence examples for factional advantage from inspiring English sources

What follows will doubtless prompt howls of hostility, but what the hell: the big unions wield truly clunking fists, often seeming much more interested in short-term factional advantage than the development of ideas.

This is the grand drama now being played out in the Arab world — the deeply sincere youth-led quest for liberty and the deeply rooted quests for sectarian, factional, class and tribal advantage.

Gordon Brown, pondering how he is going to square away an increasingly factional left and renew New Labour, has the advantage of a clean sheet.

Bijapur was unable to take full advantage of the opportunities for expansion to the south during the 1570s because of factional disputes among the nobles, as well as Golconda's interests in the Vijayanagar-controlled areas.

Others were notoriously factional.

Factional competition within the party increased.

Factional disputes rent the board.

But they saw themselves as factional rivals.

That has stirred up old factional feelings.

Almost immediately, factional fighting broke out.

And here opinions divide on factional lines.