Sentence examples for factional ends from inspiring English sources

And it is a countermajoritarian limitation, inasmuch as it precludes the pursuit of purely factional ends rather than the genuine public good--a public good that, in Founding-era thought, consisted in securing individual rights.

In Transvaal several warring little polities were established, and factional strife ended only in the 1860s.

As is so often the case, in any parliament, it is hard to discern precisely where factional one-upmanship ends and an honest devotion to the national interest begins.

The Hamas takeover followed a brief but bloody factional war that ended with the routing of the Fatah forces loyal to Mr. Abbas.

After the death of Osei Tutu in either 1712 or 1717, a period of internal chaos and factional strife was ended with the accession of Opoku Ware (ruled c. 1720 50), under whom Asante reached its fullest extent in the interior of the country.

Mao was the last Chinese leader whose death would unleash a personalised factional battle that could end in violence.

Like Disraeli more than a century earlier, the 36-year-old Hague the youngest Conservative leader in 200 years—set out to reform the party's organization, reestablish its appeal outside traditional Conservative strongholds, rebuild its image, and end the factional strife that had plagued the Conservatives during their last years in power.

With the collapse of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla insurgency and an end to factional fighting within the government, tens of thousands of landless farmers now find themselves in competition with business interests and military officers for former battlegrounds and minefields.

Before his jailing for planning attacks that killed five people in the second Palestinian intifada, he was a favourite of Israeli peace activists.Some still think he is the one leader capable of ending the factional struggles that have raged since Hamas ousted Fatah in last year's election, and thus of being an effective partner for peace talks.

Main image: Palestinians at a rally to demand an end to factional divisions, at an April 2014 rally in Gaza City.

Kruger successfully proposed Schoeman for the post of national Commandant-General, hoping to thereby end the factional disputes and foster unity, but Schoeman categorically refused to serve under this constitution or Pretorius.