Sentence examples for factional clashes from inspiring English sources

In the first half of May, fierce factional clashes left about 50 dead in Gaza.

But the new cease-fire appeared to be taking hold, despite factional clashes before noon.

There have been relatively few factional clashes in this upsurge of unrest with the government keen to avoid confrontation.

Leaders of the Brotherhood, hoping to avoid the kind of factional clashes that killed 10 people in December, urged supporters to stay away from the square.

With the party deeply split over a number of hot-button issues, there were fears that the convention, which eventually nominated Barry Goldwater for President, would disintegrate into factional clashes.

Tens of thousands of South African blacks stayed away from work today to commemorate the deaths of 515 people in factional clashes over the last two weeks that have drawn widespread accusations of police bias against the African National Congress.

Experts said that what began as a factional clash between Marxists had drifted toward tribal warfare in Southern Yemen, which is on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula and has traditionally been the home of feuding mountain and Bedouin tribes.

Four of those killed were victims of black factional fighting in eastern Natal, where 5,000 blacks have died in clashes in the last five years.

As Hindus and Muslims clash and Mumbai braces for a strike, Sarita searches across factional lines for her physicist husband, Karun.

As Hindus and Muslims clash and Mumbai braces for a strike, Sarita searches — across factional lines — for her physicist husband, Karun.

Though the clashes were being portrayed in the Palestinian news media as a feud between families, they also took on a factional hue, since one of the families is identified with Hamas and the other with its political rival, Fatah.